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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