Data analyst

Closing date: 10th January 2025

Salary: Up to £33,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

Location: This role can be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated analyst to join our Commercial Analysis team. 

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. We're made up of 12 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third largest trade and educational publisher. It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.

Responsibilities

• Generating consistent and accurate reporting and analysis that drives understanding of key market trends across our physical and digital products.
• Presenting insight and data to colleagues across the business, including divisional directors and industry-leading trade publishers.
• Interpreting internal and external data to inform and support divisional strategy, for example publishing categories and company acquisitions.
• Supporting the Commercial Analysis team on data projects, helping with reporting and analysis of large datasets.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• The ideal candidate will have exceptional analytical, organisational and communication skills.
• You will be highly numerate, confident handling large data sets and able to communicate financial information to non-finance colleagues in an engaging way.
• A statistics, technical or computing background, with a keen interest in books and knowledge of the publishing process is advantageous.
• You will also have excellent excel skills and strategy capability, with proven experience in using data to support and influence business decisions.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.