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Your Role: As a Data and Insight Apprentice you will join our Times Media data & insights team. You will support our editorial and marketing teams with best in class customer insight and analysis. You will represent the voice of our readers, supporting key business decisions with rich and actionable customer intelligence.

Day to day:

• You will learn how to effectively harness the sources at our disposal (spanning customer research, market trends and digital engagement behaviour) to become a trusted point of contact for our brands, understand how audiences are engaging with our content, platforms and products.


• Assist in analysis and delivery of regular audience profiling and reporting. Responding to ad hoc questions from stakeholders and managing relationships with insight agencies.


• You will add value to our titles by increasing understanding of customer feedback, behaviour, product and content performance.


• You will work closely with teams including the Newsrooms, Customer Experience, Marketing and Product Development to provide actionable insights to improve decision making, content commissioning and ultimately acquisition, engagement and retention.


• Utilising both our internal reader panels, work with external research partners and industry data to create engaging and informative insight for presentations


• Supporting decision making by understanding audience behaviour, and building dashboards to help stakeholders utilise the full data sets available to us. Alongside this, you will be telling compelling stories using data.
  
  Do you like solving problems? Are you inquisitive? Are you interested in researching consumers, brands and markets? Do you enjoy working with data? Do you want to study while gaining experience and a salary? This might be the role for you …, GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths at grade 4 (equivalent to a C) or above


• A keen interest in the media industry.


• The energy & enthusiasm needed to quickly learn about News UK as a business, our products and our culture.


• An analytical approach and the ability to quickly learn to use insight, data visualisation and behavioural analytics tools. An eye for accuracy, with a curious mindset connecting the dots between various pieces of information.


• Good communication and interpersonal skills.


• Experience of using Excel/Google Sheets, Word/Google Docs and Powerpoint/Google Slides.
  
  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 Research and Data Analysis.


• What's your favourite medium to consume news? What do you like about it?


• The Times is a digital subscription, needing to pay a monthly fee to access the content. What do you think are the barriers for consumers to deciding to pay for a subscription with us?


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 want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.