Data Officer

Our client are a visionary communications partner, with over 130 people across 2 offices in Wolverhampton and Birmingham. They work with some of the world's biggest brands to create and deliver a wide range of digital marketing, brand development and creative communications for their clients. Working in an agile manner, they combine creativity with technology to develop richer more immersive connections between their client brands and their customers, in an always-on-world.

The Role

Our client is looking for a talented Data Officer to join their growing team, working for one of their most high profile clients. Ultimately, this role is responsible for managing the data that sits behind client's websites. Whilst initially this is a fixed term contract role, permanent opportunities may be offered to outstanding team members who meet the criteria.

We have a team of Data Officers who maintain data model spreadsheets that have been set up for their client in over 20 countries. The data models are regularly updated in line with the production updates, and these changes can affect the product availability together with the options (along with any associated rules for these) that are available for a for each product range within a country. Additionally, the team are responsible for maintaining pricing within the data models.

Day to Day Duties:

• Liaising with third party agencies on data requests
• Setting up new data models
• Amending existing data models with new content
• Communicating with senior members of the team on data modelling issues
• Checking and amending data discrepancies
• Solving issues for clients and third party agencies

Full training will be provided for successful candidates.

About you

Ultimately, they're looking for a highly motivated, focused and hardworking individual who'll thrive in a fast-moving office environment. Someone who wants to be part of a team, with a desire to do well.

Additionally, you will have the following skills and attributes:

Essential:

• Excellent working knowledge of Excel (which is used for the data modelling).
• IT literate, ability to pick up new software intuitively.
• Excellent numeracy and literacy skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to assess large sets of information, solve problems and provide feedback.
• Good attention to detail / high degree of accuracy.
• Logical approach and good analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Desirable:

• Advanced understanding of Microsoft Excel, including use of formulas, macros and VLOOKUPs.
• Previous experience/education in database analysis
• Previous experience working within an agency and/or with clients
• Basic HTML experience

Other requirements:

• Due to the nature of the work, from time-to-time, there may be the requirement to work late or over the weekend.
• From time to time you may also be asked to attend training / workshop sessions as part of your role.
• As you gain experience, you may be given the opportunity to train new staff as part of your role.

How to Apply

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