Data Analyst

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**:
As a Data Analyst at NZME, your role is critical for driving digital revenue growth and enhancing user engagement. Utilising NZME's extensive digital audience and online data, you'll provide expert data analysis, modelling, data-driven products, dashboards, and insights to help guide decision-making for our marketing, sales, and editorial teams.

**HOW YOU’LL DO IT**:
**Data Collection and Analysis**:

- Collect and analyse data from various sources to provide insights to NZME teams for informed decision-making
- Identify patterns, trends, and insights that contribute to digital revenue growth and improved audience targeting
- Write SQL queries to combine and manipulate data in our data warehouse to provide meaningful and actionable data to the stakeholders
- Develop and maintain data models to facilitate data analysis and reporting.

**Reporting and Development**:

- Create and maintain data visualisations and dashboards to provide actionable insights to stakeholders
- Build, optimise and maintain our data driven audiences for our sales teams
- Develop and maintain new data products and APIs to drive digital revenue and improve user engagement.

**Strategy and Decision Making**:

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement data-driven strategies that drive revenue growth, improve user engagement, and enhance the customer experience
- Communicate data insights and findings to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis to inform strategic decisions and initiatives.

**Continuous Improvement**:

- Continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of data-driven initiatives and provide recommendations for improvements
- Stay up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to data
- Proactively identify and address data quality issues or inconsistencies.

**ABOUT YOU**:
**Background and Competencies**:

- Tertiary qualified - statistics, applied mathematics, computer or data science.
- 3+ years of data and web analytics experience preferred.
- Digital media and advertising background or experience preferred.
- Strong SQL skills - Bigquery or other data warehouse preferred.
- Experience with statistical programming languages advantageous.
- A critical thinker with an analytical and curious mind-set with the ability to explain complex problems and solutions to business users.
- Experience with BI products such as Google Data Studio and Power BI required.
- Experience with Google Tag Manager or other tag management platforms is advantageous.
- Experience with data transformation tools such as Dataform or DBT is advantageous.
- Experience with the Google Cloud Platform preferred.
- You’ll be an effective communicator and will keep managers and colleagues updated on all necessary information.
- Knowledge of agile working principles will be advantageous.

**WHAT'S ON OFFER**:
On offer in return is a high-performing team of the best in the business who pride themselves on being at the top of their game. We offer a culture second to none; an environment where you’re encouraged to bring your whole self to work, where progression and development is valued and innovation and fun the norm. Here is a real opportunity to grow and develop your skills, take ownership of a role and in turn your future career.

In the digital and data teams, we embrace and endorse an agile work methodology, encouraging cross-functional teams to optimize, automate and learn together. You will bring passion to the craft to the team that will encourage and enable professional development of your direct reports and peers.

Your workplace will be in central Auckland in a modern well-equipped office that boasts radio studios, newsroom hubs, multiple breakout areas and our popular iHeart lounge that hosts a variety of internal events. You’ll have flexible work options, a range of discounted products and services, development opportunities and be a key member of an awesome data team. Plus, we have an amazing barista onsite for those that love their caffeine fix.