Business Intelligence Manager, EMEA

BBC Studios; Greater London; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC Studios in London is seeking a commercially minded and data-literate Business Intelligence Manager to support EMEA sales through forecasting, pricing analysis and robust reporting.

You will own forecasting, manage the rate card across BBC products (including .com, Global News Channel, Podcasts and YouTube), and drive automation to improve outputs. This role collaborates with Sales, Data Solutions, Product and Senior Leadership to enable informed commercial decisions.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in a STEM subject, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive work experience in a data analytics role with an exceptional track record.
• Experience in management reporting, automation and business forecasting.
• Demonstrable experience working on Excel.
• Experience with visualisation tools e.g. Tableau, PowerPoint.
• Proven experience defining and delivering project roadmaps; simplifying complex problems and translating business priorities into solutions.
• Proven ability to deliver across multiple concurrent initiatives amongst organisational complexity.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior leaders and building trusted cross-functional relationships.

Responsibilities

• Forecasting: Own the regular forecasting process for EMEA, with a clear narrative.
• Pricing: Own the rate card across BBC products and optimise pricing to maximise yield.
• Financial reporting: Deliver regular financial reporting and drive automation to improve outputs.
• Market analysis: Create market intelligence reports for Sales teams to inform strategic pitches.
• Dashboard creation/maintenance: Set up data pipelines and self-serve Tableau dashboards.
• Stakeholder management: Equip senior sales leads with timely information for decision making.
• Team collaboration: Work with teams in Singapore and New York to deliver global benefits.

Skills

Data analytics

Forecasting

Excel

Tableau

Stakeholder management

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Tableau

PowerPoint

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time Perm

DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios

LOCATION: London

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £47,000 - £55,000 + London Weighting (£3,265 ) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

About Bbc Studios

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM?

The Strategy & Business Intelligence team supports BBC Studios Ad Sales by driving commercial growth, business performance and future capability through strategic insight, trusted data, connected commercial platforms and high-quality business intelligence.

This role is part of the Revenue Performance team within Strategy & Business Intelligence. The function is responsible for ensuring the EMEA sales teams are equipped with information and insights to enable them to maximise their sales efforts. The role also leads on global projects, including ensuring our rate card is priced so that the yield of our advertising inventory is optimised.

Working across Sales, Data Solutions, Product, Technology and Senior Leadership, the function spans many far-reaching areas of the business and uses this unique view to offer an important perspective on commercial decisions. It ensures pricing decisions and financial forecasts are rooted in robust data and the latest business context.

We are looking for a commercially minded and data literate Business Intelligence Manager who is enthusiastic about being involved in forecasting, sales strategy and harnessing data across multiple systems.

This is a role where curiosity and collaboration are key. Working across multiple diverse stakeholders in a broad and complicated business means great exposure and requires strong adaptability and communication skills.

Whilst regular reporting is a part of the role, we are looking for someone who can seek opportunities in automation to free up time to analyse other areas of the business and push for change. There is large scope for up-skilling in technical skills. This role has exposure to senior levels of leadership.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Forecasting: Own the regular forecasting process for EMEA, working with senior sales leads to gain insight into regional activity and distil the information into a robust financial forecast with a clear narrative.
• Pricing: Own the rate card of prices across the suite of BBC products where ads can be served, including on .com, the Global News Channel, Podcasts and YouTube. Work to keep these prices relevant and optimised to maximise the yield from Sales teams’ efforts. Be responsible for pricing any new commercial products through thorough analysis.
• Financial reporting: Work with key stakeholders in finance and across products to deliver regular financial reporting. Once reports are understood, lean into automation to minimise the workload and improve the output of these reports.
• Market analysis: Respond to ad hoc requests from EMEA sales teams to create ‘market intelligence reports’ which zoom in on a certain sector or advertiser. These should supply sales teams with the information they need to make informed strategic decisions or get them ready for a pitch.
• Dashboard creation/maintenance: Understand requirements from stakeholders and if necessary, collaborate with our data team to set up a data pipeline and create a self-serve dashboard on Tableau.
• Stakeholder management: Ensure that senior sales leads in EMEA have the information they need to do their best work. Make sure that the systems and tools we have in place are working for them, and if not, driving change through curiosity, networking and persistence.
• Team collaboration: Work with parallel roles in Singapore and New York to learn, share, and find ways to join up regional projects to deliver global benefits. Work closely with team members in Strategy and Data roles to drive projects forwards.

Your Skills And Experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA :

• Educated to degree level in a STEM subject, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive work experience in a data analytics role with an exceptional track record.
• Experience in management reporting, automation and business forecasting.
• Demonstrable experience working on Excel.
• Experience with visualisation tools e.g. Tableau, PowerPoint.
• Proven experience defining and delivering project roadmaps; simplifying complex problems and translating business priorities into solutions.
• Proven ability to deliver across multiple concurrent initiatives amongst organisational complexity.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior leaders and building trusted cross-functional relationships.

Desired Not Required

• Experience with SQL or other analytical programming languages.
• Experience working within media, advertising, publishing or commercial sales organisations, with an understanding of industry trends and competitors.
• Experience in pricing strategy and sales optimisation.

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Redeployment

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.