Insight and Data Analytics Consultant – UK Part Time

Flock Associates, Ltd.
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Insight and Data Analytics Consultant– UK Part Time

Job Title: Insight and Data Analytics Consultant

Contract Type: Part-Time (3 days a week), 10-month Fixed-Term contract (Maternity cover)

Location: London, United Kingdom (hybrid)

We are a collaborative, supportive, pioneering, and high-performing global team who have a passion and purpose to support, inspire and transform the lives of marketeers at the world’s biggest brands. We help increase marketing effectiveness through better integrated marketing by fixing and fine-tuning our clients’ marketing resources, organisation structures and processes.

We are looking for a brilliant data consultant who is highly proficient in analysing data, utilising tools such as SQL databases, Excel, PowerBI and other related software. You will be responsible for leading the use of data to create insights and recommendations to support advice from our consultants and decision-making by our clients. You are passionate about the quality of your work, understand briefs and how to respond to them. You are a natural problem-solver, highly creative, love sharing and exploring ideas and have an imaginative and curious mind. You should be confident to communicate at all levels, obsessed about the detail, have a , proven team spirit, and a positive can-do attitude. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of marketing activities from a brand or agency perspective, or with business reporting on operations such as procurement and people .

We want to work with people who are:

  • Naturally collaborative and thrive in a flat and flexible organisation.
  • Thoughtful communicators, seeking to foster meaningful relationships across our community of diverse partners.
  • Caring and open to All. Those who are inclusive leaders, committed to learning, and leveraging our differences as strengths.
  • Pragmatic and Optimistic with energy and enthusiasm for what’s next shining through in everything they do.
  • Curious. Those who are courageous and use their deep business insights to cultivate innovation.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • In collaboration with Flock consulting teams, define and scope the effort required to deliver the data analysis necessary to meet clients’ desired outcomes
  • Collect, organise, summarise, and analyse data to support the delivery of client projects within agreed timeframes and hours
  • Analyse data from a variety of data sources including Flocks tools, surveys, financial and procurement data
  • Share data insights within and across projects to help consultants deliver valuable advice to clients
  • Collaborate with the Flock tools product team to increase the quality of data analysis, improve standard reporting and reduce effort across all projects by sharing best practices and learnings from projects, covering considerations such as survey design, benchmarking, and QA approaches
  • Assist data analysts on other client projects with troubleshooting and QA
  • Champion best practices in tool use and data collection to enable analysis and comparison using Flock’s marketing taxonomy
  • Display and present complex data and reports in a creative, simple, and understandable way
  • Translate complex data sets into data visualisations for use in dashboards and presentations
  • Ensure data integrity and security
  • Manage and respond to ad hoc queries and requests from stakeholders

Essential Skills for the role include:

  • 4+ years data analysis experience ideally with a focus on marketing / agency or business performance
  • Degree or equivalent practical experience – Ideally mathematics or science related
  • Exceptional reporting and analytics skills
  • High level of proficiency with Microsoft Suite (Excel, PPT, Teams, Outlook)
  • Mastery of PowerBI and ideally knowledge of other data visualisation tools e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, other
  • Familiarity with SQL
  • Natural drive for continuous improvement and operational excellence
  • High-level of attention to detail, creativity, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to communicate confidently and clearly and demonstrate strong listening skills
  • Confident to assess own effort required for analysis work and describe factors that may affect the estimate
  • Ability to multitask and prioritise to deliver work on schedule
  • Solutions-focused mindset
  • Excellent standard of written and spoken English

(Nice-to-have)

  • Familiarity with operational & financial data capture and analysis at large organisations involving many suppliers
  • Experience with quantitative and qualitative analysis of survey data
  • Experience using AI tools for data analysis, reporting or visualisation

What we offer:

  • Continuous formal / informal training to help acquire and build specialised skills.
  • Working with leading local and global companies
  • International and multicultural environment – we are a global consultancy
  • Dynamic and fun working environment

We are an equal opportunities employer – We welcome applications regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, political affiliation, family, or parental status.


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