Senior Online Analyst

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Senior Online Analyst
London, SE1
£Competitive

Team Overview

This is an exciting time to join our client. They're delivering vital work to help shape the communications services of today and tomorrow - from helping the UK be a world leader in 5G mobile, to driving investment in ultrafast broadband and maintaining the standards of broadcast content in the digital age.

Our client is increasingly working in the online space, across a number of areas. These range from regulating on-demand video to raising awareness of online harms, and looking at how people's media consumption and attitudes are changing. They also assess how firms in the ‘traditional' media and telecoms sectors are responding to the online challenges and opportunities.

To help our client to do this they are looking for innovative, passionate individuals who want to use their experience in the online sector to make a positive and tangible difference for everyone in the UK.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape our client's approach in an area of intense public policy focus so they can help make sense of the online world to benefit people and businesses in the UK.

Your expertise will help our client better understand how people in the UK use online services and applications, as well as the tools and technology they encounter when they do so. They also want to gain insight into how the evolving business models and strategic priorities of internet platforms could transform the communications sector.

If you think you can rise to this fast-moving challenge, our client wants to talk to you.

Requirements of the Role

- Develop and implement a strategy for tracking key metrics and monitor market developments in the online sector.
- Lead the collection of online data sets and devise new methods to source key metrics, building in checks to ensure that the data is accurate and robust and the methodologies behind datasets are documented.
- Codify and standardise our client's online data sets so that they can be easily updated, accessed and shared.
- Integrate and aggregate data from multiple sources, compiling them into digestible formats.
- Identify and understand the data that is publicly available from internet firms and the strengths and limitations of this data.
- Build relationships with internet firms, for example with data scientists, to develop and maintain an up-to-date understanding of the data they collect and the methodologies they use to analyse and use this data.
- Work with the market research team to ensure that the consumer research programme, including its media literacy research, is effectively tracking consumers' use of and attitudes towards online services
- Use data analytics and data visualisation tools to manipulate data and extract insight.
- Keep abreast of industry developments in online including market structures, company strategies and technological developments.
- Keep abreast of the public policy landscape in relation to online regulation, including industry responses.
- Develop and foster online expertise across the company's policy teams by providing tailored insights on online trends and developments.
- Play a leading role in the scoping, analysis and drafting of our client's annual report on how citizens and consumers are served by online services and applications.
- Engage with a wide range of projects to ensure our client's policy work is evidence-based and reflective of the latest industry developments.
- Present analysis in a concise, clear, and easily accessible way using graphs, charts, well-written text and presentations. Identify and understand the strengths and limitations of the data that is available from third-party suppliers and build relationships with these suppliers.

Skills, knowledge and experience

- Previous experience in the online sector, for example in working for an internet firm, or in a consultancy role focused on the online sector (4+ years of relevant experience)
- Deep knowledge of the online sector in the UK and globally, including the business models that underpin the major internet platforms and an understanding of the technologies that are transforming the online and wider communications sector.
- An understanding of the datasets available from online companies and third-party providers and their strengths and limitations.
- Interest in the public policy debate around regulation of the internet and a broad understanding and appreciation of the role of regulation in the communications sector.
- Excellent data analytical skills and experience of working with large and complex data sets.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel including advanced formulas and pivot tables.
- Proficiency in data visualisation tools and experience of presenting data in clear, concise and creative ways.
- Good attention to detail and experience in data validation and data quality assurance
- Strong written communication skills with experience in producing high quality analysis and insight for a range of different audiences
- Strong oral communication skills with experience in presenting complex data and analysis to non-specialist audiences
- Excellent organisational skills, with ability to manage and prioritise a range of work, projects and ad hoc requests

Desirable Skills / Experience

- Programming skills for advanced analytics such as VBA and Python.
- Capability in data analytical and visualisation tools such as Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau and Alteryx.
- Experience of how Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is applied by firms in the online sector.

Qualifications

- Degree or equivalent higher qualification

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Additional Keywords: Senior Online Analyst, Lead Online Analyst, Online Consultant, Online Sector Analyst, Senior Analyst, Analyst, Analysis.

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