Research Analyst, StuRents
Research
£40-50k
2+ days a week in office (Union Street, London)
The UK's leading student accommodation search, property management and data insights platform.
Otta Certified
Open for applications
The UK's leading student accommodation search, property management and data insights platform.
21-100 employees
Otta Certified
Open for applications
£40-50k
2+ days a week in office (Union Street, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help students find accommodation quickly and easily.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a natural communicator and already have lots of experience in communicating directly with customers
- You are comfortable with writing about complex subject matter in a concise and friendly way - it’s important that our customers can look at your data reports and understand them straight away (without confusing them)
- You have bags of experience in using Excel to run analysis (Vlookups, Sumifs), and are familiar with SQL, and Powerbi
- You’re excited about being customer facing in a way that is able to inspire prospective customers to use your analysis / reports. Equally you’re comfy proactively prospecting, ideating and driving forward new products and analysis to further grow business opportunities
- You have an innate high attention to detail and can write proficiently about sector trends
- You have an analytical mind and are happy to challenge (and have challenged) the status quo in your analysis
- You’re naturally curious and excited about diving into unique data to tell a story and inform customers
- You’re an independent problem-solver, are self-directed and a keen multitasker with a knack for organising and prioritising your work effectively
- You have agility ability. Proactively willing and able to flex your style and articulate things to people at all levels and teams within the company
- You value working autonomously. Innately taking initiative and are happy to get stuck into tasks with minimal guidance, direction or support
- You’re eager to learn and get stuck into a fast-paced and supportive environment, making your mark
- You are excited to be part of a growing company, changing how the sector operates
What the job involves
- You’ll work with the Head of Research and the wider research team to support the continued growth of the company
- You will work closely with the research team to fulfil ad-hoc customer requests, providing data and analysis on the student sector
- You will be involved in a number of initiatives including but not limited to the production of our quarterly market reports, monthly research newsletter, market blogs, occupancy survey and wider research content
- Additional day-to-day tasks will include maintaining and expanding existing databases and proactively looking at how to expand our capabilities
- You will also work closely with the Marketing and Business Development teams
Application process
- 30 min informal chat with Richard (head of research) or Aisling (research analyst) on the phone
- 1st round you will be sent a short case study to analyse some data. If successful you’ll progress to a 2nd round in person interview
- 2nd round interview with Richard and Callum (our research analyst) to discuss your case study findings, we will share more about the role and company and learn a little more about you (~60 mins, in person)
- Final interview with Richard, Andrea (our people person) and potentially one of our founders, to chat about your experience and culture contribution (~60 mins, in person)
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
StuRents enable students to find accommodation. Having been established in 2008, the company has grown organically since then and now lists over 700,000 rooms in over 100 towns and cities across the UK
Unlike other rental platforms, like Rightmove and Zoopla, StuRents doesn't just allow agencies to use their platform. Instead, they also accept private landlords and purpose-built student accommodation operators, ensuring a broad range of options are made available to house-hunting students. Ultimately, this has levelled the playing field for these groups to compete for student tenants
Moreover, StuRents distinguishes itself further by offering an end to end property management software (Concurrent.co.uk) to facilitate the full range of operational needs, such as contract signing, rent collection, referencing and deposit protection.
The data generated by the marketing and end-to-end services also allows StuRents to offer industry-leading research and data insights to institutional clients such as banks, developers and real-estate investors
Overall, this approach has successfully enabled StuRents to stand out from both the bigger, more established competitors as well as the increasing number of specialist property platforms. Their success is supported by the fact they are now the leading rental platform in the student letting market
Insights
Most candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
38% female employees
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"If I could go back in time, I'd apply for StuRents again. Good team that make a good product, valued by the clients. Every day there's something new..."
Company benefits
- Company pension contributions (with access to increased company pension contribution after 3 years of employment).
- Work from home opportunities (maximum 3 days per week).
- 24 days holiday (excl. bank holidays). Increasing to 26 days after 3 years, an additional day each year thereafter up to 30 days per year.
- Work from abroad for up to 2 weeks a year after 1 year of employment.
- Access to a private practising UK GP plus contributions to annual eye tests & flu jabs.
- 24/7 counselling advice and information line + 6 private therapy sessions.
- Up to £650 per year to invest in your Individual learning after 1.5 years of employment.
- Access to our employee discounts with over 3,000 exclusive discounts and offers.
- Monthly team lunches and quarterly all-company socials.
- £360 office desk and chair expense policy for remote working.
Company HQ
London, UK
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Founders
Micheal Rainsford
(Co-Founder)After graduating from Durham, they spent 5 years as a Commodities Trader at Morgan Stanley, leaving this role in 2014 to work on StuRents full time.
Tom Walker
(Co-Founder)Tom spent time at PwC and Merrill Lynch following graduation from Durham University and started working on StuRents in 2014.
Mike Lehan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Mike has been working in Web Application Development for 12+ years. They have a strong desire to train & mentor the next generation of web engineers, and is a regular speaker at meetups & conferences.
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