Insight Associate Nottingham, England
Job description
About us
SMG is one of the most exciting growth companies in the UK today. Home to three award winning agencies, Capture, Lobster and Threefold. At SMG, our people are at the heart of everything we do and are our biggest asset. We are proud to provide opportunities for fast career growth, recognising and rewarding great work, and doing this within an inclusive, highly flexible, and innovative environment.
We are dedicated to support our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We’re have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised as 2nd in Best Companies marketing and media's best agencies to work for, and we’ve just received our 3 star accreditation from Best Companies, making us a World Class company to work for.
Across the group, we have a shared mission to lead connected commerce marketing.
Read a summary of what each of our agencies do here!
The role
We are looking for an Insight Associate to join our Boots team and help create, track and analyse in-store and digital campaign evaluations that provide strategic value to our clients. You will assist in the creation and delivery of insightful media performance reports that lead to the creation of industry leading campaigns and drive innovative projects forward.
What you'll be doing
We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:
- Working within a small team to create, track and analyse in-store & online campaigns.
- Extracting, cleansing, and formatting data so that it is ready for analysis.
- Running analysis on a large volume of campaigns balancing speed and efficiency with 100% data accuracy.
- Providing clear recommendations from these evaluations which will help clients gain actionable insights for future campaigns.
- Being the 'go to' person across the team for all things related to our in-house platform Plan-Apps with regards to evaluations and leveraging its data to uncover trends and insights.
- Communicating effectively with client teams across media allocation and evaluations providing support across all things data & insight.
What you'll need to have / be
- Strong numeracy skills and ability to interpret complex data and advanced excel skills with the ability to create complex formula.
- Ability to visualise and explain data to a non data savvy audience.
- Experience working with analytical tools such as Google Analytics and PowerBI is preferable.
- An understanding of the commerce marketing landscape is preferable.
- The ability to adapt to an agile working environment with clear organisation and prioritisation skills to manage workload effectively.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders.
P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.
The best bits
Here at SMG we are dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...
Generous discretionary bonus scheme
️ £1,200 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions
£500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development
Free headspace subscription
4pm Friday finishes all year round
Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year
The process
- We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.
- There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.
- We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.
Helping you shine
We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us. You can either let us know on your application form or contact the people team to discuss how we can help on [email protected].
SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer
We are fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and ensure all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of our communities and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. More information on what we are doing can be found here.
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