Business Intelligence Analyst

We are searching for a BI Analyst to help us bring valuable insights to the whole business. You will need to create smart Tableau dashboards and connect data sources in informative analyses.

Studyportals Headquarters is in Strijp-S, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Flexibility to work hybrid from our office in Eindhoven.

About Studyportals. 

We change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. Every minute 100 students from around the world trust our platforms (e.g., mastersportal.com) to find their best matching education for free. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population and reduce dropouts. 

With forty different nationalities among the 150 people working at Studyportals, we are an international bunch of people. Eager to learn and serious about fun. Want to know more? 

Why are we searching for you?

We accumulate loads and loads of data. We want to make informed choices throughout the business. Thus, we need you to connect the dots and help us understand.

We want you to create and maintain high-quality data products and data models that the business can use to find out about what our clients need, what students in the world need and look for. Valuable information that is available anytime and for anyone who might need it. We also need someone to explain the statistics & graphs and help to interpret them. Thus, good communication skills are necessary and wanted.

On the other side, you will need to talk to data- and software engineers. To understand our product, but also to explain our data needs for developing the next great thing.

By taking this on, you will be helping everyone at Studyportals to make informed data-driven decisions based on high-quality data products and with that you will help thousands of students everywhere.

What does your team look like?

At Studyportals, the Big Data & Business Intelligence Team is responsible for delivering quality data for the rest of the company. You will be joining an existing team of four members – a Big Data Team Lead reporting to the CTO, two Data Analytics Engineers, and a Data Engineer. All very smart people! Big Data is part of the Product Engineering department that is about 40 in size. As the BI expert you will be at the top of the data-value pyramid. You will disseminate insights and information that the team creates to the whole company from sales to marketing. This will help us fulfill our team’s mission: to create a data-driven company.

What are your responsibilities and tasks?

• Distill and present the information that is needed to continue sustainable growth for Studyportals
• Understand the questions that our business is trying to answer to develop analyses and dashboards with all the answers
• Connecting different data sources and creating storytelling in Tableau dashboards and presentations
• Cater to the complete development cycle of a data product from data cleaning and modelling to enabling colleagues to use it
• Provide the business with actionable insights through brilliant analyses
• Communicate your findings in a digestible way to truly make an impact

• You can develop SQL scripts and dbt models to prepare the data just right
• You can build visualizations and dashboards in Tableau that really get the message across, and you can manage a Tableau environment
• You love to discuss your stakeholders’ questions and never give up about finding the best answer to their true question.
• You are analytical, methodical and not afraid of dirty data
• I'm looking for an excellent communicator. Someone with a positive and proactive mindset (love it, change it, or leave it). You are dedicated and you never give up
• Experience in e-commerce or digital marketplace are a plus
• Comprehensive skills in SQL is a must, in a relevant other language (like Python) is a plus, as well as experience with complex data structures
• You should feel at home in an agile environment.
• Fluent in English, we are a strongly international team with 40+ nationalities in-house!
• 3 or more years of experience in business intelligence

• Competitive salary including a bonus and pension.
• 32 vacation days (including bank holidays) you have the flexibility to take your holidays whenever you want (e.g., be off on Chinese New Year instead of King’s Day)
• Reimbursement of your work-related travel costs.
• Flexibility to work remotely 3 days per week, including a remote working allowance.
• Possibility to work from abroad 2 times a year.
• An annual personal development budget because personal growth is KEY!
• A nice and fun office in the heart of Eindhoven; five minutes’ walk away from the station