- Role: Industry & Economy Analyst
- Role type: Permanent
- Role hours: Full time (37.5 hours)
- Location: Leeds
- Salary: £25- £35k
- Deadline: 6th June 2025 (we will interview before this date, so apply ASAP)
The opportunity:
We are hiring for two Industry Analysts.
These are full-time, permanent roles.
Our RTICs are essential to our business and future growth, we are looking for; curious, engaged, bright individuals to join our team to; build, review, QA and update these. You will be working alongside our multi-specialist team of Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Web-Developers, Data Scientists, Software Developers and Marketeers.
This is an opportunity to learn, develop and hone your skills in a bleeding-edge innovative data business that is changing the world of economics and cities, using data science and artificial intelligence.
Who we are:
The Data City is a tech scale up, a SaaS provider of business data to Government and the private sector. We develop definitive economic insights using Open Data, The Web, and Artificial Intelligence.
We are building one of the world’s most valuable data assets, measuring economic growth, innovation, and investment. We are disrupting how decisions are made about economic policy and investments in our cities and towns; our ambition is global.
We are based in Leeds and operate across the UK, working with a wide range of national and local government organisations and private companies. Our next stage of growth involves the development of a global product.
About you:
You are capable, curious, ambitious and interested in helping us build the world’s best data products, measuring investment, innovation and the economic structures of our cities and towns, and tell stories to help our customers and generate interest in our products.
What you’ll be doing:
- You will conduct desk-based research on the emerging economy to identify new RTIC sectors and suggest improvements to current RTICs.
- You will apply this desk-based research when creating/updating our RTICs using our Platform.
- You will use our propriety platform to help deliver high value customer facing projects.
- You will support with quality assurance and maintenance of our RTICs.
- You will write blogs and thought pieces about our RTICs and the emerging economy in general.
- You will be part of our team collaborating to make the product better, shaping the questions we should answer, seeing the wider work the team are doing and its impact.
Your Qualifications & Experience:
- An interest in politics, global trends, desk research, and the emerging economy.
- An organised and methodical approach to task completion including good planning, prioritisation, and time management skills.
- The ability to research and work independently with strong attention to detail and commitment to fact checking your own work.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a clear writing style.
- If you speak any foreign languages let us know! (desirable)
- You have experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) or other low code/no code analytics platform (desirable).
What we will provide:
- Opportunity to work in a world leading data science and economics scale-up with big ambitions and the team to deliver these.
- An extensive Vitality healthcare package.
- Medicash plan.
- Nest pension.
- Guidance on your work with autonomy to create and implement your ideas.
- The tools, computers, and software, that you need to do a great job.
- A personalised plan focused on supporting you to deliver YOUR best.
Next steps:
Please send: a cover letter, no more than one page, and a CV to: [email protected]
Examples of your work are expected and alternatives to a standard CV are very much encouraged, but please keep them short.
1st stage – interviews will be done as a short phone call, circa 15 minutes– only prep required would be to research our company.
2nd stage – a task will be set involving your using our platform to create insight around a specific focus, you would return this ahead of interview – where the team would discuss your work with you. This would be an in-person meeting to ensure team fit.
We will be interviewing for this role before the deadline, therefore you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
We are open to flexible/part-time and other options – please do apply as we want to make this position as accessible as possible.