Commercial Analyst

Company Description
Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.
Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.

We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.

Job Description
We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Analyst to join our team on a 5-month paternity leave contract. The Commercial Analyst role sits within a small group of specialist analysts within the Commerce team who work across all of Nine’s Platforms to provide unified reporting and commercial insights to a range of stakeholders.

The Commerce team is the operational support team within the Nine Advertising Sales division.

Commerce provides Sales team support through working with Sales leadership to define business goals, providing insights and data-led strategies.

Role responsibilities

• Delivery of yield, inventory and revenue reporting and insights to monitor commercial product performance
• Work with Nine’s internal technology teams and other stakeholders to mine and query a range of large datasets
• Data driven evaluation of business growth opportunities
• Delivery of commercial modelling and business cases
• Delivery of recommendations to support strategic commercial decision-making
• Own delivery of inventory forecasting models for a range of Nine’s assets, with purpose to support revenue outcomes
• Bring creative problem solving to ongoing business issues
• Work with pricing, yield and inventory teams to develop revenue strategy, supported by deep audience and inventory insights
• Work with programming and product teams to model audience growth and impact on inventory opportunity
• Enact responsibility as a key internal stakeholder with revenue outcomes and sales team/client experience top of mind
• Analyse market trends and competitor landscape to identify growth opportunities
• Provide recommendations into the operational design of new products covering how inventory and avails will be forecasted, sales processes, delivery workflows and product performance reporting
• Maintain a range of existing system processes & inventory tools
• Ad hoc analysis as required

Qualifications

• Essential qualifications, experience & skills
• Minimum three years experience with a proven analytical background
• Experience working with managing, merging and querying large datasets (BigQuery preferred)
• High level knowledge of SQL and Python query languages and MS Excel/ Google Sheets
• Structured thinker and creative problem solver
• Highly numerate with the ability to analyse information and produce data-driven recommendations for important business decisions
• Strong attention to detail and advanced Excel skills
• Excellent commercial acumen and experience operating as a trusted Commercial Advisor
• BI reporting tools – Tableau and Looker preferred
• BI reporting tools – Tableau and Looker preferred
• Desirable experience & skills
• Media experience preferable, but not essential

Additional Information
Being part of our Nine Sales team means you will benefit from:

Sales Incentive Scheme that rewards and recognises performance & success.
Sales Academy – our bespoke training and development program for Sales.
Offices in the heart of North Sydney – within our building are our news and filming studios where all the action happens - plus views of the Harbour!
Complimentary subscriptions to all our platforms including Sydney Morning Herald, AFR, The Age, Brisbane Times and WA today.
Exclusive invitations to Nine Events – whether you are a fan of Nine’s top rating entertainment programmes or the NRL, it could be you sitting in the audience!

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.