Analytics Implementation Team Manager

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Job Description

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-platform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

The Team: Data Technology is a passionate group of data scientists, engineers, and experts who use machine learning and data to enhance the digital product, marketing, and advertising experience across our many brands. We build innovative tools for our newsrooms and ensure the ethical and effective use of data.

Our award-winning initiatives include James, which powers content discovery for Times and Sunday Times subscribers (Best Use of Analytics at the Loyalty Awards, Best Commercial Use of Data, and second place globally at INMA), and INCA, our suite of tools to power workflows and aid decision-making in our newsrooms (Best Technical Innovation at the Drum's Online Media Awards).

Our team works with a modern cloud stack, including GCP and AWS, multiple Python, deep learning, and cloud-based tools and frameworks for machine learning, specialising in natural language processing. We also use React, GraphQL, Node, and D3 for developing APIs, flexible front-end product components, and data visualisation.

Your Role: We are looking for an Analytics Implementation Team Manager to run the team responsible for the design and implementation of digital analytics solutions for News UK media properties including thetimes.co.uk, thesun.co.uk, dreamteamfc.com, sunsavers.co.uk amongst others along with their associated mobile applications.

The properties are built on a diverse set of technologies including traditional HTML websites, one-page HTML applications, native mobile applications as well as off-platform technologies such as Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

Reporting to the Principal Data Implementation, this role presents a diverse set of challenges to ensure we effectively deliver quality information to the range of Data Technology products, managing a group of multi-skilled Analytics Implementation specialists.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with a team Project Manager and Business Administrator to ensure priority tasks are completed, to an acceptable standard - managing five Implementation engineers, 3 UK based and 2 in Bangalore.
• Technical ownership data provision to key analytics and activation platforms, including GA4, in house endpoints, marketing platforms and more - ensuring our tag management system is implemented correctly across all of News UK's websites and mobile applications
• Liaising with the wider Technology team and senior stakeholders to ensure that our implementation is performant, fit for purpose, in line with data governance constraints, prioritised to business requirements and all work is effectively communicated.
• Keep up to date with industry developments and best practise in tag implementation, providing subject matter expertise to the Data Technology team and the business

What We're Looking For:

• Experience in designing and implementing large, complex digital analytics solutions that span web and mobile apps from start to finish.

• Team leadership experience, strong organisational ability, ability to converse on a technical level with other engineers, product managers, business analysts etc
• Experience working within an agile environment
• Expert level knowledge of and experience using premium tag management tools such as Tealium, Ensighten, Signal
• Expert level knowledge of configuring Google Analytics Accounts and Properties and their Custom Dimensions and Metrics (or similar package equivalents). Understanding of marketing platform integration
• Experience in working with consent constraints, CMP tools, and how they need to be applied across a range of use cases
• Working knowledge of analysing hit level data from web analytics and similar systems, preferably in a SQL environment
• Working knowledge of data from related systems such as CRM, DMPs, CDP, Ad Servers, Experimentation platforms
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

If you think you have what it takes but don't tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone's potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We are News UK Technology: using technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of media and storytelling. We keep people at the heart of our business through value-driven and inclusive practices enabling our staff to grow and thrive. As such, we are proud members of Tech Talent Charter UK with 34% of our Tech roles filled by gender minorities. News UK Tech is an award-winning team, winning Team of the Year at the UK Business and Innovation Awards, 2023.

Life at News: Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits:
Some of our benefits include:
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
Thriving employee networks supporting colleagues to embed and grow, including women in technology, parenting, wellbeing, GenZ, NewsIsOut and faith-oriented groups.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.