Business Intelligence Analyst

1135 - Analyst, Business Intelligence - MM&D

About WPP Media

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Role Summary and Impact

As a Business Intelligence Analyst within the Data & Intelligence team, you will be a hands-on individual contributor focused on developing, maintaining, and enhancing our core dashboard and reporting capabilities. This critical role requires you to translate complex data into clear, actionable, and visually engaging dashboards, making data accessible to a wide range of stakeholders.

You will collaborate closely with the wider Investment team and business stakeholders across the group to understand their analytical needs and transform raw data into intuitive, interactive BI solutions. Your expertise will be instrumental in building high-quality, user-friendly dashboards and reports, fostering a culture of data driven decision making and ensuring data integrity within our BI outputs.

This role is key to transforming raw data into strategic insights, delivering quantifiable information, and driving data informed engagement that directly contributes to our business commitments. Your contributions will significantly enhance our ability to monitor performance, identify trends, and empower decision making through accessible and impactful business intelligence tools.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and continuously improve interactive and visually compelling dashboards and reports using BI tools (e.g., Tableau) to present KPIs, track business performance, and highlight actionable trends.
• Utilise expert level SQL skills to query, extract, clean, and transform data from various complex data sources (e.g., Snowflake) to support dashboard development, ad hoc analysis, and reporting requirements.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders across the Investment team and wider group to understand their analytical needs, gather requirements, and translate them into effective, data driven BI solutions.
• Actively contribute to ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data within BI deliverables. Adhere to and champion data governance best practices in reporting and dashboard design.
• Contribute to the development and promotion of best practices in data visualisation, dashboard usability, and reporting standards within the Data & Intelligence team and among business users.

Skills and Experience:

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences

• Strong business acumen with the ability to actively listen to stakeholders, understand complex business questions, and translate them into clear data requirements and effective, insightful dashboard solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts, present data insights effectively, and guide users through interactive dashboards.
• Critical thinking abilities, with an aptitude for interpreting complex data, identifying trends, and deriving actionable insights that support data-driven decision-making.
• Proficiency in SQL for complex data extraction, manipulation, and analysis from large datasets (e.g., in Snowflake or similar data warehouses). Ability to write efficient, optimised, and robust queries for ad-hoc requests and dashboard data sources.
• Proven experience with leading Business Intelligence platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) for dashboard development, data visualisation, and building interactive user experiences, with a keen eye for design.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Strong ownership of deliverables and a proactive approach to identifying data gaps, reporting improvements, and opportunities to enhance existing dashboards.
• A growth mindset, demonstrating intellectual curiosity, a commitment to continuous learning, and a passion for leveraging data to deliver significant business value.
• Preferred: Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, Business Analytics) or equivalent practical experience.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.  

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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