Senior Analyst - 12 Month - FTC

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Job Description

Senior Analyst - The Sun

Location: London

Contract Length: 12 Months

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.

The Sun is Britain's largest newspaper which launched in 1969 with the slogan 'forward with the people', because that is what we believe in. We are a group of talented, dedicated, and creative people with a real passion for delivering real stories to our ever-growing audiences. Our newspapers and digital products include some of the most powerful storytelling, reaching over 30 million people each month. The Sun is more than a newspaper. It is an entertainer, a cultural reference point, and a finger on the pulse.

Your Team: You'll be joining the Analytics team to help maximise our relationship with the 30m+ monthly readers of The Sun, contributing to continued annual growth. We are at the forefront of innovative approaches to both data and customer experience, evidenced by the team recently winning 4 'best use of data' awards, living up to our vision of driving the business through data.

Your Role: You will add value by partnering with senior stakeholder groups across The Sun to drive customer behaviour and advise on how we can utilise our data to meet our objectives. You will work closely with teams including the Newsrooms, Product Development, Marketing, User Experience and Technology to provide innovative ideas and actionable insights to improve decision making, content commissioning and ultimately engagement and upsell.

Day to day you will:

• Act as the primary expert for all web analytics requirements, collaborating closely with stakeholders across The Sun, including Editorial, Product, Marketing, UX, and CRM teams.
• Proactively shape data-informed decision-making processes by delivering impactful insights and solutions.
• Lead the development of data products and reports using GCP BigQuery for SQL-based analysis and Tableau and Looker Studio for dynamic, interactive reporting and dashboards. Drive adoption and ensure outputs are actionable and accessible for diverse audiences.
• Provide strategic insights from large and complex datasets to influence key business areas such as Editorial direction, product commissioning, audience growth, and campaign performance.
• Design and implement scalable dashboards and reporting frameworks that enable stakeholders to monitor KPIs effectively and make real-time decisions.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate repetitive analytics workflows, leveraging tools and scripting to improve team efficiency.
• Mentor and develop junior team members, sharing best practices in SQL, data visualisation, and analytics workflows. Help refine their skills and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with the Analytics Manager to execute high-priority projects and support strategic initiatives, contributing to the long-term analytics roadmap for The Sun.

What we're looking for from you:

• Technical Expertise: Advanced proficiency in GCP BigQuery for SQL-based data manipulation, modelling, and large-scale dataset analysis. Strong experience with reporting tools such as Tableau and Looker Studio, including building and maintaining sophisticated dashboards and visualisations. Knowledge of Python to be able to decode and make amendments to existing code sets would be an advantage.
• Analytical Acumen: Proven ability to derive meaningful insights from complex datasets and translate them into actionable recommendations that drive business impact. Experience in analysing digital audience behaviour and understanding key performance metrics across web and mobile platforms.
• Stakeholder Engagement:Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex findings clearly to non-technical audiences. Confident in managing senior stakeholder relationships, facilitating discussions, and translating business challenges into analytical solutions.
• Leadership & Mentoring: Demonstrated experience mentoring junior analysts, ensuring they adopt best practices and develop their technical and professional skills. A team player who thrives on collaboration, consistently delivering high-quality work within deadlines.
• Curiosity & Innovation:A proactive problem-solver with a deep curiosity for understanding trends and identifying opportunities for growth and efficiency. Familiarity with emerging analytics tools and methodologies, applying them to improve processes and outputs.
• Automation & Efficiency: Expertise in automating analytics workflows to enhance efficiency, ensuring more focus on tackling complex and high-value challenges.

What's in it for you?:

• You'll work closely with the hugely passionate teams at The Sun, collaborating with their product, marketing and editorial teams.
• Learning and working within a large analytics team with varying backgrounds, experience and skills.
• Interact with diverse departments ranging from marketing, CRM, Product, Audience, Editorial, technical specialists to leading marketeers.
• We invest in our talent, supporting technical and soft skill development including access to LinkedIn learning.
• Competitive salary package and benefits.

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:

• 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 HarperCollins 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, News Is Out 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.