Insights, Analytics and Planning Director

Job Description

Insights, Analytics and Planning Director, Sydney or Melbourne.

About Domain and CoStar Group

Domain is a leading property technology and services marketplace that is home to one of the largest portfolios of property brands in Australia, including the Domain, Allhomes and Commercial Real Estate (CRE) platforms. In 2025, Domain became part of CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), a global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, online marketplaces and 3D digital twin technology. Together, Domain and CoStar Group is dedicated to digitising the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

Property is a high engagement category and Domain Residential brands attract 7M-9M people each month. Domain is a challenger in the category and has significant growth upside.

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We've continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

CoStar Group brands include; Homes.com, Apartments.com, CoStar, Loopnet.com, OnTheMarket, Bureaux Locaux, Matterport, Domain, AllHomes and more.

Quick facts; CoStar Group has >8K employees, was founded 39 years ago, and has 84 offices in 13 countries.

About the Role, Accountabilities & Outcomes

As the leader of this function, you will be responsible for generating actionable insights that shape marketing and company strategy internally, and position CoStar Group Australia and its brands as a trusted authority externally.

Accountable for the leading Audience insights, Market research, Segmentation, Economic Research, Spokespeople, and Analytics. A key member of the leadership for Domain’s Marketing, News/Content, and Comms organisation, this role will provide key inputs to Domain’s Residential, Commercial and New Developers Strategy.

• Drive Strategy by bringing together market research, consumer and agent insights, economic research, and analytics to drive strategic recommendations that shape strategy for the Residential and Commercial businesses.

• Development of cross functionally aligned Audience Segmentation that is both strategic and pragmatic to implement across various touchpoints.

• Economic Analysis that ensure Domain and CoStar Group in Australia are the pre-eminent, trusted and authoritative voice in real estate.

• Deliver a trusted and actionable MMM establishment and maintenance to drive effective investments.

• Drive annual strategy and resulting quarterly budget, planning and outcomes tracking for the Marketing, Content and Comms organisation.

• Together with Comms, develop the strategic metrics and narrative, and execute on this on a monthly basis, ensuring you/ your team is the trusted and accountable source of publicly sharable metrics for media, agents, and consumers.

• Leadership of a highly experienced team of researchers, analytics and economists, inspire the team with purpose, implement best practice people management, talent acquisition and retention, high performance culture and efficient ways of working.

• Growth mindset to drive capabilities and best practices, leveraging the latest AI tools to improve ways of working and drive efficiency across the Marketing, News/Content and Comms organisation.

Our Ideal Person

Essentials

• Experience: Proven track record in research, insights and analytics leadership, with > 15 years experience.

• Demonstrated Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical skills and commercial acumen to interpret data, insights, and financials and turn it into actionable insights.

• Communication and Influence: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to drive clarity and influence internal cross functional teams to drive business outcomes.

• Leadership: Experience leading and managing teams. Ability to set vision, expectations, inspire team, attract and develop senior specialist talent and drive high performance and engagement.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.

Preferred

• Experience in Real Estate, Tech, Media, Advertising or Software industries.

• Leadership of a Analytics, Economics, Customer Data or Finance function.

• Experience driving strong local influence in a global organisation.

What's Next?

We'll give your application the thoughtful attention it deserves and get back to you as soon as possible. If there's a match, one of our recruitment consultants will reach out-so keep your phone handy! We're genuinely excited about the chance to work together and make a meaningful impact.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Domain is enthusiastically and unapologetically committed to fostering an equitable, inclusive work culture which reflects our customers and communities. We are proactively looking for candidates from all lived experiences, including people with disability, and people of all ages, ethnicities, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples), faiths, sexual orientations, and gender identities (including trans and non-binary people).

We are committed to providing an equitable recruitment process for people with disability. If you require adjustments during the process we’re here to support. If you wish to receive this job advertisement in an accessible format, or have a confidential chat about workplace adjustments, please contact our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team at edi@domain.com.au or leave a message on 1300 858 356 and we will get back to you.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing