Data Analyst – People Analytics Full Time

Req: 17952

Salary range: £50,000-£60,000

Band D

Contract type: fixed term contract

Location: Birmingham Mailbox

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Includes

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on Reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk with the job reference in the subject.

Job introduction

The BBC aims to stimulate and delight audiences across the UK with distinctive, creative content. To support this aim, the BBC is entering a new charter period of significant and exciting change, developing new capabilities in order to define a BBC fit for the next generation.

The BBC MISSION: To inform, educate and entertain all audiences, to deliver our public purposes

The BBC AIM: To reinvent the BBC for a new generation

We’ll do this through… OUR AMBITIONS: Making sure everyone gets value from the BBC, world-class creativity, global reach, financial stability and making the BBC an even greater place to work.

The People Analytics & Insights Team Support The Ambitions Of The BBC In Understanding And Developing Our Extensive, Diverse And Talented Workforce. Through Developing Corporate Reporting, Creating Rich Data Stories And Delivering Actionable Insights, The Team Are At The Core Of Enabling Our People, Managers And Leaders To Thrive And To Be Supported Through The Moments That Matter. Our Team’s Strategic Objectives Include Partnering Internally To Achieve

○ Automation & Modernisation – HR Data Product development, intelligent analytics and data platform adoption

○ Trusted Content – Build trust with defined, owned and consistent HR metrics and quality output

○ Partner for Storytelling Mastery – Enrich our actionable insight with diversity of input, by collaborating with strategic sub-domain partners

○ Empowered Experience – build data confidence, literacy and digital enablement to increase the value of, and capability for, democratised access to insights

○ Integrated HR – Build and enhance business and information architecture, to enable improved provision and intersectionality of HR services and capabilities

As a Workforce Insights Data Analyst, you’ll be working closely with the HR teams in understanding the composition of our teams now and for the future. In combining numerous dimensions to understand skills and capabilities across multiple business domains, your work will help to support the BBC’s Value for All strategy.

Interview process

Interview process

• Initial informal chat with hiring manager (30 minutes)
• Technical task for shortlisted candidates – approx. one hour preparation time
• Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions

Main responsibilities

As a Workforce Insights Data Analyst at the BBC, you will be responsible for designing workforce data models, building and maintaining the workforce planning and strategy analytical models. You will also be the key contact when it comes to the organisational strategy data analysis, in partnership with the wider team. Combining large datasets with multiple dimensions, you’ll be confident in developing robust and sustainable data processes across source and target applications. Experience of Tableau (including data prep), PowerBi, SAP and cloud data platforms would be preferred.

You will strive to deliver quality with robust validation and exceptionally high ethical and technical standards.

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary agile team working alongside analysts and data visualisation teams to deliver services and applications for the next generation of BBC people data products.

Workforce analysis is critical in driving positive transformation and development of skills and talent for the BBC, and this role has an opportunity to implement incredibly impactful data models and forecasting.

As a Team Member You Will Be Expected To

• Communicate and understand strategy decisions, updates and insights to all team members
• Evaluate and adapt processes and technologies to new requirements and situations including relevant team members in the process
• Manage complex projects with integrity when faced with challenges
• Support the team in working together effectively

Are you the right candidate

We focus on hiring for potential at the BBC, so the main requirement for the position is a hardworking, resilient mindset with a can do attitude.

Some Of The Things We Love

• Prioritizes stakeholders requirements and identifies the best solution for timely delivery
• Includes other team members in building innovative solutions to acquiring or enriching data used to build models, and assure quality of output
• Leads on one or more projects encouraging and mentoring team members on designing and developing sustainable, repeatable data products
• Helps adopt and embed standards for data management and delivery within People Analytics & Insights
• Ensures that data privacy and security is integral to any work undertaken
• Leads the design of the workforce planning models in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Proactively evaluates and provides feedback on solution proposals, based on deep understanding of the domain
• Encouraging and mentoring team members in partnership with other disciplines to create value with data across the wider organisation

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.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .