Data Strategist - London, United Kingdom - Financial Times

Financial Times

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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The Role / Position Overview

The role of
Data Strategist will sit within the Ads Data Strategy team reporting to the Director of Advertising Data and BI.

It is a position that will suit somebody with 4+ years of experience working in digital advertising and marketing with a focus on the utilisation of data to inform client and product strategy and execution.

Our advertising customers and their agencies view the FT as an essential marketing platform for reaching some of the world's most influential and discerning audiences within a high quality, brand safe environment.

The creation of the team is in response to the increasing demand from those customers for more powerful audience intelligence underpinned by meaningful data and reporting.

The core objective of this team is to collaborate with Advertising Sales, Campaign Management, Market Research, Performance Marketing and the wider FT Data team to help identify which audiences, platforms and product mix work best for desired outcomes, providing consultancy to clients and agencies to maximise campaign impact.

Crucially, focus will shift in time from tactical digital advertising campaign support, toward the production of strategic outputs for use across all campaigns such as sector case studies, spend and outcome based targeting strategies, reader trends and dashboarding to support unique sector requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Production of reports and case studies, pulling, shaping and analysing data to inform digital ads and partner content business outputs and the products that underpin them
Work with sales teams to understand sector verticals, client business objectives and marketing strategies
Assist in the storage of outputs in a structured way within our CRM system so as to ensure shared visibility across all teams
Learn SQL a database query language that will allow you to access the FT's data sets for the purposes of assisting in reporting and analysis
Gain exposure to and training upon an array of BI and data tools in order to build solutions for our sales teams and customers
Get to grips with the available product set and the impact each product has on achieving campaign objectives
Understand the metrics used to measure campaign performance and how these can be influenced by targeting strategies

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Required Skills / Experience

Essential:

At least 4 years experience working in digital advertising, media or a comparable vertical
Significant experience of working directly with data and BI tools to produce actionable analysis, reporting and insight
Experience working with research based data outputs
A firm understanding of the principles that underpin ad and martech systems like adservers, DMPs, webservers and CMSs
A willingness and desire to learn SQL and data design principles
Selfmotivated and very proactive with ability to manage and follow up on multiple tasks simultaneously
Experience of working directly with sales teams and customers
High level of customer focus
Thorough, detail oriented, inquisitive, intellectually curious & innovative
The ability to collaborate and manage multiple stakeholders and their expectations
Communication skills
A commercially minded individual ability to understand the commercial imperatives behind the data needs
Creative thinking to help form appropriate campaign plans

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Desirable:

Significant exposure to BI tools such as Tableau, Chartio, Qlik, power BI, Looker etc
Looker and Big Query experience in particular are highly desirable
Experience working in around data programming o