Insights-Focused Journals Data Analyst

BMA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension contribution up to 12%

Dental and travel insurance

Life assurance 7x salary

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

BMJ in London is seeking a Journals Data Analyst to transform complex data into actionable insights and visualise data for broad stakeholder engagement. You will work within the Insights team, collaborating with Data to improve data sources and validate new data, supporting evidence-based decision making.

You will develop dashboards, perform market analysis, and communicate data-driven recommendations to both technical and non-technical colleagues, while contributing to data quality improvements

Qualifications

• Expertise in analysing complex data to deliver actionable insights and recommendations.
• Experience of problem-solving and finding creative solutions to roadblocks.
• Ability to prioritise work and to manage competing deadlines.
• Proven communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Experience of stakeholder management.
• Experience of working with Tableau.
• Strong attention-to-detail.
• Experience of business intelligence systems.
• Familiarity with the academic journal publishing market.
• Familiarity with publishing systems, metadata, and data flow between systems, for example, ScholarOne, production systems, Crossref, and external indexers.
• Knowledge of SQL, Python, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Transform complex data into actionable insights for colleagues across the Publishing & Events team.
• Perform market / competitor analysis; highlight and interpret journal / portfolio trends; model the impacts of new policies and approaches; and investigate data quality issues, among other work.
• Develop actionable, repeatable dashboards that highlight business trends and improve team workflows.
• Communicate clearly and effectively about data and insights to the wider Publishing & Events team.
• Continually and proactively look for opportunities to improve data, reporting, and processes.
• Maintain reporting, process, and investigation documentation; triage work requests; assist with sprint prioritisation and communication; and similar Insights team support tasks.
• Collaborate with system owners and subject matter experts to investigate and resolve problems.

Skills

Data analysis

Problem solving

Prioritisation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Tableau

BI systems

Academic publishing

ScholarOne

Crossref

Production systems

SQL

Python

Tools

Tableau

ScholarOne

Crossref

Production systems

Job description

BMJ in London is seeking a Journals Data Analyst to transform complex data into actionable insights and visualise data for broad stakeholder engagement. You will work within the Insights team, collaborating with Data to improve data sources and validate new data, supporting evidence-based decision making.

You will develop dashboards, perform market analysis, and communicate data-driven recommendations to both technical and non-technical colleagues, while contributing to data quality improvements