Salary Range; $60,000 - $70,000
We're looking for a Data Journalist, WARC Digital Commerce to join our team in New York as part of our Content function.
Your Role: You will be equally confident working with data as they are telling compelling stories with sharp, analytical commentary. WARC Digital Commerce provides high-value, data-driven editorial content for subscribers seeking the latest trends in e-commerce and retail media
Key Responsibilities
- Work alongside the Head of Content and Reports Editor in creating an editorial programme for WARC Digital Commerce.
- Write regular data point articles each week, featuring data visualisation and commentary.
- Identify current and emerging industry trends, and find a way to communicate those trends through data-led content.
- Contribute to the development of category and platform-specific reports for subscribers.
- Collaborate with external partners and industry experts on content projects.
- A team player, you will work across geographies, cultures and time zones and enjoy working with multiple departments, including data, design, production and marketing teams.
- Develop a network of industry contacts for the sourcing of relevant data and analysis.
- Support the WARC Advisory team with commerce-specific projects.
- You are an advocate and ally for diversity, equity and inclusion
Your Experience
- Some experience producing data-driven content, preferably (but not essential) with a focus on the e-commerce or advertising industries.
- A data professional fascinated by the advertising sector, and what it means to businesses and consumers.
- Comfortable with large data sets and consider yourself an expert in pulling insight / trends out of data.
- Excellent copywriting skills and numeracy are essential.
- Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint and HTML preference.
- Superb organisational abilities and strong communication skills
If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At WARC, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
Who are we?
WARC is the global authority on marketing effectiveness. We provide rigorous and unbiased evidence, expertise and guidance to help marketers navigate any challenges effectively. WARC services include 100,000+ case studies, best practice guides, research papers, special reports, advertising trend data, news & opinion articles, as well as awards, events and advisory services.
WARC operates out of London, New York, São Paul and Singapore to service a community of over 75,000 marketers in more than 1,300 companies in 100+ markets and collaborates with 50+ industry partners.
WARC is an Ascential company. Ascential delivers specialist information, analytics and ecommerce optimisation platforms to the world's leading consumer brands and their ecosystems. We help our customers to make smart decisions that improve performance now, and in the future.
With more than 3,300 employees across five continents, we combine local expertise with a global footprint for clients in over 120 countries. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Why choose us?
At Ascential, diversity, equity and inclusion is core to us. We’re a company built around our people - and we’re committed to supporting each and every one of them to be the best they can be. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas and different strengths and perspectives to Ascential. Our employee-led groups and networks, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and EmPower: An Ascential Women's Initiative, Shalom Ascential and Latinx, help us to create a place where communities and allies can connect and share experiences. We are proud to have been recognised as a best performer in the FTSE Women Leaders Review for six consecutive years, listed in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and ranked in the top 1500 companies on Sustainalytics.
We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.
Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.
We have a truly flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile-working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been - and will continue to be - actively encouraged here.
Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:
- 15 days of holiday per year and an extra day for each year of service up to 20 days
- 401K – Saving Incentive plan
- Life Assurance and Disability insurance as well as Medical and Dental Insurance plans
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee assistance programme, Vision benefits, Volunteering and Commuters benefits
- Great learning and development opportunities
- Option to opt into the Ascential Shares Scheme
We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
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Ascential anticipates in good faith that the position shall be compensated at a base salary no lower than the posted minimum and no higher than the posted maximum. Each candidate's actual salary will be a function of the candidate’s qualifications, the locally competitive market rate and will be consistent with Ascenti