Marketing Analyst

Career Area: Marketing and Public Relations

Occupation Group: Marketing Specialists

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Marketing Analyst earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $70,649

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $68,547

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Performs research and gathers data to help a company market its products or services. They gather data on consumer demographics, preferences, needs, and buying habits. They evaluate data using statistical techniques and software.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Marketing Analyst is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.
• Research: Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Marketing: Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.
• SQL: SQL ( ESS-kew-EL or SEE-kwl, Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Data Analysis: Data analysis, also known as analysis of data or data analytics, is a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision-making.
• Market Research: Market research (also in some contexts known as Industrial Research) is any organized effort to gather information about target markets or customers.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Marketing Analyst that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Consumer Behavior: Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organizations and the processes they use to select, secure, use, and dispose of products, services, experiences, or ideas to satisfy their needs and wants.
• Competitive Analysis: Experience identifying competitors and evaluating their competitive position using industry methodologies such as Porter's 5 forces of competitve analysis

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Marketing Analyst
• Senior Marketing Analyst
• Junior Marketing Team
• Analyst - Marketing
• Senior Analyst, Insights And Analytics

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