Journals Data Analyst

This role is an exciting newly created position that will be instrumental in contributing to overarching business unit objectives by delivering data insights that drive strategic decisions in the Journals Publishing program.
In this role, you will collate data on KPIs that measure journal performance and build dashboards that visualise those data to guide the actions of the team. With strong analytical skills and a focus on business intelligence, you will create actionable insights to enable improvement of the existing business, identification of new opportunities, with a focus on providing marketing analysis to generate new sales and marketing leads, and development of new products and services.

Your duties will include:

1. Evaluating new opportunities for journals by undertaking bibliometric analyses and research.
2. Preparing annual journal reports and other ad hoc reports, to implement data-driven editorial strategies.
3. Working with business leaders and stakeholders to define a problem or business needs.
4. Building analytical data, models, reports and identifying trends and insights that contribute to business strategy and journal performance.
5. Conducting market segment and market gap analyses.
6. Conducting competitor analyses.
7. Preparing and presenting data in such a way that it tells a compelling story and is visually easy to understand. 
8. Creating dashboards which visualise KPI data in an easy-to-understand form.
   Identifying and implementing process improvements on an ongoing basis.
9. Ensuring consistent use of data systems.
10. Undertaking other ad hoc analytic tasks as directed by business leaders.