Senior Insights Manager

Autotrader; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading automotive marketplace as a Senior Insights Manager in Manchester, where you'll leverage data to provide impactful insights across teams. This role involves collaboration with marketing, product, and finance, transforming complex data into engaging narratives to guide business decisions, and oversee a team of Insight Analysts. With a strong focus on market dynamics, your insights will support strategic planning and business growth efforts.

Benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

7% pension contributions

Comprehensive private medical cover

Flexible remote working options

Share-saving options

Qualifications

• Extensive experience transforming data into clear narratives.
• Excellent communication skills to present insights.
• Leadership experience in guiding Insight Analysts.

Responsibilities

• Produce actionable insights for partner engagement.
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive key business decisions.
• Communicate market trends to various stakeholders.

Skills

Data Analysis

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Trend Identification

Tools

Looker

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About Autotrader

You’ve probably heard of Autotrader, but do you know what we’re all about? At Autotrader, our leadership team has a clear vision of building a data and technology platform that underpins the automotive industry.

About Autotrader

You’ve probably heard of Autotrader, but do you know what we’re all about? At Autotrader, our leadership team has a clear vision of building a data and technology platform that underpins the automotive industry.

We’re the UK’s leading automotive marketplace, a heritage brand, and a tech darling of the stock market. We bring together vehicle buyers and sellers to give them real choices. Cars may be what we're best known for but we’re also the place for pretty much everything else on wheels, from e-bikes to caravans.

In the automotive world, change is a constant, that’s why we take our job of untangling the complex car-buying journey very seriously.

At our core, we’re all about people. We go our own way while embracing diversity and celebrating our differences. We dedicate ourselves to the idea that we work better together.

Autotrader is a beautiful, surprising and vibrant place to work. We might not be for everyone, but we could be perfect for you.

About The Job

We're looking for a Senior Insights Manager to lead our efforts to produce actionable customer, market, and performance insights that help drive partner engagement and business progress. This role needs a combination of skills – strong in handling data and analysis, thinking broadly and creatively, working closely with cross-functional teams to influence key business decisions and developing a deep understanding of the automotive market and wider industry trends.

The Strategy & Insights team sits at the heart of Autotrader as a key part of the Go To Market community. It’s the place where trends in consumer behaviour are discovered, market performance is analysed and forecast, and from which ideas for strategic direction are discussed, tested and evidenced.

Externally, these insights provide commentary for national media, support policymakers in UK Government and industry bodies, or help investors and market analysts understand the UK market. Internally the position is key to helping our Partnerships Community work closely with our retailer, finance and manufacturer customers, as well as identifying and communicating the market trends into decisions taken by our Finance colleagues, where customer performance and supply dynamics are essential to understanding direction.

The insights also help our Product & Tech teams consider potential areas for exploration and development. You will inform our strategy, identifies risks & opportunities by pulling together market performance insights, understanding customer needs and articulating the longer term trends the position plays an important role for our leadership team.

What We're Looking For

• Extensive experience transforming data into clear, engaging narratives on performance, trends, sentiment and implications
• Confident in articulating compelling reports and identifying what's important
• Experience working with teams across marketing, product, commercial, and analytics to deliver impactful outcomes.
• Proficiency in Looker, with the ability to navigate dashboards, explore data, and create visualisations for insightful reporting
• A proactive approach identifying emerging trends, tools, and technologies.
• You will lead and manage a team of Insight Analysts so experience in leadership, guiding and nurturing teams to achieve their full potential, fostering an environment of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills to interact and present credibly with a wide range of stakeholders
• The role requires flexibility to travel to London when necessary
  
  

Benefits

We’re offering a salary of £60,000 – £70,000, plus an additional 10% of your salary awarded to you in shares each year. These awarded shares will become yours in yearly installments over the next three years, and you can choose to either sell them or keep them as shares.

You'll have 28 days holiday per year, and that's in addition to bank holidays and half day closures on Christmas and New Year's Eve.

That’s not all. You'll be enrolled in our pension scheme, where our standard contributions are 7% and employee contributions are 5%. We also have comprehensive private medical cover, enhanced family leave provisions, a car salary sacrifice scheme, share-save options, and much more.

We always want to give you the support you need and help prioritise your wellbeing, that’s why we provide access to 24/7 online GP and dentist, as well as specialist support for assisted fertility, gender dysphoria, menopause, period care plans and lots more.

On top of all that, our hybrid model, Connected Working, combines the best of both worlds – office and home working. You’ll have two fixed weekly office days for team collaboration and one more of your choice to suit your work-life balance.

Additionally, we have our remote-first periods at set times during summer and winter. During these periods, you can work remotely anywhere in the UK and from certain locations abroad.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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