Data Assistant
Turn data into insight that shapes big brand decisions. Grow fast, learn loads, and make your mark at SMG
Location: Nottingham, fully remote
Salary: From £24k + 10% discretionary bonus
Level: Assistant/Associate level
About the Role
You’ll support our Insight team in delivering a high volume of campaign evaluations, helping brands understand what drives success. From preparing and cleansing data to ensuring every report is accurate and actionable, your work will be essential in powering smart decisions and driving performance.
If you love variety, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and embrace change with energy, this could be the right role for you.
Why SMG?
At SMG, we hire for the future, which is fast-moving and changing shape. Do you have the potential to help shape our business? We’re looking for brilliant, diverse talent who want to grow with us—people who are curious, ambitious, and eager to learn, whether as specialists or across teams.
Our culture is everything. If you’re someone who stays honest, stays hungry, stays foolish, and has fun, you’ll feel right at home here.
We value those who take ownership of their growth and bring fresh perspectives. That’s why we’re committed to equity, inclusion, and building a place where everyone feels empowered to grow. At SMG, it’s not just about filling a role but building the future together.
We’re proud to be ranked the #1 Best Marketing and Media Agency and to have received World-Class accreditation from Best Companies.
- 10% discretionary bonus
- £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!)
- Free Headspace subscription
- £500 yearly “Learning Fund” for learning
- 4 extra Wellbeing Days off per year
- Summer & Winter conferences + year-round celebrations
- 4pm finishes every Friday
- Flexible and hybrid working
Are We What You’re Looking For?
We move fast, adapt quickly, and like to challenge each other. We're looking for people who enjoy the buzz of change, the satisfaction of building something better, and the joy of working with a close-knit, values-driven team.
This isn’t for everyone, but if you thrive in this environment, we’d love to meet you!
A Little Bit About You
You’ll bring:
- A keen eye for detail - the ability to spot errors or inconsistencies
- Strong numeracy skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Some Excel skills (with a desire to learn more!)
- Experience using programming languages such as Python is nice to have, but not essential
Don’t meet every single requirement? We still want to hear from you. If you believe you’d thrive in this role, your unique perspective might be just what we’re looking for.
What You’ll Be Doing
Your days will be dynamic. You might find yourself:
- Extract and format large sets of sales data
- Gather all additional information required to run evaluations into a briefing form
- Run, analyse, and collate results for in-store, digital, and e-comm evaluation campaigns
- Upload analyses onto our in-house data platform, Plan-Apps
- Help in ensuring the data cleanliness of all data on Plan-Apps so that all evaluations are detailed & accurate
Our Values:
Stay honest. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Have fun.
Explore what that means to us here
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- Department
- Insight
- Locations
- Nottingham, Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Life at SMG
Our workplace culture is super important to us and we have a team dedicated to making SMG a great place to work. Whether it's Wellbeing Wednesday, a virtual quiz, or giving back to our charity partner The Trussell Trust, there is always something going on here at SMG. Take a look at some of the things we've been up to on our Life at SMG page.
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