Marketing Data Analyst

Compensation Range:

Position Summary

As the Marketing Analyst you’ll act as a partner within the Marketing Analytics team delivering knowledge of marketing activity performance.  Responsibilities will include reporting on performance, supporting the creation of actional insights and enabling analytics self-service for the marketing team.  This position requires a strong quantitative background to develop dynamic reports and dashboards that will serve as the backbone for marketing enabling data-driven decision across the team.  Additionally, this role supports advanced analytics functions such as developing nuanced forecasts with multiple data inputs. The ideal candidate is a data-driven analyst with a variety of analytic skills including data visualization, experience working with multiple data sources, and marketing data and concepts. 

Essential Functions:

• Consultative skills: work with marketing team to translate marketing data needs into reports and self-service marketing tools. 
• Create data insights: create graphs, reports, and dashboards to increase understanding of performance across marketing and cross-functional teams. 
• Ensure reporting accuracy and availability: Responsible for the data integrity of reports and dashboards ensuring that reported data is accurate. Corroborates data integrity of website and digital media channel data.  
• Develop expertise in data sources: work with internal marketing with cross-functional data partners to ensure that data required is available to use in creating reports and dashboards. 
• Develop expertise in university business processes: cultivate a deep understanding of marketing and enrollment processes, statuses, and prospective student cycle and the supporting data across these to support report and insight creation. 
• Other duties as assigned.  

Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A

Requirements:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Math or related field, preferred;
• 2+ years’ relevant experience in marketing analytics or data science role, data management or analytics.
• Experience within the higher-education industry, a plus.

Competencies/Technical/Functional Skills:

• Data mining, Excel skills and other technical capabilities including experience with analytics tools and systems such as Excel, R, SQL, SAS, and business intelligence and visualization platforms such as Tableau, Cognos, Birst, DOMO, Microsoft Power BI.   
• Quantitative data experience and exposure to using analytics code to extract data, create dashboards and reports.  
• Strong analytics knowledge base: Familiarity using data warehousing tools and data science environments and integrating data from multiple sources. 
• Understanding of marketing analytics, marketing frameworks and concepts, and analytic needs of marketing team across multiple responsibility levels.  
• Proven capabilities utilizing data to create insight.  
• Ability to participate as an active team member of the team and organization and work toward a common goal.  
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals of constituencies in a diverse community. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.  
• Work independently and foster a cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and frequently changing priorities.  
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, set and reach goals, self-motivated; detail-oriented with the ability to look at the big picture, goal and service-oriented; professional image and demeanor. 
• Advanced Microsoft Office Suite applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and ability to learn new systems as necessary to succeed with results.     
• Actively seeks opportunities to influence, build effective relationships and gain alignment with peers, functional partners, and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives.  
• Accepts personal accountability, proactively seeks resolution for personal limitations head-on; and supports honesty and respect towards others, the company, and oneself. 

Location: Remote, USA

Travel: up to 10% travel

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Candidate receiving offers will be offered a salary/pay rate commensurate with experience that vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies.  Absent exceptional circumstances, candidates will be offered a salary within this range for this position. The minimum salary will be offered based on the minimum exemption threshold based on state of residency. Base pay is one component of National University’s total rewards package, as we are dedicated to supporting the needs of the “whole you” with our holistic approach to employee benefits by offering comprehensive well-being benefits for you and your family.  For full details about our benefit plan offerings, please visit benefits.nu.edu. For Part-time benefits, please click here.

National University is committed to maintaining a high-quality workforce representative of the populations we serve. National University employs more than 4,500 faculty and staff and serves over 45,000 students. We are united in our mission to meet the global education demands of the 21st Century and are dedicated to creating a supportive academic and work environment that allows students, faculty and staff to develop their interests and talents while experiencing a sense of community. With programs available both online and at our many campus locations, National University is a leader in creating innovative solutions to education and meeting the needs of our student population, including adult learners and working professionals.

National University (NU) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant per applicable federal, state and local laws. At NU, a mix of highly talented, innovative and creative people come together to make the impact of a lifetime for each of our student learners. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment, education, and admission at National University.