Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
**This role is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract**
As a Senior Analyst in the Strategic Insight team within Sky Media, you’ll work on influential projects ranging from supporting the development of our industry-leading advertising products to helping to redefine the industry standard for measurement of TV advertising delivery.
What you'll do:
- Support Sky Media’s strategic transformation programme across topics such as planning, measurement and optimisation.
- Help to drive the development of industry leading products such as: CFlight, the industry’s first cross-platform, unified representation of ad campaign exposures across all platforms and screens in the UK and One Campaign, a ground-breaking project to simplify the selling and delivery of campaigns across multiple viewing platforms.
- Support integration of digital platforms across our portfolio of products
- Develop close relationships with partners across the business to secure their engagement and support
- Liaise with external consultants in the development and evaluation of methodologies.
- Partner management: managing expectations on project and reporting deliverables, regular communication on progress and achievements, engaging in training sessions for the sales teams and presentations to the wider Sky Media organisation.
What you'll bring:
- Commercial competence – adept at planning and balancing short and longer-term objectives in your decision making.
- Experience of working with very large datasets using analytical tools and languages such as SAS, SQL, BigQuery, Python, etc.
- Experience of building predictive models and documenting and deploying them for operational use.
- Qualifications (or experience that has brought you to degree standard) in a numerate subject such as statistics, mathematics, econometrics, operational research etc.
- Partner management experience with negotiation and influencing skills, having the confidence to interact at all levels of an organization.
- Project management - experience of delivering projects end to end.
- Familiarity with Sky’s content, platforms and advertising propositions and previous exposure to viewing data would be advantageous, as would an understanding of digital advertising.
Team Overview
Sky Media
Sky Media is the advertising sales arm of Sky, offering businesses of all shapes and sizes an exciting array of opportunities on TV, online and on the go. Reaching over 95% of the UK population, Sky Media represents all of Sky’s channels and sites including Sky Sports, Sky News, Sky One, Sky Cinema, Sky Arts, Sky Atlantic and Sky Witness. Sky Media also sells on behalf of a range of renowned broadcasters and channels including Channel 5, Discovery, National Geographic, MTV, FOX, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.
The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
- Access to NOW, for the TV you love all in one place!
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Your office base:
Osterley:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon!
Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, So we're happy to discuss flexible working.
And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.
Why wait?
Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.
To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.
Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.