Insight Analyst - #1699238

The Role

The Insight Analyst sits within the Data & Insight team and will be supporting business decisions and future strategy across the business, using advanced analytical techniques, external & internal data sources and sector insight. This role supports the senior leadership in the assessment of the changing external business environment and the identification of opportunities and threats.

You`ll work closely with the operational, development and commercial teams, understanding their objectives and the decisions that they need market intelligence (on the higher education and student accommodation sector) or internal insight (on students and employees) to inform.

You will manage the data sources, undertake the analysis, identify key themes and trends, and present it back to the business as a simple story that can lead to action.

What You`ll Be Doing

• Collaborate with stakeholders around the business to understand their requirements from Data & Insight, and ensure you drive insight in business decisions
• Work with the Analytics team to scope and deliver projects
• Analyse multiple data sources to identify key themes, trends and insight
• Visualise and tell a story with data
• Identify the big picture story when analysing data and relate findings back to business objectives
• Manage the relationships with our suppliers of market data and identify new sources of data
• Be an advocate for Insight across the business, supporting the Senior Strategic Insight Manager to improve use of insight across the business, providing help for analysts and researchers in various teams with their insight and analysis.
• Undertake quality assurance checks to identify any data quality issues
• Become an expert in the HE and PBSA sectors - using desk research and tracking news, government policies and updates to keep the business up to date with what`s happening in the sector
• Manage the customer experience measurement programme, developing an understanding of the student experience
• Perform advanced analytics to help the business better understand the purpose-built student accommodation market and our place within it
• Be part of the development of high-quality analytical models to inform business decisions
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Work as part of multi-capability teams to deliver wider projects
• Actively sharing insight, knowledge and analysis across the business
  
  

What We`re Looking for in You

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills - ability to tell a story through data and communicate trend analysis in an innovative and engaging manner.
• Proven experience using Tableau, Power BI or similar
• Experience of coding languages to query data (e.g. SQL, Python, Pyspark, R)
• Self-motivated, proactive and curious
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Experience of gathering stakeholder requirements and presenting technical findings to non-technical audiences.
• Experience and evidence of adding business value through analysing data and insight
• Ability to convey analytical findings through effective data visualisation.
• Able to prioritise work, meet deadlines and ensure data is presented accurately and clearly.
• Comfortable working as part of a multi-capability team for different projects.
• Passionate about the wider sector with a desire to keep up to date with government policy and news
• Able to work at pace and autonomously when provided with relevant tools and direction.
• Beneficial:
• Experience of using data science or statistical analysis techniques.
• Experience of using structured and unstructured data (e.g. data warehouse/data lake).
  

What You`ll Get in Return

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!
  
  

About Unite Students

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.

People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

Room for Everyone

We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.

We are US.