Researcher

                                                      Researcher - Digital Infrastructure 

£35,000 - £40,000

Hybrid

London

Leading media business intelligence organisation seeks talented researcher to join their team.

The primary purpose of this role is to lead the research and buildout of a comprehensive database for digital infrastructure, using publicly available information, and validating this wherever possible.

Since data is available online in various formats, the researcher might need to employ web scraping tools to automate some aspects of data collection and validation, as well as contacting directly, some of the major companies in key geo-markets.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as an expert to retrieve and organise data from the web focused initially on digital infrastructure.
• Extract data publicly available on websites or through documents available for download.
• Contacting the major companies/owners and researching site information and validating web-researched data.
• Analyse our client’s own library of /digital infrastructure and feed-in relevant data where appropriate.
• Liaise with the editorial team on upcoming relevant content.
• Utilize web scraping applications to automate data extraction.
• Monitor changes in website structures or data formats to keep information updated.
• Manually retrieve data from public websites where web scraping tools cannot be used.
• Create data extraction and data monitoring processes.
• Validate extracted data to ensure it is relevant, complete, and free of errors.
• Oversee and maintain the infrastructure supporting web scraping processes, which includes system performance monitoring, data backups, and troubleshooting any emerging issues.
• Continually optimize data extraction processes to improve their speed, efficiency, and reliability while minimizing the impact on the target websites.

Profile of Experience:

• Experience in market research, ideally with a focus on digital infrastructure - 1 year +
• Strong web searching skills
• Experience with off-the-shelf web scraping tools is a major advantage 
• Capable of working independently and collaborating effectively across teams ensuring timely and successful projects completion.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Receptive to sharing, receiving, and implementing feedback.
• Fast learner, detail and results oriented. Organizational and communication (verbal and written) skills in English.

Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.