Senior Data Analyst

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JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: 12 month Fixed-term Contract, Full-time / Attachment.
DEPARTMENT: Chief Customer Officer Group
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House, Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £45,000-£55,000 + London weighting; depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE The BBC offers some of the most popular services online and offline, reaching 95% of UK adults every month. We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to help us to maximise the value we deliver to the UK population through the BBC’s portfolio. You’ll join the Central Analytics team in the Chief Customer Officer Group which also includes Research, Marketing and the Licence Fee Unit. You will also closely collaborate with other divisions including Content, Strategy and Product.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
In this exciting and varied role, you will have the opportunity to work on projects across the whole BBC portfolio to uncover customer insights that empower data-driven decision-making and build new data solutions to support our self-serve capabilities.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
Lead on large-scale analytics projects and the delivery of data insights at scale by utilizing BBC’s customer database, third party datasets and content metadata
Collaborate in cross-discipline project groups to improve the BBC’s data capabilities and develop new solutions
Communicate insights in a compelling way to convey a clear story to senior stakeholders. You will also provide technical expertise and act as a first point of contact for analytics queries from non-data oriented colleagues
Build new data automation processes for first and third-party datasets using scripting languages and big data tools
Maintain and proactively identify opportunities to improve our data products and pipelines
Build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders
Develop your own analytics skills and keeping up to date with the latest industry developments
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
Proven experience in a senior data analyst role, ideally in the media or digital sector
Demonstrated ability to analyse performance data to extract actionable insights
Ability to create dashboards using tools like Tableau, R Shiny or similar
Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in another scripting language e.g. Python, R
DESIRABLE CRITERIA:
Experience of working with digital analytics tools and understanding of tracking implementation (e.g., Piano Analytics, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics etc.)
Interest in and good knowledge of the BBC services
Familiarity with the media landscape, measurement methodologies and research methods including online and offline channels
Experience of mentoring junior staff members
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
Information at a Glance This is your BBC At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC Here you will benefit from:
• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
Candidate pack You belong We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss:

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