Senior Social Insight Analyst - Contract

JR United Kingdom; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Social Insight Analyst to manage a freelance team, delivering data-driven insights that influence brand and marketing strategies. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in digital insights and social-listening, and exceptional storytelling abilities. This contract role offers hybrid work and requires immediate availability.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in digital insights and social-listening.
• Proven track record of leading teams and managing projects.
• Comfortable with quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Responsibilities

• Translate briefs into analytical workstreams and timelines.
• Manage and track tasks for a distributed freelance team.
• Build and refine Boolean queries in analytics platforms.

Skills

Digital insights

Social-listening

Data storytelling

Team leadership

Quality control

Tools

YouScan

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Senior Social Insight Analyst - Contract, Slough

Client: Salt

Location: Slough, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

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Posted:

06.06.2025

Expiry Date:

21.07.2025

Job Description:

SALT is looking for an experienced social-listening and digital-insights specialist who can manage a global team of 8 freelance analysts and deliver insight projects end-to-end at pace.

You’ll be the single point of accountability for turning stakeholder questions into data-driven stories that shape brand, marketing, and product decisions across multiple markets.

• Immediate start, 6-month contract
• Hybrid working in London (not negotiable)

What You’ll Do:

• Translate briefs into clear analytical workstreams and realistic timelines
• Plan, allocate, and track tasks for a distributed freelance team spanning several time zones
• Enforce quality-control checkpoints and keep everyone on track
• Build, refine, and QA Boolean queries in platforms such as YouScan
• Combine social-listening data with web & campaign analytics to surface integrated insights
• Blend quantitative signals with qualitative narratives to answer ‘why’ as well as ‘what’
• Coach freelancers on best practice in social data, coding queries, and visualising results

What you’ll need:

• Strong experience in digital insights and social-listening, ideally in fast-moving, multinational environments
• Proven track record of leading teams and juggling multiple concurrent projects under tight deadlines
• Comfortable crafting both quantitative analysis and qualitative insight
• Strong PowerPoint skills, and a knack for clear, compelling data storytelling