Job Title:
Insight Assistant

Job Description:

The Role

Reporting to the insight manager as part of our strategy and insight team, you will be part of a team that needs to be very flexible, responding quickly to requests with useful actionable insight across a wide range of topics. The ultimate purpose is to help the strategy team deliver work that is relevant and cuts new ground for our client’s business.

You will use data collected from premium resources, as well as your own knowledge, to put together cross-sector information and analysis on markets, categories and brands to trends, developments, and recent innovations.

Key Accountabilities

  • Analysing data and applying it to business problems faced by clients and new business prospects.
  • Supporting strategists to develop media briefs through insights gathered from in-depth research into brands, markets, trends, innovations, and consumer behaviour.
  • Devising innovative approaches to gathering information if it is not readily available and time is short.
  • Presenting ideas in a compelling way over multiple formats, such as email, PowerPoint and face-to-face presentations.
  • Learning about people: what they do and why, and being able to explain this to clients and agency teams.
  • Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of relevant data sources, and updating subscriptions to premium services.

Candidate Profile

  • Intellectually rigorous and able to extract the useful and important from the clutter i.e. can see the wood for the trees.
  • Numerate.
  • Analytical thinkers, engaged with data, trends, and reports that relate to the challenges faced by clients.
  • Curious and inquisitive, interested in human behaviour, brands, social trends and culture.
  • Hungry to continue learning.
  • Excellent, articulate writers, simplifying and presenting relevant information in a concise and imaginative way.
  • They can tell and present a story from the wealth of data they have collated.
  • Rigorous, working diligently with large volumes of data and lengthy reports to develop and support insights through a variety of sources.
  • Flexible and able to adapt to the wide scope of investigative tasks required, while projects constantly evolve.
  • Professional and highly developed oral and communication skills
  • Ensure 100% accuracy and display excellent attention to detail
  • Have a proactive mindset towards development of personal knowledge and skills

About dentsu international

Part of dentsu, dentsu international headquartered in London operates in over 145 markets worldwide with more than 48,000 dedicated specialists. We help clients to win, keep and grow their best customers and achieve meaningful progress for their businesses. With best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative. www.dentsu.com

Working with us

Joining dentsu international, you’ll join a team of 48,000 people. It’sanopportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you’ll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences. We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.

Inclusion and Diversity

We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

Location:
Manchester

Brand:
Carat

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent