6 Months SAS Senior Analyst

We're looking for an energetic, pro-active person who'll be responsible for utilising data and SAS programming knowledge to identify, deliver and document improvements and efficiencies in SAS programs, promote best practice and ensure the Marketing Analytics teams have the right tools and data available to provide customer insight and contact opportunities.

The role will give you exposure to working within a Marketing environment and across a variety of business areas. You'll be the type of person that enjoys the challenge of investigating data to find new opportunities, working with stakeholders to promote new ideas and has the drive to make it happen.

The role arises due to a number of strategic projects increasing the demand for data and insight from the Marketing Analytics teams and putting more pressure on our processes and data sources

The role is about...

· Identify and deliver improvements (optimisations and efficiencies) to SAS process and document to ensure that these are can be managed in a sustainable manner

· Addressing data gaps

· Migrating data and processes to a new SAS environment

· Sharing best practice techniques with other analysts

· Working to ensure changes and improvements are sustained after the role ends

· Involvement in strategic projects as & when required

· Engage with key stakeholders across the business to develop and deliver key activities

We need you to have...

· Extensive experience of SAS / SPSS / SQL / VB or other database language

· Strong data evaluation skills and the ability to present data in an appropriate format to deliver your message

· Experience of using PC tools, in particular MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word & MS PowerPoint as well as application specific tools.

· Good communication and presentation skills and have the ability to convey key messages using written and verbal media

We would like you to have...

· A lively and enquiring mind, with an interest in applying knowledge and ideas to the business's advantage

· Strong business and commercial knowledge

· Experience of a customer focused analytics environment