We're looking for an Analyst to join our team in London as part of our Data and Insights function.

Your Role:  You will deliver business actionable insights to help the business make informed decisions. Alongside developing BI capabilities into Lions business.  You will work closely with the Awards, Content, Advisory teams to unlock the commercial potential of the rich data held by Lions.

You will create both insight/analysis and will work to create a foundation to create BAU and new insight for Lions and contribute to the development of new products and deepen customer engagement. You will contribute to the development of original IP that fuels our content, membership and marketing as well as fuelling commercial and advisory products.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide actionable insight and deliver the business objectives, combining various data sources to provide analysis of customer and product behaviors and overall business trends
• Enable insight-powered customer engagement by collating and analysing information from a wealth of data and providing a clear coherent story - outputs may be presentation decks, dashboards.  Presenting insights to key stakeholders
• Using your strong investigative skills, interrogate and interpret data and communicate insights and recommendations on a range of business lenses
• Develop analysis and transform data from multiple sources to obtain a unique insight for the business.
• Help teams make the best content by building understanding trends in advertising and marketing, communicating complex results/techniques in a way that is easy for a variety of stakeholders to understand
• Proactively troubleshoot issues in data accuracy in both the database environment and within reports.
• You are an advocate and ally for diversity, equity and inclusion OR You are a connector, working hard to ensure people and projects are not inadvertently siloed or silenced

Your Experience

• Experience generating insight/analysis in a commercial environment, for example working in Marketing, CPG (FMCG), Retail, Banking, Consulting, B2B etc.
• Highly numerate and excellent attention to detail, sound grasp of analysis and modeling and statistics techniques
• Knowledge of MS Excel and Google product,
• Experience in SQL, BigQuery and Looker
• Experience in manipulating large data sets, handling and interpreting quantitative data and mining data from multiple sources
• Experience collaborating with other people, both technical and non-technical and
• Excellent communication skills, able to simply communicate complex analysis
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and adapt to shifting priorities and work calmly and with accuracy under pressure
• Experience of working with Google Analytics and Salesforce Data

If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At Ascential, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.

Who are we?

Ascential takes the world’s leading brands to the heart of what’s next for their industries.

We do this through our events, intelligence products and advisory services. Our 700+ people serve a global customer base from more than 100 countries in the large and growing Marketing and Financial Technology sectors.  Ascential is part of the Informa Group.. Find out more here: ascential.com

Why Choose Us?

Two divisions. Three continents. One great culture - we want working for Ascential to be the best career move you’ve ever made.

Ascential is a people-powered company, and we’re committed to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion. We publish an annual DEI Report, setting out our goals and progress. We invest in Employee Groups including Able to Thrive, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and Empower Women’s Network. And our inclusive recruitment practices and early talent programmes help us to bring curious, passionate people from every walk of life into our team.

We’re committed to ensuring that the impact of our business on our environment - and the communities we operate in - is a positive one. That means making sure that each event we run is the most sustainable it’s ever been. We also default all of our pension plans to sustainable options, so that our people’s savings are invested in ways that help rather than hinder our planet.

Helping people to connect and drive progress isn’t a business-only goal. We know that the world is a better place when we lead with heart, so we support charitable causes that make a difference. We provide opportunities to give back through Volunteer Days and our charity partnership with Media Trust.

We value output, not hours. Most of our roles ask for 1-2 days a week in your nearest office. But if that’s not possible for you, let’s talk. Flexible work conversations are actively encouraged here.

Only you know what’s most important to you. That’s why we offer a benefits and wellbeing package that you can tailor to your needs. Some of these include:

• 25 days of holiday per year  - with an option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
• Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Access to either our commission, bonus or profit share schemes, dependent on the role
• Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
• Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
• Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options

We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

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