Econometrician - Marketing Effectiveness

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

This role sits within our econometrics team, who help the business measure the effectiveness and efficiency of our business strategies. These learnings will be applied to help shape British Gas and Hive’s overall marketing strategy. You’ll be responsible for delivering accurate and appropriate models, and interpret the analysis to create concise, insightful recommendations. The role is varied, with exposure across the business and will involve working closely commercial, finance, marketing and data science. This role is hybrid working with fortnightly travel to Windsor, Berkshire.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the current econometrics team to build and update a suite of econometric/MMM models for British Gas and Hive products and turn outputs into actionable insights to drive value

• Analyse large datasets to quantify the impact of marketing spend on key business outcomes, such as sales, customer acquisition

• Assist in ad hoc projects as advised by your line manager and other stakeholders

• Interpret the analysis to create concise, insightful stakeholder communications (presentations, documentation etc), being able to create and develop a narrative that is consistent with the data gathered

• Ensure projects and deadlines are met in line with the business needs

• Extensive work with Big Data, econometrics, Statistics, and Marketing Mix Modelling

Key Requirements

• Experience in Big Data analysis, econometrics, statistics and Marketing Mix Modelling in a professional environment

• Good knowledge of media, marketing, pricing and promotions and an understanding of their commercial impact

• Programming skills, particularly in Eviews, Python, R, or SQL, are advantageous

• Highly competent with Microsoft Office especially Excel, PowerPoint and Word

• An understanding of media planning and buying and optimisation techniques would be beneficial

• Excellent attention to detail

• Ability to multitask and coordinate multiple projects at once

• Be able to communicate in a professional environment

Why join?

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;

• Competitive salary and bonus potential

• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap

• Pension scheme

• Company Funded Healthcare Plan

• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days

• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.