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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 increasing our understanding of customer behaviour, product and content performance. 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:
- Deliver analysis to marketing stakeholders, driving business value through the adoption of recommendations.
- Develop and maintain reports, dashboards and compelling visualisations of business performance, translating data clearly to communicate insights to our stakeholders.
- Unlock insights from digital marketing performance data to deliver ROI, as well as customer engagement data through segmentation and behavioural indicators.
- Make recommendations which drive loyalty and improve retention to ensure the business is making data-led decisions on the drivers of churn.
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone who thrives in driving business value and action from your analysis, contributing to business meetings and capturing requirements to confidently present clear and compelling stories with recommendations. Also:
- Great communicator- proactively, clearly and regularly to influence a variety of stakeholders, being unafraid to stand up for your work and voice your opinions, keeping stakeholders updated on progress.
- Curiosity to learn more and creatively interrogate data, working with team leads to prioritise and then manage your own time to meet committed deadlines.
- You spot opportunities to automate analytics tasks, allowing you to focus on tackling and breaking down the more complex business problems.
- Great SQL knowledge to manipulate and process large data sets to enable concise reporting and analysis (through data warehouses like GBQ/AWS).
- Experience visualising data in a meaningful and actionable way (using tools like Tableau/Looker/Data Studio), pioneering new techniques.
- Good understanding of digital audience measurement, journey analysis and A/B testing methods, customer data and how to utilise them all together (using tools like Google/Adobe Analytics, Optimizely).
What’s in it for you?
- You’ll work with huge, passionate brands, getting the chance to interrogate and interpret big data sets (including multiple millions of rows of web interaction data collected daily).
- Working within a large analytics team; learning off of and collaborating with 20+ analysts with varying backgrounds, experience and skills.
- Interact with diverse departments ranging from creative content producers, 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 (full list available upon request).
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: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV 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 multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
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
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.
