Data Administrator (Entry-Level Opportunity) in Northampton

The Data Administrator will support the Head of Data in managing, maintaining, and improving the organisation’s data systems, databases, and reporting infrastructure. This role plays a key part in ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and accessibility — supporting informed decision-making and driving effective use of data across the organisation.

You’ll help maintain high data quality through regular validation, cleansing, and research activities, assist in producing reports and dashboards, and provide data support to teams. This role is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, technically confident, and highly organised, looking to grow within a collaborative, data-driven environment.

• Support the Head of Data in the day-to-day management and maintenance of the organisation’s data systems and databases.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity through regular audits, validation processes, and quality assurance checks.
• Conduct data cleansing activities to identify and resolve errors, discrepancies, or incomplete records.
• Assist in creating and maintaining dashboards, reports, and visualisations using tools such as Power BI and Excel.
• Collaborate with the marketing team to fulfil data requests, support campaign management, and optimise data-driven marketing activities.
• Assist with customer profiling, analysis, and segmentation to support targeted communications and business insights.
• Support internal research projects by collecting, verifying, and analysing multiple datasets to identify key trends and patterns.
• Provide first-line support for data queries, troubleshoot issues, and escalate complex problems when required.
• Promote good data governance practices and ensure compliance with GDPR and other relevant data protection standards.

• Assist the Head of Data in managing and maintaining the organisation’s data warehouse, ensuring all data remains accurate, secure, and up to date.
• Run regular (daily/weekly) validation checks to monitor data quality, identify anomalies, and correct inconsistencies.
• Research, source, and update new data lists to ensure contact information and organisational records remain current and comprehensive.
• Responding to internal data requests, preparing extracts, reports, and insights for teams such as Marketing, Conference Production and Sales.
• Monitor data access and usage to maintain data security and ensure compliance with internal policies.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of data standards, procedures, and policies to help embed a strong data-driven culture across the organisation.

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Experience working with databases, spreadsheets, or reporting tools (e.g., SQL, Excel, Power BI).
• Understanding data quality principles, GDPR, and basic data management practices.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise workload in a fast-paced working environment.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
• Ability to work individually or collaboratively as part of a team.

This role is perfect if you’re detail-oriented and enjoy solving problems, confident using Excel or other data tools (and keen to learn more!), organised, curious, and eager to develop in a supportive team environment. You’ll play a key role in keeping our data accurate, consistent, and easy to use — helping colleagues to make smarter, data-informed decisions. Along the way, you’ll gain hands-on experience with data systems, reporting tools, and real-world projects that build your technical confidence.

• Competitive Salary + Compensation & Benefits:
• 25 days annual leave, plus an extra day for your birthday
• Pension scheme – enhanced employer contribution of 4%
• South Quay office with excellent transport links
• Optional health scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Flexible working hours
• Death-in-service cover
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Annual Christmas and Summer parties and regular Socials

About Ocean Media Group: Living our Values Ocean Media Group is a dynamic and progressive organisation that puts its customers and people first. We create market-leading events and digital information products that help our customers succeed and in turn drive our growth.

Our Mission ‘To create unbeatable insights and experiences to help our customers succeed’ We work towards this goal by living our values in our conduct with all those with whom we interact – customers, employees, business partners, suppliers, competitors, investors and the general public.

Our Core Values Externally, we will: develop exceptional insight into and rapport with our customers ensure that our commitment, authenticity and integrity are clear to all make doing business with us rewarding and a pleasure always strive to deliver the highest of standards Internally, we will: respect and value our people reflect the best of our culture through our teams seek breakthroughs in what we do by constantly challenging ourselves foster and reward personal commitment and creativity Our vision and values guide every action and are the focus of everything we do as we perform our responsibilities.