Job Description
The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.
The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.
Your role: As an Insight Executive on The Sun Insight team, you’ll work closely with The Sun Analytics team, with both teams reporting into the Director of Data. Your role is to enhance our understanding of over 27m monthly readers, supporting marketing, editorial, and commercial projects through primary and secondary research and data analysis.
This is a fast-paced, dynamic environment where each day brings new challenges and opportunities to influence key decisions. We value creativity, innovation, and data-driven decision-making, making this an ideal opportunity for someone looking to bridge the gap between traditional insight and modern analytics.
Day to day you will:
1. Combine traditional research with data analytics to ensure the ‘Voice of the Consumer’ is at the heart of our decision-making.
2. Research Support: Manage the end-to-end process for the Sun Reader Panel, from scripting surveys to processing data. You will be comfortable working in Excel and survey platforms, while also utilising AI tools to help categorise and analyse large volumes of qualitative open-end responses more efficiently.
3. Monitor and report on brand performance and project findings. You will be responsible for writing clear, punchy summaries. You’ll have the opportunity to use AI as a writing co-pilot to help draft initial summary documents, ensuring they are always refined by you to fit the unique tone of The Sun.
4. Create clear and impactful debriefs. In addition to standard charting, you will explore AI-enhanced design tools to create compelling visual materials that bring our research findings to life for stakeholders.
5. Use industry tools (TGI, YouGov) and internal dashboards to find the ‘why’ behind the numbers. You will also learn to use the semantic layers of tools like Omni, allowing you to dive deeper into analytical data using natural language queries.
6. Work across various teams to identify knowledge gaps and provide the information needed to achieve business objectives.
What we’re looking for from you:
7. Experience in an Insight, Research, or Analyst-assistant role.
8. Comfortable working with datasets and spreadsheets (Excel is a must) but, more importantly, able to see the patterns and stories that connect the data points.
9. A proactive interest in how new technologies and AI can be used to improve research speed and quality.
10. An ability to communicate creatively and succinctly. You can take a complex dataset and translate it into a meaningful story for our Editors or Marketers.
11. Experience with (or a desire to learn) data tools like Tableau, or Omni.
12. A positive, ‘can-do’ attitude with the initiative to find better ways of doing things.
News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and Next Gen.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
13. Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
14. Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
15. Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
16. Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
17. ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
18. Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
19. Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
20. Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
21. A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
22. 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at careers@news.co.uk to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.
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