Commercial Analyst

We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Analyst to join our team on a 5month paternity leave contract. The Commercial Analyst role sits within a small group of specialist analysts within the Commerce team who work across all of Nines Platforms to provide unified reporting and commercial insights to a range of stakeholders. 

The Commerce team is the operational support team within the Nine Advertising Sales division. 

Commerce provides Sales team support through working with Sales leadership to define business goals providing insights and dataled strategies.

Role responsibilities

• Delivery of yield inventory and revenue reporting and insights to monitor commercial product performance
• Work with Nines internal technology teams and other stakeholders to mine and query a range of large datasets
• Data driven evaluation of business growth opportunities
• Delivery of commercial modelling and business cases
• Delivery of recommendations to support strategic commercial decisionmaking
• Own delivery of inventory forecasting models for a range of Nines assets with purpose to support revenue outcomes
• Bring creative problem solving to ongoing business issues
• Work with pricing yield and inventory teams to develop revenue strategy supported by deep audience and inventory insights
• Work with programming and product teams to model audience growth and impact on inventory opportunity
• Enact responsibility as a key internal stakeholder with revenue outcomes and sales team/client experience top of mind
• Analyse market trends and competitor landscape to identify growth opportunities
• Provide recommendations into the operational design of new products covering how inventory and avails will be forecasted sales processes delivery workflows and product performance reporting
• Maintain a range of existing system processes & inventory tools
• Ad hoc analysis as required
   

Qualifications :

Essential qualifications experience & skills

• Minimum three years experience with a proven analytical background
• Experience working with managing merging and querying large datasets (BigQuery preferred)
• High level knowledge of SQL and Python query languages and MS Excel/ Google Sheets 
• Structured thinker and creative problem solver
• Highly numerate with the ability to analyse information and produce datadriven recommendations for important business decisions
• Strong attention to detail and advanced Excel skills
• Excellent commercial acumen and experience operating as a trusted Commercial Advisor
• BI reporting tools Tableau and Looker preferred
• BI reporting tools Tableau and Looker preferred

Desirable experience & skills

• Media experience preferable but not essential

Additional Information :

Being part of our Nine Sales team means you will benefit from:

• Sales Incentive Scheme that rewards and recognises performance & success.
• Sales Academy our bespoke training and development program for Sales.
• Offices in the heart of North Sydney within our building are our news and filming studios where all the action happens plus views of the Harbour!
• Complimentary subscriptions to all our platforms including Sydney Morning Herald AFR The Age Brisbane Times and WA today.
• Exclusive invitations to Nine Events whether you are a fan of Nines top rating entertainment programmes or the NRL it could be you sitting in the audience!

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one youll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people people with disabilities and of all ages nationalities backgrounds and cultures.

Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime