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About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded Data & Analytics Lead: Real Estate & Workplace to join the Property and Facilities department. These are exciting times for us as we build our capabilities as a Workplace team. This role requires the postholder to lead and deliver the data strategy across Real Estate & Workplace Centre of Excellence (CoE). It involves building a data and analytics capability from the ground up and implementing data systems across the Real Estate & Workplace team.

Reporting in to the Real Estate & Workplace Director the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Develop creative and impactful analyses to drive real estate & workplace decisions and strategies
• Create tools that enable the Real Estate and Workplace team to work more efficiently and effectively to deliver projects
• Manage the Press’s property/lease database (hosted by an external provider) and ensure that portfolio data is maintained accurately
• Implementing dashboards for effective monitoring of CoE’s performance against SLA/KPI’s
• Preparation of monthly / strategic reports
• Proactively support the Real Estate & Workplace team by collecting data, analyse & reporting
• Support budget management, liaising with finance to ensure costs are monitored and controlled.
• Assist with development of financial business cases and ensuring consistency in quality and depth of analysis for each project
• Identify and implement system and data improvement initiatives to ensure continuous improvement

We’re all currently working from home at the moment due to COVID.  We are currently thinking through how we use our offices in the future and  are open to discussing flexibility within this such as a blend of office and home working.

About You

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experiences:

• Strong computer skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, graphs and storyboarding to effectively communicate real estate strategies to senior leadership
• Strong capabilities in financial modelling
• Strong understanding of real estate and development industry
• Understanding of the whole property life cycle.
• Relevant work experience, preferably in a global environment
• Strong computer skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, graphs and storyboarding to effectively communicate real estate strategies to senior leadership
• Have a consultative approach to problem solving
• Passionate to make an impact
• Energized by creative and insightful analyses
• Ability to work both independently and cooperatively in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support remote working, dependent on role. We also have an on-site gym with subsidised membership fees and a great variety of active employee networks and societies. 

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 11%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts. 

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact wendy.foster@oup.com should you have any queries.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.