Senior Data Analyst

Summary

Join DC Thomson's Data Science & Insights team as a Data Analyst and oversee the design, creation, and analysis of core datasets for brands like The Beano and The Courier. You will partner with various teams to ensure data informs strategic decisions, evangelize self-service data analysis, build automated dashboards and reporting, enrich data models, and act as a data leader. This hands-on role requires expertise in SQL-based data modeling, cloud-based data warehouses, and delivering data projects. The position offers a remote-first work environment with occasional office visits, a generous benefits package, and opportunities for professional development. DC Thomson values collaboration, flexible working, and a supportive team environment.

Requirements

• SQL-based data modelling (including version control)
• Cloud-based data warehouses
• Evidence of delivering several data projects
• Complex analysis combining data from multiple sources
• Presenting analysis in an effective manner to senior leadership
• Developing analytics strategies to glean the most insight from data

Responsibilities

• Work alongside multiple functions: Partner with a variety of teams (such as: product, marketing and editorial) to ensure data is at the heart of all our strategic decisions
• Evangelise self-service data analysis: Inspire stakeholders to use data to tell the customer story and help them understand how data is key to learning from customers to create the best products
• Designing and building: Create magic through automated dashboards and reporting, thus, allowing stakeholders to seamlessly integrate data into their day-to-day work
• Enriching and creating data models: Ensure we are always using our data in the best way possible to maximise our insight
• Being a data leader in the business: Motivating and influencing senior leaders in the business to utilise insight and make data-driven decisions
• Maintaining our data governance: Ensuring stakeholders always have access to accurate up to date data

Preferred Qualifications

• Bring excellent communication skills and a love of working in a team
• Be an inspiring data leader in the company
• Challenge the reporting status quo to extract more insight
• Nurture the data-driven culture at DC Thomson
• Deliver accurate meaningful data to multiple stakeholders

Benefits

• A generous holiday allowance with the chance to buy more
• A pension contribution that stands out in the market (9.5% matched company contribution with a 6% contribution from the employee's side)
• All the health and wellbeing benefits you’d expect and some you wouldn’t
• The chance to work with smart and fun people on products that will bring joy to millions
• 34 days holiday
• Health Cash Plan
• Onsite Staff Gym
• Excellent Pension
• A competitive salary
• Many more staff discounts and benefits
• Remote-first team