project analyst Manchester, England
Job description
About us
We are innovative, collaborative, data-driven, and our goal is to is to bring innovation thinking to the worlds of destination marketing and cultural tourism. We drive digital transformation in the cultural and tourism sectors by bringing together the capabilities needed to help organisations, partnerships and destinations be more visible, grow and thrive.
Our work environment includes:
- Modern office setting
- Growth opportunities
- Work-from-home days
Key Purpose and Role
You will play a key role in our digital transformation projects by bringing your project management and data analysis skills and experience to our team. You will manage the workflow platform for a major tourism project and use it to support and track the progress of over 450 business participants as they move through a digital transformation programme - measuring the impact of interventions on their digital maturity and informing the development of the programme. Experience with cloud-based task management systems such as Monday.com or Asana is essential, while experience with business intelligence platforms such as Power BI is highly desirable.
For the business
· Configure and manage software that meets our company’s internal project management and reporting needs
· Provide training and support to our company’s team members to ensure they are capable of using project management software and reports
· Contribute to the development of pitches for new work
· Write and present case studies about our work for networking events and publications
For Projects
The Project Analyst’s responsibilities include working closely with internal and external Project Managers to report effectively to stakeholders within the project. The Project Analyst’s responsibilities include carrying out analysis and evaluation of project effectiveness and status with key stakeholders. This will include monitoring the progress of some 400-500 businesses through their digital transformation journeys and analysing task or cost data using tools such as Power BI.
Roles and responsibilities of Project Analyst
· Configure and manage software that meets the operational and performance management needs of the project.
· Ensure the project management system provides an effective and efficient way to track, service and monitor project participant activity and progress.
· Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the system is meeting their operational and reporting requirements.
· Build reports for data delivery and easily understood presentation to clients.
· Manage quality and consistency of data, train users, generate reports and input data to support the project.
· Compile and populate performance reports and distribute to Senior Team.
· Use reporting and BI tools to highlight risks and opportunities for the project.
· Create reports for colleagues to help them make more effective decisions.
· Carry out project evaluation with key stakeholders using survey tools.
· Analyse feedback from project evaluation and feed recommendations and improvements back to project team.
· Update and maintain stakeholder records within the project management system and separate client-side CRM system
· Communicate with project team on a regular basis to ensure clean data for use across all areas of the organisation
· Demonstrate a complete commitment to the goals and mission of the project
Person Specification
· You should have a demonstrable track record of success in previous roles - experience working for a consultancy business and using cloud-based project management software such as Monday.com, Teamwork, or Asana.
· More importantly, you will be someone who really enjoys getting stuck into data and believes in the importance of maintaining well-structured, high quality data sets.
· You will be able to take a ‘brief’ and propose/create software solutions and processes that address business needs.
· You will need to be someone who gets satisfaction from being robust, methodical and thorough, and prides themselves on attention to detail and efficiency.
· We imagine you will be educated to degree level, although this is not essential as your experience will count more. You will have undertaken accredited courses and systems training however through your work.
Job Types: Full-time, Temp to perm
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee mentoring programme
- Free or subsidised travel
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester
Application deadline: 30/06/2023
