Trading Analyst
- Recruiter
- Reach plc
- Location
- London, England
- Salary
- Competitive plus company benefits
- Posted
- 22 Jan 2019
- Closes
- 19 Feb 2019
- Ref
- 0000001611
- Contact
- Reach plc
- Sectors
- IT, Business Analysis
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
We are looking to recruit an individual who is a strong communicator, is highly numerate and has the ability to understand and interpret data to a high standard. It would be ideal for the successful candidate to have some previous experience in creating detailed monthly reports within a previous role.
We are Reach because it's what we do.
Every day our newsbrands - national and regional, in print and online - reach millions of people up and down the country. We are the UK's largest news publisher, with influential national newsbrands such as the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday People, Daily Record, and more than 100 distinguished regional titles.
Reach Solutions is the commercial arm of Reach PLC. We bring together our editorial output with media agencies and clients, to create strong connections between our valuable audience, content and advertiser brands.
We offer a range of advertising solutions for every business and budget, from digital ads optimised to target specific groups, to print ads designed to make an unmissable impression.
Our marketing solutions extend far beyond traditional advertising, as we also provide a comprehensive selection of digital marketing services ranging from business listings and paid search advertising to website design and video creation.
Last year we sold 540 million newspapers, and our network of over 70 websites provide 24/7 coverage of news, sport and showbiz stories, viewed by 110m unique browsers every month.
Key Responsibilities
- Analysis of available data, market intelligence, finance and market share giving insight to maximise the sales opportunity
- To work with relevant departments to ensure systems are developed to evolve with changing marketplace.
- To assist with forecasting and business planning.
- Work on Scenario planning to ensure we maximise trading deals and opportunity.
- Analyst on utilisation of all our platforms ie Digital, Inventions to maintain/exceed revenues from all our contracts/agency deals.
- Detailed analysts on our circulation of publications and pricing of packages/digital up weight.
- Report on revenue, yield and volume across the business and analyse this data.
- Create detailed monthly agency deal update reports.
- Work with Insight to analyse and monitor share within deals.
- Work with Insight to create Competitor analysis, Understand our marketplace and areas of growth.
- Monitor revenues on agency and client deals.
- Control, record and report on value taken through agency deals.
- Research competitor products and agency wins and losses through trade press.
- Analyse agency wins and losses and how this will impact spend with Reach Plc Solutions.
- Ensure the Trading Drive, monitoring systems, relevant dashboards and reports are updated with the latest information.
- Support trading team with presentations for client and internal meetings.
The Ideal Candidate
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel and Powerpoint.
- Numerical skills.
- Be a strong team player.
- Effective Organisational abilities.
- Ability to collate extracts from various systems.
- High level analytical skills with the ability to manipulate, analyse and interpret data.
- Ability to cope under pressure and to deadlines.
- Previous experience of Salesforce and NMR an advantage but not an requirement.
Package Description
In addition to a competitive salary, 25 days annual leave, and a contributory pension scheme, Reach plc have a wealth of flexible benefits on offer. These include holiday purchase up to ten days per year, childcare vouchers, cycle scheme, a technology scheme in conjunction with Curry's PC World, car scheme, health cash plan, employee loans and lots of high street discounts! Our business is fully committed to health and wellbeing in the workplace with an employee assistance programme and trained mental health first aiders across the business.
We are committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process. We will be reviewing applications as they are received so please don't delay in submitting your application.