Head of Data & Insight - Driving Growth & AI Strategy

News Broadcasting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Gym discounts and wellbeing benefits

Bikes for Work

Pension scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

LinkedIn Learning access

Volunteer days

Job summary

News Broadcasting seeks a strategic Head of Data and Insight to shape analytics across our award-winning brands, including talkSPORT and Virgin Radio. You will lead a team of data professionals, drive audience growth, and influence product, content and advertising decisions through advanced analytics and insights.

You will champion best practices, manage tools like RAJAR/JNLR, and collaborate with tech and marketing to deliver customer-centric outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with media analytics and audience measurement tools in a Broadcasting context.
• Expert understanding of qualitative and quantitative customer research techniques.
• Ability to write effective insight briefs and commission research.
• Proven ability to translate data into actionable insights for diverse audiences.
• Strong consulting and stakeholder-influencing skills, with business acumen.
• Experience leading high-performing teams and developing talent.
• Excellent data storytelling to inform content, brand, and product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Implement a strategic vision for data and insights to meet business goals.
• Retain and develop a high-performing data and insight team across brands.
• Manage external audience measurement tools (RAJAR, JNLR) to optimise growth and trading requirements.
• Collaborate with tech teams to deliver internal analytics across streaming, web, video, and data platforms.
• Drive customer strategy with marketing to grow logged-in users and personalise experiences.
• Oversee the budget for qualitative and quantitative consumer insight projects.
• Identify best-practice tools and methodologies to improve output and efficiency.
• Promote AI adoption to enhance data mining and enable self-serve insights.

Skills

Media analytics

Audience measurement

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Insight briefs

Data storytelling

Stakeholder influencing

Tools

Tableau

Omni

Job description

News Broadcasting seeks a strategic Head of Data and Insight to shape analytics across our award-winning brands, including talkSPORT and Virgin Radio. You will lead a team of data professionals, drive audience growth, and influence product, content and advertising decisions through advanced analytics and insights.

You will champion best practices, manage tools like RAJAR/JNLR, and collaborate with tech and marketing to deliver customer-centric outcomes.