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Are you curious and enjoy solving problems? Do you love working with data and working with a wide array of people? Would you like to earn a salary while gaining practical experience and studying? If so, this role could be perfect for you, allowing you to apply your new skills and knowledge to support one of the most dynamic departments at News UK.

Your Role: As a Data and Insight Apprentice you are taking a role within the Group Operations and Platforms Team. Focused on learning all the skills needed in a life of data, analytics and insight, you'll use these skills to help our group operations teams achieve the greatest result possible, particularly for the News Live Team, where you'll be spending a portion of your time. You will play a key role in producing in depth analysis of how we as a business are achieving all while getting to be part of the team creating industry leading events for staff, customers and business leaders alike. News Live is News UK's events division and is responsible for the conception, organisation and production of over 200 events per year for all News UK divisions including Times Media, The Sun and News Broadcasting. They are the team behind some of the Industry's biggest events: The Sun Who Cares Wins Awards, The Times CEO Summit and Virgin Radio Sunset Sessions.

Day to day:

• Respond to Analytics Briefs: With help from the wider GOP data functions, Support stakeholders by responding to their analytics requests. Analyse data to uncover insights and recommend revenue-generating opportunities based on content, audience behaviour, and relationships with big tech platforms like Apple, Google, and Facebook.

Data Processing with SQL: Learn and use SQL to manage and process data sets for clear reporting and analysis. Learn how to navigate and utilise data from our GBQ data warehouse.

• Present Findings: Learn to become an expert data-storyteller. Share interesting analytics findings with relevant teams, focusing on creating a holistic data story, being able to explain how and why the insights found are powerful from News UK.


• Build Dashboards: Learn to create dashboards that allow News UK staff to explore data on.


• Audience Research and Recruitment: Collaborate with the Marketing and Communications team to efficiently research and recruit new audiences for News UK events, expanding the B2B event audience database.


• Database Integration: Integrate new audience data with existing databases, such as Times Newsletters, to ensure comprehensive and up-to-date audience lists.


• Data-Driven Event Planning: Assist in identifying and informing the direction of future events based on data capture insights, working closely with the data team.
  
  Some experience or exposure to data analysis and reporting.


• Some spreadsheet skills, particularly in Excel or Google Sheets.


• Willingness to learn and quickly adapt to new tools such as Tableau, and Google Analytics.


• Confident in taking initiative and asking questions to clarify requirements.


• Diligent and considered approach to tasks with strong attention to detail.


• Good communication and interpersonal skills.


• GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths at grade 4 (C) or above.


• A keen interest in the media industry and enthusiasm for learning about News UK, its products, and its culture.
  
  At News UK we encourage every individual's potential, therefore rather than looking for specific experience we are looking for enthusiasm and drive.


As part of the online application process, we would like you to provide answers to our application questions:

• Tell us about yourself and why you are interested in a career in Data and Insight?


• Tell us about a time when you built an audience? How did you do it?


• Across all digital platforms which host news, which do you use the most and why?


Please note that we will be running the assessments in November 2024.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions


• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes


• 'Bikes for Work' scheme


• Physio/massage,


• Counselling



• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;


• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;


• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;


• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.