Commercial Data Analyst - Manchester

Digital – Commercial Data Analyst Industrial Placement

You’re not just looking for a career, you’re looking to make a difference.  

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. And we use the power of technology to help solve big challenges, like climate change and cyber security. 

From day one, you’ll have a voice at BT Group. You’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. You won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development. You’ll make great friends, discover new talents, and feel part of something exhilarating.   

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world. Grab it. 

About this role

Everyone these days knows how key data is to any business. Data helps influence change, demonstrate trends, and show a business what new directions to take. Working on some of our transformational projects, you’ll source data from around the business to identify opportunities for business improvements and change, developing change journeys, through to delivery of these projects as a data expert.  

You’ll be joining a team of highly skilled commercial data analysts to source, extract, validate, integrate, organise, and analyse data from multiple sources aligned to business challenges to enable critical business decisions, driving transformation and business change. You’ll learn to apply data cleansing techniques and data standardisation rules to help keep documents and data quality up to date to uncover trends and present findings in a compelling way. 

You’ll develop coding skills relevant to data manipulation to automate data collection and integration, taking a user-centred approach to uplifting the value of self-serve capabilities. 

You will apply your data expertise to develop, design, build and iterate reports and dashboards that intuitively visualise actionable data and insight for stakeholders and collaborate with relevant teams to develop business value added solutions.   

We’ll give you on the job training and access to our internal learning platforms and the exposure you need to become commercially savvy and great exposure to BT Group operations. 

This placement is available in the Digital part of our business. 

Duration

Our industrial placements start in September and end in July. You must be ready and able to start this role from the beginning of September 2024 to apply.  

Location

Manchester

Entry requirements

You must be in the Penultimate year of your degree course, on track to achieve a 2.2 degree in a STEM subject which will benefit from a Commercial Data Analyst Industrial Placement. 

About BT

BT Group is the global powerhouse behind EE, BT, Plusnet, and Openreach.  

We value diversity and celebrate difference. We’ll encourage you to be yourself, whatever your background. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’ 

Whichever brand you’re working for, we’re all playing for the same team. And we all enjoy the rewards of being part of something bigger: the opportunities to explore new experiences, pursue different dreams, climb challenging career ladders, and try out different ways of working.  

We’re always looking ahead. We don’t just sell broadband, and networks, and security, and thousands of clever things you’ve never heard of; in our Martlesham labs, we’re inventing the technologies of the future.  

Four brands. One team, 100,000 strong. Together, we’re connecting the world. Come and play your part in building the BT Group of the future, one that will be net zero by 2030.  

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.