Insights & Analytics University Student Placement 2025

Key Responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with various departments, including Programming, Marketing, PR, Advertising Sales, Commercial, to provide regular updates on channel and programme performance. This includes delivering regular reporting and responding to specific queries about programmes and channels.
• Overseeing the maintenance and updates of team dashboards and channel databases (both linear and digital), ensuring data accuracy, monitoring trends, and identifying changes for regular reporting.
• Creating detailed daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports to a high standard, providing insights to the broader business on platform performance, including digital platforms.
• Monitoring premiere performance across channel brands, maintaining an accurate premiere database, and working with brand teams to provide comprehensive end-of-series reports.
• Analysing Video on Demand (VOD) data from multiple sources and preparing reports to help the business understand the success and usage of VOD content.
• Participating in and supporting ad hoc research projects, contributing to decision-making.

THINK NEXT

• Embrace and anticipate change
• Invent for tomorrow
• Challenge the status quo
• Identify future trends and seize opportunities
• Be ambitious, don’t be afraid to aim for bigger and better

OWN IT

• Commit to your idea and run with it
• Embrace responsibility
• Everyone has a voice at all levels in the organisation
• Be brave, be daring - overcome obstacles
• Acknowledge mistakes and learn from them

FIGHT AS A FAMILY, WIN AS A TEAM

• Be passionate about your ideas
• Challenge, collaborate and unite
• Celebrate everyone’s success
• Build friendships – we work at our best when we’re in it together

LOVE WHAT YOU DO

• When you love what you do, your enthusiasm is infectious
• Be proud of our brand and bring it to life
• Channel your heart and passion into everything you do

BE YOU

• Let your personality shine
• Be honest with yourself and with others
• Champion differences in people
• Keep developing your potential

We are looking for someone who has / is:

• Highly numerate with excellent written communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to edit own work.
• Involvement working on a research project that included working with data sets, drawing conclusions and writing up and presenting findings.
• Strong MS Office skills (Excel and PowerPoint).
• Experience with Power BI or other visualization tools preferred.
• Ability to prioritise tasks, meet deadlines and undertake various administrative duties.
• A passion for TV, media, and programming!

Eligibility:

• Must be an undergraduate student in a sandwich year course, due to start their placement year in Summer 2025 and to return to study in Autumn 2026.
• Studying for a degree that is relevant to the role.
• Preferred, grade 6 and above in GCSE Math’s & English.

Application Guidance:
As part of your application, in addition to your CV we'd like you to include a cover letter. This is your opportunity to tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in this role. You might want to cover things like:

• Why you're drawn to this internship and the field you're applying for.
• What makes you a good fit for the role.
• A project or experience you're proud of and why it stands out to you.

These are just examples—feel free to tell us anything you think is relevant to your application and highlights your personality, skills, and interests.

Important: Please avoid using AI tools like ChatGPT to generate your entire cover letter. We want to hear your voice and get a sense of who you are, not a polished response from a machine. We’re looking forward to learning more about you!


Application Timeline:

• Applications: Open until 3^rd Jan.
• Invitations to First Round: w/c 6^th Jan
• First Round: Testing will take place w/c 13th / 20th of Jan (depending on exam periods).
• Second Round: Interviews will take place w/c 27^th of Jan.
• Offer: Made by end of Jan.

Are you a problem solver who enjoys working with numbers?
Would you like to work in media?
Are you naturally curious?
We want to hear from you! Our undergraduate placements are now open for our UK office.

At Hearst Networks EMEA, our Insights and Analytics Intern is uniquely positioned to work across all areas of the business with exposure to our linear channel brands (inc. Sky History, Crime + Investigation & BLAZE), digital products such as our PLAY streaming services, video-on-demand (VOD) platforms and social media.

Our internship allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to work that will have a tangible impact on the business, ranging from day-to-day reporting to meaningful projects that help to shape the strategic vision of teams across the company.

This role is suited to students looking to start their placement year in Summer 2025, and please note that it is based on audience research rather than production research. Please scroll to the end for application timeline details.

This role will be based in the London Hammersmith office working 2 days from the office, with the option to work 3 days a week from home.

At Hearst Networks EMEA, we share stories that matter, inspiring and exciting our audiences with hit US franchises (The Curse of Oak Island, Pawn Stars), must-see docudramas (Royal Kill List and Colosseum), and original commissions (Sex: A Bonkers History with Amanda Holden, Royal Autopsy, Cops Gone Bad with Will Mellor). Over the past few years, we’ve championed our own original programming and relished in the successes of recent series’ such as The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd, Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Royal Mob.

We welcome talented candidates with infectious enthusiasm who love what they do, and are ready to learn, develop and thrive. Here you’ll find a community of innovative, creative and inspiring people who aren’t afraid to embrace responsibility and try new things collaboratively, as a team.

We are a certified Great Place to Work® with a can-do, motivated culture that believes in working to live, not just living to work. Every employee has a voice and is encouraged to be themselves and be ambitious. With offices in Rome, Madrid, London, Warsaw, Munich and Johannesburg, we are a truly international organisation that celebrates difference and diversity.

As an inclusive employer, we value the diversity of our teams and want our workforce to reflect our wider society. We encourage and welcome applications from people from under-represented backgrounds and are keen to make sure we are inclusive and accessible to all. Pease do let us know if you require any adjustments or assistance for meetings and communications with you when you apply for a role with us.