Data Analyst (Hybrid - 2 days in office/week)

The Team & The Job

The Ratings Data Management team anchors YouGov’s Public Data, ensuring our public-facing content is accurate, engaging, and impactful. As a Data Analyst, you will manage and organise Ratings and Tracker data, which measure the popularity and fame of people, brands, and topics worldwide.

This role is ideal for someone with strong data management skills, an analytical mindset, and wide-ranging interests spanning politics, culture, sport, and entertainment. You will play a key part in improving our data quality, supporting research projects, and helping shape YouGov’s reputation as the most quoted research source in the world.

What you will be doing

• Manage and organise Ratings and Tracker datasets to ensure accuracy and consistency
• Support the development of taxonomy architecture to structure data effectively
• Run queries across internal databases and interpret surveys built with in-house programming languages. Requires a basic understanding of programming logic, preferably in SQL, R, Python, or JavaScript.
• Respond to ad hoc research and data requests to support business priorities
• Review and check ongoing research projects, question existing models and approaches to drive improvements
• Conduct exploratory research into new or emerging topics to inform future projects
• Contribute to research documents and reports for internal and external use

What you need to know

Technical Skills

• Strong interest and experience in data management and research
• Proficiency in Excel and ability to work with large datasets
• Basic programming skills
• Strong research and basic statistical skills
• Strong interest in global news, trends, and developments across sectors, especially in news, sport, and entertainment
• Fluency in another world language besides English is desirable but not essential
• Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. social sciences, economics, data science, applied mathematics, management or business)

Behavioural Skills

• Accountable mindset
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels
• Be proactive, resourceful, and able to work independently
• Show curiosity, adaptability, and openness to new ideas and approaches
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues and contribute to a culture of trust
• Deliver work reliably and meet deadlines

Why join YouGov?
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do. 
Life at YouGov
We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work. 
 
Equal Opportunity Employer
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.

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