Introduction

　　The Economist is a leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs, published weekly in print and digital editions, and daily through our Espresso app and Economist.com. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to podcasts, conferences, films and digital editions. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world.

　　The Economist is seeking an experienced Tableau professional to join our Business Intelligence Team as a Senior BI Analyst .

　　We use Tableau to create impactful, easy-to-use dashboards, which support key people in the business to make decisions. As part of this team, you will be typically using data sets created by our data engineers, and creating Tableau dashboards to help drive the growth of the business. Presenting your work to the business and influencing them to use your work is a key part of the role.

　　You will translate stakeholder requirements into Tableau dashboards, working in an iterative way. You will use best practice data visualisation guidelines, ensuring content can be consumed by anyone in the business with minimum effort. Our goal is to drive up Tableau dashboard usage to facilitate more data-driven decisions from more people, and to enable self-service BI across all verticals at the Economist.

　　Accountabilities

　　In the role you would be expected to:

　　Deliver impactful dashboards, with data visualisations that drive action in Tableau

　　Present your findings to stakeholders in an engaging way

　　Iterate on dashboards to keep them relevant

　　Identify ways to automate currently manual processes, using Tableau to visualise

　　Share your Tableau knowledge with others across the team and company to help build a Tableau community

　　Help to ensure best practice visualisation standards are employed in the team’s Tableau content

　　Build the right Tableau published data sources to enable self-service BI

　　Gather new business requirements and collaborate closely with our users

　　Build using our template to ensure consistent look and feel for the end user

　　Indicators used to measure success in this role include:

　　Increasing the usage of Tableau dashboards in frequency of usage and number of users

　　Improved ability for our users to make business decisions using data visualisations

　　Measurable increase in the quality of data across BI applications

　　Ease of accessing business information

　　Reduction in ad-hoc reporting / data requests through self-service BI

　　Optimised BI solutions delivered within time, quality and budget constraints

　　Experience, skills and professional attributes

　　To succeed in the role you must have:

　　Extensive experience building and enhancing Tableau workbooks

　　Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills

　　Analytical and problem solving skills with attention to detail

　　High levels of energy, enthusiasm and passion to succeed in a dynamic environment

　　Hands on experience working with Tableau Online (or Server)

　　Experience managing key business stakeholders

　　Knowledge of best practice data visualisation techniques

　　A graduate degree (or equivalent)

　　It would also be desirable if you have:

　　Experience of working with subscription-based data sets and related metrics

　　Previous experience delivering a BI tool migration

　　Experience using Snowflake and SQL

　　Tableau certification

　　Tableau Public profile

　　Job LocationsUnited Kingdom-London

　　ID 2023-9857

　　Function Data, Analysis & Insights