Entry Level Analyst - Data & Analytics

Concord Agency - Parkville, MO

Full-time - Entry Level

Parkville, MO

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About the position

Concord is not your typical consulting firm; we are an execution company with a passion for making things happen. Our mission is to help clients enhance customer experiences, optimize operations, and revolutionize their product offerings through seamless integration, optimization, and activation of technology and data. We are purpose-built, merging the industry's top specialty companies to amplify our Innovation Capabilities in analytics & AI, data management & engineering, UX and digital experience development, and technical platform integration, automation & security engineering. Evolytics, an award-winning analytics company, was acquired by Concord in 2022. This Entry Level Analyst position is for the Kansas City-based Concord location, which is the former headquarters for Evolytics and is now the Data & Analytics regional office for Concord. The Hybrid Analyst onboarding program is a full-time rotational program designed to expose new hires to all aspects of the Data Lifecycle, including Analytics Development, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Data Analysis, A/B Testing and Optimization, and Data Science. At the end of the 6-month program, the new hire will formally join a team as a Data Analyst, working directly with clients to address business questions with data. The analyst will be responsible for putting client business questions in context relative to broader organizational strategies and determining the best way to approach them with data. As a Data Analyst at Concord, you will consult with clients and manage deliverables to ensure strategic understanding and use of data. You will partner with clients to understand their business and measurement needs, guiding them on how to best use their data. You will determine KPIs to support business needs, develop new reports in support of business questions, conduct analysis, identify key insights, and formulate data-driven recommendations for optimization. Building client relationships and providing cross-functional project management for all client deliverables will be key aspects of your role.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to understand their business and measurement needs, and guide them on how to best use their data.
• Determine KPIs to support business needs.
• Develop new reports in support of business questions.
• Conduct analysis, identify key insights, and formulate data-driven recommendations for optimization.
• Build client relationships, and provide cross-functional project management for all client deliverables.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree, or a degree in Business, Marketing, Journalism, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.
• Eagerness to learn and solve difficult problems.
• Ability to think strategically and see the 'big picture'.
• Attention to detail (QA/troubleshoot data, anticipate 'holes').
• Ability to identify appropriate metrics, dimensions, data aggregation and granularity needed for specific analysis.
• Understanding of how this thought process is driven by the business need, and the impact on results.
• Ability to interpret results and clearly convey these to a client.
• Works well with others; Heavy collaboration with internal team to coordinate a final product required.

Nice-to-haves

• Exposure to Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, and/or Data Studio.
• Familiarity with languages such as Python, R, SQL, and/or JavaScript.
• Experience with Digital Analytics tools like Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics and/or Tag Management Systems.
• Understanding of concepts such as Search Engine Marketing and A/B Testing.