Analyst, Corporate Strategy

London, England, United Kingdom

11/20/2024

Position Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, analytical, and creative problem solver to join the RELX Strategic Pricing team. Our Strategic Pricing projects help transform pricing strategies and business models. You will collaborate with RELX companies on strategically important, high impact projects, using hypothesis-based approaches to uncover insights that drive improved revenues and profits.

It’s not a typical analyst role! Every week will be different. Working on projects from initial scoping to delivery:

• Honing your data and modelling skills
• Building your consulting skills
• Communicating complex insights and recommendations in simple ways to our internal clients with exposure to diverse businesses, leadership teams and cultures.
  
  

Working across RELX companies and divisions accelerates your development. As well as succession opportunities within our team, we find our analysts have a choice of roles within the RELX portfolio when they’re ready for the next step, based on our reputation for delivering quality work and the internal network they build.

The Team is an internal consulting service to RELX companies – Elsevier, LexisNexis Risk, LexisNexis Legal and Reed Exhibitions (RX). We work with business leaders and their teams to develop go-to-market pricing strategies and analytical insights for many of RELX’s leading and innovative information products.

We are small (7 members), close-knit and high performing, consistently delivering breakthrough insights and actionable recommendations. We value diversity of thought and background. We place high importance on personal development.

Our office is RELX’s Trafalgar Square corporate HQ. We work remotely with occasional meetings in the office or at UK client sites. Some projects are more global in nature which means meetings sometimes won’t fit into UK office hours. We support each other to work flexibly, prioritizing work-life balance and wellbeing.

In The Role You Will Spend Your Time On

Projects (70-80% of the role): Work with RELX Managers to design and manage strategic projects that deliver actionable recommendations for RELX companies Community (10-20% of the role): Build a network of strategic pricing enthusiasts across RELX by collating and disseminating new ideas and innovations Advice (10% of the role): Provide ad hoc support and guidance to RELX business leaders and teams, inspiring analytical curiosity, better customer data capture and improved analytics methodologies

The Company

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.

Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Skills

Must have:

• Proven analytical (quantitative and qualitative) and structured problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to think strategically and tactically – connecting the “big picture” through to operational details
• Creative thinking – producing innovative ideas, analyses, and recommendations
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, with a great sense for how to present data in visual and inspiring ways
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
  
  

Desirable Skill

• Experience working on either strategic pricing or commercial strategy projects
  
  

Behaviours

• Analytically inquisitive – a desire to always explore data, never satisfied that you have found all the insights
• Outstanding attention to detail when working with raw data and presentation materials
• Positive, enthusiastic, and motivated
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Ability to work well and quickly build relationships with cross-functional teams
• Persuasive, collaborative and trust-worthy
• Culturally aware with the ability to communicate and lead projects in multi-cultural environments
• Highly results / output orientated
• A continuous learner who welcomes constructive feedback and is energized by building new skills and taking on new challenges
  
  

Qualifications And Experiences

• Experience in an analytical, financial or strategy role in a management consulting, investment banking or corporate environment
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field e.g., Business, Finance, Economics, Science, Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics
  
  

Desirable Qualifications And Experiences

• Experience working in information, data services and analytics industry
• Experience of working in large, matrix-style, complex corporate environments