Job Introduction
Product Analyst
BPP Education is entering a new phase of its growth and evolution, attracting thousands more students each year and expanding into new verticals and new markets globally. The BPP Product & Technology (P&T) organisation is evolving rapidly, and driving transformation of its platforms, digital products, and experiences, to help BPP Education scale and meet the growth of the business in the coming years. We are looking for an experienced analyst to work in our Data Analytics team. You will enable BPP to leverage insight, to inform and optimise how we deliver scalable, secure, and performant experiences that delight and engage learners during their time with BPP and beyond, throughout their working lives.
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Why work for BPP Education Group?
It is a great time to join BPP Education Group as we have enjoyed a sustained period of growth, offering a wealth of opportunities to our staff, students and clients. There are many more great reasons to join BPP Education Group such as:
- Brilliantly, you can study any of BPP’s courses for free – be it a professional qualification or full degree.
- With hybrid working available, you’ll be able to split your time between one of our centres and wherever you choose to call home.
- We also provide a generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days, and there’s a rewards package that includes retail discounts and much more.
Other key benefits include our Group Personal Pension Plan, dedicated private healthcare and dental plans that offer additional assurance to look after you and your family
What you’ll be doing
As a Product Analyst, you will report to the Product Analytics Manager. Working as part of a product squad you will help deliver and evolve BPP Education’s vision to become more customer centred, design and data informed, to build products that meet and exceed our users’ needs across our education ecosystem.
As such, you will be responsible for:
- Help ensure Product Squad objectives are met whilst advocating for data-driven decision making and test and learn culture
- Develop and champion the use of analytics to show a true understanding of how our customers use our product
- Develop valuable problem-solving analytics that provide clear understanding of customer behaviour. Achieving this by identifying relevant data sources and finding trends and patterns that help find solutions to business problems
- Develop data-driven hypothesis on how to optimise product effectiveness with the product team including clear success measurements
- Display and communicate insight clearly, develop standard reports and dashboards measuring performance against identified business objectives. Designed to be visually engaging, as well as simple, easy to use with clear storytelling
- Work closely with wider Analytics team to share insights that will impact other products and strengthen customer understanding. As well as share knowledge and best practice
- Champion the importance of data quality, identify areas that poor data quality is impacting processes and product
- Advocate data literacy across the BPP group by being a pro-active data partner across network of data champions as well as promoting data literacy at every opportunity.
- Ensure adherence to all data governance policies
What we’re looking for
To be successful in this role you will need to have a proven track record in the following areas:
Essential Skills
- Experience of data management and analytics skills
- Experience of using analytical platform and/or code such as dbt, SAS, SQL, Python, R etc.
- Experience of using visualisation tools such as PowerBI or Tableau
- Experience of using with a range of analytical skills to transform data into usable insight by multiple audiences
- Effective communication skills to people of all data knowledge levels
- Passion for continuous development and learning
Desired Skills
- Experience working in an agile product delivery environment
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic DBS check.
BPP Education Group are proud to be a Disability Confident employer so if you need any reasonable adjustments for the interview process, please just let us know!
BPP Education Group actively promotes equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates. BPP will select candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience. Please note that for those posts that are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check in addition to BPP undertaking any necessary online searches. This is deemed appropriate and necessary from a safeguarding perspective, and in line with BPP’s safer recruitment practices
BPP Education Group reserves the right to amend or withdraw this advertisement at any time prior to the closing date, should we receive a high volume of applications or if business needs change.