Data Analyst – Evening Standard Intelligence Team

About us

The Evening Standard is an iconic London brand, recognised as setting the agenda in politics and business, as well as being first with lifestyle content, major news and sports stories.

The newspaper is the UK’s largest quality daily and online it has one of the fastest growing audiences in the UK. It provides brands and marketers with an unparalleled gateway to London's high-value audiences through digital, print, social and events. ES Magazine, Homes and Property and ecommerce platform ES Best are all market leading in their fields, and add to the compelling Evening Standard portfolio.

We are a business proud of our history but firmly set on a future that is focused on growing audiences and revenue with a digital first approach.

 

The role and team

The Data Analyst role is key to ensuring that the commercial team are sufficiently equipped to deliver maximum revenue return for our business as the digital strategy evolves across Evening Standard platforms.

This specialist area requires detailed knowledge of Insight and Data processes and systems that bring data to life in an engaging manner to support the commercial team in the monetisation of the brand.

This role provides a vital link between the established commercial data team, editorial data and the Insight team, providing insights on audiences, subscriptions and behaviours that will be incorporated into the wider commercial brand narrative.

At all times it will be necessary to work across various teams and disciplines to ensure that there is a solid connection between our strategic goals and firm market and brand data. Input will be required across a broad range of activities e.g. sales pitches, Events, Industry bodies, audiences and multimedia market info.

You’ll join a friendly, supportive team which is currently working remotely. The role offers a competitive salary for the right candidate with a range of benefits.

 

About you

• You will have media research experience (press and online desirable) either within a media owner or advertising/media agency and enjoy working with data
• Excellent data skill with advanced Excel knowledge and preferably SQL, R or Python skills
• Experience or awareness of Nielsen/TGI/PAMCo/ComScore/DMP platforms/Google analytics/Adobe analytics and other information sources and the proven ability to mine data for insights, as well as creating your own useful and usable reports
• A good knowledge of the media agency landscape and experience working with commercial teams on pitches and business development
• Passion for everything data and insight, with an eagerness to understand consumers and identify and share compelling stories
• An understanding of the research opportunities that exist to help to identify and build those stories
• Ability to communicate information clearly and concisely, whether verbally or in written formats
• Creative and commercial thinker; proactive in identifying projects that lead to commercial growth
• Experience of ad effectiveness work and questionnaire writing is desirable
• Able to work independently to a deadline, often managing multiple projects simultaneously and demonstrating a strong work ethic

 

Expected behaviours

• Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focused way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
• Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
• Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
• Responsive Delivery - Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.

 

We have great benefits for all employees including:

• 25 days increasing by 1 day per annum at the start of each holiday scheme year (October) to a maximum of 30 days per annum and public holidays are given on top of annual holiday allocation.
• Private healthcare
• Cycle schemes.

 

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a covering letter and salary expectations to philip.mcmullan@standard.co.uk.

Due to the high volume of applications, we will only be contacting candidates who have been shortlisted and progressed through to the next stage.

Evening Standard is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. If you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please do not hesitate to advise us accordingly.