BI Analyst, The Economist

Salary not provided

SQL

Tableau

Snowflake

Qlik

Junior and Mid level

London

2-5 days a week in office

International weekly newspaper

Job no longer available

International weekly newspaper

1001+ employees

PublishingPrinting

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

SQL

Tableau

Snowflake

Qlik

Junior and Mid level

London

2-5 days a week in office

1001+ employees

PublishingPrinting

Company mission

To take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experience building and enhancing Tableau workbooks
Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
Communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
High levels of energy, enthusiasm and passion to succeed in a dynamic environment
Hands-on experience working with Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server
Knowledge of best practice data visualisation techniques

Desirable

Experience working with subscription-based data sets and related metrics
Tableau certification
Experience of using Qlik Sense
Experience using Snowflake or SQL Server
Tableau Public profile

What the job involves

In this role, you will contribute key deliverables to help us to bring data to a wide audience of stakeholders around the business
You will translate requirements into Tableau dashboards, using best practice data visualisation guidelines, ensuring content can be consumed with the minimum effort possible
Our goal is to drive up dashboard usage to facilitate more data-driven decisions, and to enable self-service BI across all verticals at the Economist
Create impactful data visualisations that drive action in Tableau
Build using a template to ensure consistent look and feel for the end user
Present your findings to stakeholders and iterate on dashboards to keep them relevant
Identify ways to automate currently manual processes, using Tableau to visualise
Ensure the end users of your dashboards are using your dashboards
Share your Tableau knowledge with others across the team and company to help build a Tableau community
Help to ensure best practice visualisation standards are employed in the team’s Tableau content
Build the right Tableau published data sources to enable self-service BI
Gather new business requirements and collaborate closely with our users
Indicators used to measure success in this role include:
Increasing the number of users of Tableau dashboards, compared to current usage
Improved ability for our users to make business decisions using data visualisations
Measurable increase in the quality of data across BI applications
Ease of accessing business information and client behaviours / trends
Reduction in ad-hoc reporting / data requests through self-service BI
Optimised BI solutions delivered within time, quality and budget constraints

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Founded in 1843, the Economist is one of the best-known and well-read current affairs publications in the world, able to boast an ever-growing international circulation of around 1.5m readers. With sections ranging from US business news to the best new books & art, The Economist is a key figure within the huge journalism market.

Given its big market share, the key question for The Economist will be where it goes from here. Likely, the plan will be to carry on with business as usual. Critically, unlike many of its competitors, during the coronavirus pandemic The Economist has seen little decline in business, even as sales of paper-newspapers have declined globally. In particular, this is because the Economist has been operating a hybrid system of online and paper news for many years now, and so its core business has had relatively little to adapt to during the pandemic.

So, the key thing for The Economist will be ensuring that it keeps producing high-quality journalism into the future. In an age where the news is constantly plagued by distrust and misinformation, The Economist has a golden opportunity to set itself apart as a quality institution going forward.