Data Quality Control Analyst

Media help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.

Kantar Media is a wholly owned but operationally independent part of the Kantar Group.

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As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.

Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Job Title: Quality Control Analyst

Location: London, Grays Inn Road

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At Kantar Media Audiences we are proud to be the official provider of TV viewing data for all the broadcast channels in the UK. We have a role for a member of the Quality Control (QC) Team as a QC Analyst.

BARB (The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board) is responsible for the measurement of the number of people watching television in the UK, on behalf of the television companies and the advertising industry.

The BARB Operations team is responsible for delivering daily TV ratings to the UKs broadcast industry and associated agencies. This is the UK’s currency measurement, and the service is contracted out by BARB (Broadcasters Audience Research Board) to research companies that perform this function for them. There are currently 8000 homes on the BARB panel from which viewing data is collected daily. In addition to the information collected about viewing of broadcast content on the TV set, a separate piece of equipment called a Focal Meter is used to capture online viewing from each of our broadband homes. 

Tasks & Responsibilities

This role is for a QC Analyst within a team of 7.

• Evaluating the data received from BARB homes and taking a decision on whether there are any potential faults that need to be followed up.
• Reviewing data collected from new homes and deciding on whether a home has passed all the vital checks and criteria to become a live home on the active panel.
• Collaborating closely with internal Panel Admin Team and external field engineers to progress issues precluding homes from reporting accurately.
• Helping to provide information and guidance to field engineers on the source of problems causing issues with data quality.
• Using a wide of tools and dashboards to investigate issues that might have a detrimental impact on data quality.
• Perform investigations to understand any unusual trends or patterns of viewing behaviour observed in daily results.
• Supervise the performance and efficiency of other members of the BARB team including technicians and data entry
• Ensuring that all procedures are carried out in accordance with the client specification
• Undertake QC activities within specified timeframes to ensure that contracts Service Level Agreements are satisfied

Your profile and key skills we are looking for

• Good knowledge and experience in Microsoft office tools, especially Excel, Access and Power BI.
• Experience of running statistical data analyses in a previous role or to satisfy an academic qualification.
• Familiarity with various tools and dashboards used for data investigation and quality control. Preferred but not essential (SQL/Python)
• Ability to evaluate and interpret data accurately to identify potential faults and unusual trends.
• Good time management skills.
• A confident person and with good communication skills
• Would need to be prepared to work unsociable hours on a rota basis at weekends and bank-holidays.

Our offer

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based on a simple, clear, and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay-for-performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, and accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well-being is taken into consideration.  We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and a broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients.  Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate because of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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Why join Kantar?

We pride ourselves on understanding people, and what makes us think and act the way we do.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.