Data & Reporting Lead

ITV; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ITV is seeking a Data and Reporting Lead for a 12-month fixed term contract in London. This role will focus on enhancing data analytics and reporting capabilities, collaborating closely with various business teams to optimize data-driven decision-making and improve content monetization strategies.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in Data Analytics and Data Modelling.
• Strong SQL and Python skills required.
• Experience with data visualisation and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of business markets and content monetisation strategies.
• Translate business needs into technical report designs.
• Own development and enhancement of dashboards and reporting.

Skills

Data Analytics

Data Modelling

SQL

Python

Data Visualisation

Tools

Tableau

Looker Studio

Job description

The Role

12 month fixed term contract

The team

ITV Studios is one of the biggest global creators, producers and distributors of TV content in the world.

Growing our UK and global production base is central to our More than TV strategy. We are the largest producer in the UK, one of the largest producers in Europe and one of the largest independent unscripted producers in the US. ITV Studios' UK division includes 27 production labels, creating and producing a diverse range of scripted and unscripted content for a wide range of broadcasters and streaming platforms.

Within ITV Studios is our Global Partnerships function, which further adds to our creative and financial success by developing international hit formats and distributing our 90,000+ active catalogue hours of film and television content to buyers such as broadcasters, streaming platforms, airlines and many more. As we continue to grow, providing these development, sales and distribution teams with the right tools to succeed in a competitive environment is critical to powering that future value.

Working hand in hand with our business teams, ITV Technology is the key that unlocks our creativity, allowing us to make, distribute and monetise the best programmes in the UK and across the world. From the transformation of ITV's internal systems to how the broadcaster makes programmes and delivers content to viewers, digital transformation and innovation is at the heart of our future at ITV.

The role

ITV Technology and Global Partnerships are working together on a major programme of change, building out new systems and capabilities for Rights, Content Sales & Licensing, Royalties, Customer Relationship Management, and Contract Lifecycle Management. The Data and Reporting Lead will be a key part of this programme, helping unlock the true value of the data that ITV Studios holds, providing reports and insights, enhancing our understanding of our markets and customers, as well as the content that we create, produce, distribute and monetise.

Joining a programme already in flight, the initial focus will be to take ownership of the data and reporting workstreams, validating requirements, roadmaps and approach and driving these through to conclusion. This encompasses not only the end user facing dashboards and reports but also the underlying sources of data and metadata that need to be brought together.

The successful candidate will work alongside engineering, analysis and product teams to build and iterate on these platforms, bringing together data from Salesforce, rights management, sales and licensing, finance, performance reporting and other sources to provide business value through better visibility and analytics on the value of our content.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop an understanding of Global Partnerships business - markets, customers, content monetisation strategies, value chains and supply chains.
• Validate and enhance delivery roadmaps and priorities for data analytics and insights development including what can be done as BAU and what needs to be delivered as a larger funded project.
• Analyse new requirements as presented by business leads and senior stakeholders, assess benefit, risk, effort profiles and drive through to delivery.
• Translate business requirements into technical report designs.
• Own development and enhancement of dashboard / reporting to deliver business value.
• Direct the work of Data Engineers and Data Analysts to ensure completion of a backlog of existing business requirements.
• Maintain data and reporting catalogues including Key Data Sources / Repositories.
• Develop a network with key business and technology stakeholders (including building a network with ITV peers in other teams).
• Promote the understanding and use of analytics and insights in a time poor / data rich environment - making sense of complexity.
• Manage Data & Reporting Analyst in support of delivering overarching responsibilities.
• Establish process / forums and governance over the capture and prioritisation of business needs for delivery.
• This role is technical, requiring hands-on delivery, but is also business facing in taking the lead role to engage with business customers to capture their needs, translate those needs into deliverable outcomes and to deliver those outcomes in the form of reports / dashboards and insights.

Key Criteria:

• Demonstrable experience of Data Analytics and Data Modelling, with experience of structuring and profiling data
• Strong SQL, Python or other data processing and preparation tools for bringing together and structuring disparate data sources and making data available for use
• Domain expertise in data visualisation and reporting tools such as Tableau, Looker Studio, etc to provide an enhanced user experience in regards to data presentation.
• Knowledge of how to incorporate SaaS based application reporting capabilities to deliver integrated reporting catalogues and services
• Experience in driving business adoption of reporting outputs
• Data & report cataloguing and data lineage mapping
• An understanding of data architecture processes and principles.
• Experience modelling data for analytical use cases and reporting