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Senior Analyst Revenue Strategy & Analytics

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2u logo2u · Cape Town, South Africa
Full-timeOn-site1d ago
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Requirements

  • Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:
  • Analysis:
  • Accountable for proactively problem solving on key program/vertical challenges.
  • Uses strong understanding of program audience segmentation, funnel strategies, and user behavior to drive growth.
  • This may require interpreting existing KPIs, contextualizing data with its limitations and business relevance, and synthesizing a variety of data into a coherent narrative. This analytical output forms the foundation of all other components of the role.
  • Supports marketing spend decisions by providing funnel insights to the marketing analytics team, and may have direct oversight over marketing spend for low-mid priority courses.
  • Supports marketing spend decisions by creating additional KPI's for marketing as needed
  • Actively identifies and executes testing with clear hypothesis and learning agenda.
  • Uses statistics and analytical methods to strategically approach programs within scope.
  • Reporting:
  • Build and maintain customized reports, visualizations, and dashboards to reveal key data and insights across a variety of stakeholders and at varying levels of complexity.
  • Accomplishing this work requires an understanding of the underlying data sources, high levels of skill in the relevant technical tools, as well as a detailed understanding of key business use cases to match the deliverable with the situation.
  • Communication of Results:
  • Demonstrate expertise in effective communication of analysis, reporting, and recommendations to key stakeholders.
  • This requires communicating complex and/or quantitative information to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences, including those at the VP level.
  • Relationship Management:
  • Demonstrate expertise in working effectively in cross-functional teams with stakeholders across a variety of technical and non-technical departments.
  • Nurture relationships to build stakeholder trust in deliverables that you provide as well as to stay informed of key business context that other departments may be able to share.
  • Coaching:
  • Assist Management with initial training and onboarding of new Analyst hires. Serve as an initial point of contact for questions from analysts, prior to escalation to the Manager.
  • Things That Should Be In Your Background:
  • Bachelor's degree (from a business, economics, or math related field is a plus)
  • 4-7 years of experience in analytics, or relevant business using data to solve problems
  • Working knowledge of Excel, and some previous exposure to SQL or other databases
  • Experience working with media engines, such as Adwords, web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, and data visualization tools, such as Tableau preferred.
  • Is looking for the opportunity to set business strategy
  • Keen interest in digital marketing (prior experience a plus, but not required)
  • Adept at problem solving and can balance creativity with analytical skills
  • Strong work ethic and doesn't accept complacency
  • Demonstrates proactive thinking - always seeking ways to do something better
  • The ability to multi-task, stay organized and evaluate priorities on an ongoing basis
  • Benefits & Culture

Additional Information

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission - to make learning limitless- and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class higher education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading online learning platform, 2U powers thousands of higher education offerings - from free courses to full degrees. Together with our college, university, and corporate partners, we are helping accelerate careers and transform lives.


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