Research & Data Analyst
JOB SUMMARY
The Research & Data Analyst analyzes and reports on labor markets, skill sets, and industries to inform how, where, and why Allegis Group and its partners navigate growth, change and opportunity.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
General Responsibilities
- Act as a subject matter expert in key industries, value offerings, services, and skillsets
- Monitor internal, external analytics and utilize data to evaluate market conditions or communicate trends on a scheduled or ad hoc basis
- Take, define, and manage work requests and provide consultation to ensure the correct solution is applied to the request such as resource recommendations or a consultant offering
- Contribute to and collaborate on project teams across departments
- Interview subject matter experts across the company to identify, validate or update relevant trends and challenges to Allegis Group’s business and clients
- Work in collaboration with the organization to understand business issues, identify valuable areas of analysis and develop reports that analyze data to support effective rapid decision making.
Research and Analysis
- Research and analyze actionable insights from external vendor reporting sources, media and industry content and internal data sources to identify or validate trends and patterns
- Research products or requests can include but are not limited to:
- Impacts to hiring in key industries and/or labor categories
- Factors impacting labor supply and demand trends in a marketplace or nationwide
- Business drivers and challenges
- Growth opportunity in a certain sector or category
- Strategic decision-making options
- Synthesizing large amounts of data into digestible reporting or analysis
- Analyze data products to answer questions or resolve problems, identify trends, KPI development, and enhance data applications
Data Visualization & Governance
- Develop expertise in data visualization products to be able to utilize in daily tasks and projects as well as train partner teams and individuals on their use
- Promote existing and new data visualization products, craft best practices for leveraging data within them, and capture feedback and testimonials to drive production adoption
- Audit market or internal data products on dashboards and spreadsheets for anomalies and errors
- Automate and democratize research and analysis to provide at-your-fingertips data insights
- Audit market or internal data products on dashboards and spreadsheets for anomalies and errors
- Use basic to moderate statistical methods to analyze data and generate useful business reports
- Analyze large data sets to better understand trends, relationships between variables, and to formulate predictive and/or prescriptive insights
MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/ABILITIES/SKILLS
- BA or BS degree in Economics, Business, Marketing or Geography preferred
- 1 year of experience in a research or data analysis role
- Understanding of labor market economics and business cycles strongly preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Exposure to Tableau, PowerBI, or similar data visualization platforms a plus
- Must be comfortable with ambiguity around data sources and range of possible outcomes
- Must be comfortable asking for, accepting, and providing constructive feedback
- Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration outside of your own team/department
- Demonstrated capacity to work independently while managing workflow and delivery on multiple projects or requests
- Demonstrated effective time management and work prioritization experience
- Strong written and verbal communication with the ability to relay, present data and research to executive leadership
COMPETENTICES
- Complex problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Competitive Spirit/Passion
- Technical Learning
- Presentation Skills / Effective Communication