Junior Analyst

An opening has become available for a Junior Analyst to join our team here in Canary Wharf which will focus on maximising ad revenue and yield across the Reach Plc digital display and video ad inventory.

As a Junior Analyst within our team, you will be able to liaise with internal colleagues and external partners on a daily basis to been keen to learn and develop skills that drive up revenues and performance for all digital campaigns including those directly sold or programmatically sold.

This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, with wide exposure to the digital media and an exceptional opportunity to learn about the programmatic landscape.

Your career path would include promotion to a Business Analyst on the team or into a role across one of the many digital disciplines with the company including Ad Tech, Product or Ad Operations.

Who are we?

Reach Solutions is the team that brings together Reach's editorial output with media agencies and clients, to collaboratively create strong connections between our valuable audience, content and advertiser brands. Our role is to connect our advertising customers with 'Modal Britain', the mass majority audience that we best represent, entertain and inform, and on whose behalf we campaign.

Our creative approach enables us to develop tailored marketing solutions that utilise our unique National and Regional, Print and Digital portfolio of media products. Our solutions span many influential news brands which together reach 1 in 3 adults in the UK every week.

Our brands influence and connect with our important audience - those that can take niche and make it mass, turn a trend into the norm, and transform challengers into market leaders.

• Work as a part of the team to deliver insights around digital trading
• Deliver rate governance of commercial teams and deliver KPI data
• Become the teams expert in best practises around digital bookings
• Take on communications with internal colleagues around booking issues
• Deliver analytics reports to service Business Analysts and Executive
• Help to monitor our ad stack and query, investigate and resolve poor performing campaigns
• Help monitor performance across all platforms and markets
• Make recommendations drive revenues, yields and campaign optimisation
• Work with Ad Operations, Sales and Finance to provide insight as requested
• Organise and monitor inbound / outbound communications ensuring we hit SLAs
• Take responsibility to learn and be inquisitive

Essential skills and experience

• A basic knowledge of digital media
• Keen interest in the digital media marketplace
• Analytical and quantitative skills
• Creative problem-solving mindset
• Excellent Excel skills including pivot tables
• Basics of PowerPoint
• Thrive in a fast-paced team environment
• Able to maintain focus on KPI achievement and meeting deadlines
• Always employ a 'can do' attitude and be driven to achieve the team goal
• Organised, self-starting and great follow through of tasks and recommendations

Desirable skills and experience

• A-Level or above in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Technology, Science or similar
• Experience with a Media Owner, Ad Network or Trading Desk
• SQL, database creation experience, experience with Qlik, Tableau or similar
• Commercial background
• Experience working with online ad serving platforms
• Knowledge of ad serving and management of inventory
• Advanced Excel

In addition to competitive salaries, bonus structures (if applicable) 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 heath 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. Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the application deadline/closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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