Analytics Placement - 2025

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Insights & Analytics Placement (2025)

The Insights & Analytics Placement at Hearst Networks EMEA offers you the opportunity to combine a love for media with a passion for data analysis. Starting in Summer 2025, this placement helps students develop the skills necessary to analyze and interpret data, informing content strategies and business decisions across the organization.

What the role entails:

• Data Collection and Analysis: Analyze performance metrics from various platforms, including streaming services, social media, and video-on-demand.
• Reporting and Dashboards: Build detailed dashboards and reports to showcase audience behaviors and trends, enabling key stakeholders to make data-driven decisions.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with departments such as Marketing, Programming, and PR to provide actionable insights that influence campaigns and strategies.
• Content Optimization: Use data to assess what content resonates with audiences, helping shape future programming.

What experience you can gain:

• Analytical Skills: Learn how to interpret large data sets and translate them into meaningful insights for media strategies.
• Business Impact: Understand the relationship between audience engagement data and business performance.
• Teamwork and Communication: Work with multiple departments to share insights and contribute to overarching goals.
• Tools and Techniques: Gain hands-on experience with analytics tools and data visualization software, preparing you for a data-focused career.

Who we are looking for:

• Data-Driven Thinkers: Ideal candidates are analytical and comfortable working with numbers and data tools.
• Passionate About Media: A love for understanding audiences and how they interact with content is key.
• Strong Communicators: Ability to explain complex data in an accessible way is essential.
• Detail-Oriented and Curious: A proactive approach to problem-solving and accuracy is important for this role.

Eligibility:

• For Sandwich-Year Students: Open to students on a degree program that includes a placement year.
• Placement Dates: Summer 2025 for a year, returning to university in August 2026. This role will be based in the London Hammersmith office, working 2 days from the office, with the option to work 3 days a week from home.

Application Guidance: 

As part of your application, in addition to your CV we'd like you to include a cover letter. This is your opportunity to tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in this role. You might want to cover things like:

• Why you're drawn to this internship and the field you're applying for.
• What makes you a good fit for the role.
• A project or experience you're proud of and why it stands out to you.These are just examples—feel free to tell us anything you think is relevant to your application and highlights your personality, skills, and interests.

Important: Please avoid using AI tools like ChatGPT to generate your entire cover letter. We want to hear your voice and get a sense of who you are, not a polished response from a machine. We’re looking forward to learning more about you!

This placement is perfect for students looking to merge technical skills with creative media, preparing for roles in data analytics or audience strategy.

Please note that this role is based on audience research rather than production research.

Application Timeline:

• Applications: Open until 3rd Jan.
• Invitations to First Round: w/c 6th Jan
• First Round: Testing will take place w/c 13th / 20th of Jan (depending on exam periods).
• Second Round: Interviews will take place w/c 27th of Jan.
• Offer: Made by end of Jan.

About Us

At Hearst Networks EMEA (previously A+E Networks EMEA), we share stories that matter, inspiring and exciting our audiences with hit US franchises (The Curse of Oak Island, Pawn Stars), must-see docudramas (Royal Kill List and Colosseum), and original commissions (Sex: A Bonkers History with Amanda Holden, Royal Autopsy, Cops Gone Bad with Will Mellor). Over the past few years, we’ve championed our own original programming and relished in the successes of recent series’ such as The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd, Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Royal Mob.

We welcome talented candidates with infectious enthusiasm who love what they do, and are ready to learn, develop and thrive. Here you’ll find a community of innovative, creative and inspiring people who aren’t afraid to embrace responsibility and try new things collaboratively, as a team.

We are a certified Great Place to Work® with a can-do, motivated culture that believes in working to live, not just living to work. Every employee has a voice and is encouraged to be themselves and be ambitious. With offices in Rome, Madrid, London, Warsaw, Munich and Johannesburg, we are a truly international organisation that celebrates difference and diversity.

As an inclusive employer, we value the diversity of our teams and want our workforce to reflect our wider society. We encourage and welcome applications from people from under-represented backgrounds and are keen to make sure we are inclusive and accessible to all. Pease do let us know if you require any adjustments or assistance for meetings and communications with you when you apply for a role with us.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.