Lead Product Analyst

Package Description

Job Reference: 23751
Band: E
Salary: Up to 80000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 12m FTC role
Location: Office Base is London / Salford / Newcastle / Glasgow (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

Were happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Job Introduction

The BBC has been serving audiences online for a quarter of a century. Across key products including iPlayer Sounds Bitesize BBC News and BBC Sport we entertain educate and inform audiences in their millions every day.

Behind the scenes we are making the shift from broadcasting at our audiences to a service shaped by them and designed around their wants and needs. We are creating personalised products and services that bring the right content to the right people at the right times a personalised BBC. It will be our greatest leap since iPlayer and thats why it is right at the top of our agenda.

Delivering it is going to require a fundamental reshaping of the BBCs culture and how we work. Product Analytics are at the forefront of understanding how our audiences interact with our brand working to create richer more personalised experiences that our audiences love.

As a Lead Product Analyst you will lead a diverse team of product analysts to produce insights that will drive digital product strategy across the BBC working closely with colleagues and stakeholders across Product Engineering Data Science and more.

Interview Process

Two stage interview process.
- Virtual interview for short-listed candidates approx. one hour of competency and values-based questions
- Presentation task

Main Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Product Analytics you will:
Be jointly responsible for defining and implementing Product Analytics strategy in collaboration with teams and leadership across Data Engineering Architecture and Product
Grow and lead a diverse team of analysts to produce high quality actionable insights fostering an inclusive environment to ensure all individuals can be their authentic self and contribute to their full potential
Provide expert leadership in analytical approaches
Champion the power of data in decision making leading the charge within the Product Group to leverage it to make decisions through experimentation and insight
Lead on deep-dive analysis that will frame product strategy and product roadmap decisions by looking for opportunities to optimise audience experience and drive engagement
Proactively shape and enable engagement and collaboration opportunities across the BBC evangelising the use of data to guide strategy
Lead in improving and shaping our data analysis capabilities through understanding and guiding Product Groups data needs leading on projects which directly support company goals and improving our self-service functionality to facilitate data-led decision making everywhere

Are you the right candidate

Essential
Experience leading and managing a team of data analysts developing individuals and teams to achieve their full potential and driving value through data and insight
Experience working in a fast-paced environment in order to deliver insights that can influence the direction of the business
Great communication skills and the ability to translate technical information for non-technical audiences at all levels of the organisation
Ability to think strategically and a passion for producing high-quality accurate analytics deliverables
Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across multiple disciplines managing expectations of senior colleagues and navigating conflicting priorities and pressures
High levels of logical thinking and problem solving skills
A keen advocate for the role of data in driving business performance

Desirable
Experience working in a digital product focused analytical role in a customer-centric organisation
Familiarity with agile or other rapid application development methods
Understanding of data pipelines and/or data modelling
Experience with Data Science & Machine learning
Understanding of how digital products use experimentation and experience with A/B testing
Knowledge of R or Python

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

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