Data Analyst and Market Insights

Market Intelligence & Data Analyst

Location: Dublin, Ireland 3 Days onsite per Week

Role Type: Full-time, Permanent

Visa Must be EU Citizen or Valid Stamp 4 Visa - There is no sponsorship for this role

About the Role

The Market Intelligence & Data Analyst is a specialist analytical role focused on converting complex internal and external datasets into clear, evidence-based insights to inform business strategy and policy engagement. This position is designed to strengthen overall data-led market intelligence capabilities, with a particular emphasis on housing delivery, market capacity, infrastructure, planning, policy implementation, and real estate market trends.

This is an individual contributor analytical insight role rather than a research management position. The successful candidate will be directly responsible for developing and maintaining data dashboards, interrogating quantitative and qualitative datasets, identifying emerging trends and risks, and producing concise evidence-based outputs for executive leadership, policy teams, and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Dashboard & BI Development: Build and maintain interactive market intelligence dashboards tracking key housing delivery indicators, commencements, completions, planning activity, infrastructure capacity, mortgage trends, and market sentiment.
• Data Interrogation & Insight: Interrogate large internal and external datasets to spot market trends, risks, and commercial opportunities that inform executive decision-making.
• Executive & Stakeholder Briefings: Produce concise briefing packs, data summaries, talking points, data visualisations, and evidence notes for senior executive and stakeholder engagements.
• Market Tracking: Monitor and map national, regional, and local housing delivery patterns across all delivery channels.
• Data Translation: Translate complex datasets, public policy documents, and market research into clear, executive-ready outputs (short written briefs, visual summaries, and board slides).
• Public Affairs & Policy Support: Assist in preparing external-facing submissions, policy consultation documents, fact sheets, and public communications, ensuring all statements are supported by current, accurate data.
• Ad-Hoc Strategic Analysis: Provide fast-turnaround data analysis for executive requests, policy campaigns, board papers, and strategic business reviews.
• Data Audit & Methodology: Maintain a structured evidence base and audit trail for all data outputs, documenting sources, methodologies, and assumptions to ensure high data integrity.

The Candidate

• Education: Third-level qualification in Economics, Data Analytics, Statistics, Public Policy, Finance, Real Estate, or a related discipline.
• Technical Skills:
  • Advanced Excel skills required.
  • Strong proficiency with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and data querying/analytical languages (SQL, Python, or R) is strongly advantageous.
• Analytical Capability: Proven experience interrogating large, varied datasets and translating complex numbers into actionable commercial and policy insights.
• Domain Context: Experience or strong interest in housing markets, public policy, planning systems, residential development, infrastructure, or institutional investment (Irish market context preferred).
• Communication: Exceptional written and visual communication skills with a track record of creating board-ready slides, charts, and executive briefing notes.
• Detail & Accuracy: Meticulous approach to data precision, source tracking, and methodology documentation.
• Work Style: Proactive, commercially curious, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with short deadlines and executive visibility.

What We Offer

• Highly competitive salary package with annual review
• Performance-related bonus scheme
• Pension scheme with matching company contributions
• Comprehensive health insurance cover
• Continuous Professional Development (CPD) funding and support
• Generous paid parental leave options
• Paid annual leave allowance
• Life assurance and income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• TaxSaver travel pass and Bike-to-Work schemes
• Professional talent development programmes

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