Head of Data Solutions

BBC Studios; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London weighting allowance

15% bonus OTE

Job summary

BBC Studios is seeking a commercially minded and technically credible Head of Data Solutions to lead the development and delivery of data and analytics capabilities for BBC Studios Ad Sales globally. In this senior leadership role, you will define the BI data roadmap, lead a team of analysts, and drive best practices across data modelling, governance, and quality.

You will play a key role in the transition to a centralised Snowflake data platform, ensuring reliable, accessible data that supports

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading Business Intelligence, analytics, or data teams within a commercial environment, ideally across digital media, advertising, or publishing.
• Strong expertise in analytics, testing, measurement, and industry best practices.
• Strong understanding of modern data platforms, data architecture, warehousing, modelling, ETL/ELT, and engineering standards.
• Experience delivering trusted, scalable data products with strong governance, data quality, security, and compliance controls.
• Proven track record of shaping data strategy and roadmaps, translating business needs into impactful BI and analytics solutions.
• Advanced SQL skills with working knowledge of Python or other analytical programming languages.
• Experience managing third-party vendors and technology partners to achieve business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in establishing BI and data functions from scratch, including team design, data infrastructure, governance, and operating models, or driving complex transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the BI Data Solutions strategy and roadmap for BBC Studios Ad Sales, prioritising data products, analytical capabilities and platform improvements according to commercial value, user needs and strategic objectives.
• Lead the design and delivery of scalable BI data solutions across the commercial lifecycle, including trusted data models, reusable datasets, reporting foundations and self-service analytical capabilities.
• Bring the team onto a centralized snowflake data lake, starting from scratch and ensuring best practices for data stewardship are implemented (data modelling, quality and governance, for example).
• Improve the consistency, accessibility and trustworthiness of commercial performance information, reducing duplicated logic and manual reporting while enabling better forecasting and decision-making.
• Provide technical and people leadership for the BI Data Solutions team, setting clear standards for solution design, delivery, documentation, testing, data quality and ongoing support.
• Partner with Sales, Revenue Performance, Product and Technology leaders to translate commercial questions and operational needs into robust data and analytics solutions.
• Act as the senior link between Ad Sales and central data platform teams, ensuring that the Snowflake data lake, ingestion patterns and governance controls support the division’s current and future BI needs. Collaborating with engineers, analysts and technical teams across the BBC.
• Drive adoption, performance and continuous improvement of BI data products, champion self-service BI capabilities, and influence investment decisions across tooling, platforms and delivery partners.
• Build and develop a high-performing team with the analytical, data modelling and engineering skills needed to support evolving business needs

Skills

BI leadership

Analytics leadership

Data platforms

Data modelling

SQL

Python

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Tools

Snowflake

Tableau

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: E

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent

LOCATION: London, TVC, 2 days in the office

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £75,000 - £80,000 on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. Plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,441 and 15% bonus OTE. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

WE ARE 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.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We are looking for a commercially minded and technically credible Head of Data Solutions to lead the development and delivery of data and analytics capabilities for BBC Studios Ad Sales globally.

In this senior leadership role, you will define the BI data roadmap, lead a team of analysts, and drive best practices across data modelling, governance, and quality. You will play a key role in the transition to a centralised Snowflake data platform, ensuring reliable, accessible data that supports reporting, forecasting, and business performance insights.

This is a hands-on leadership position with responsibility for technical direction, team development, delivery excellence, and senior stakeholder engagement, while remaining actively involved in delivering high-impact data solutions.

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 is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility for setting technical direction, building team capability, ensuring delivery excellence, and managing senior stakeholder relationships. The successful candidate will not only lead and develop the team but will also be expected to make a significant personal contribution to the design, development, and delivery of data, analytics, and BI solutions. Working closely with business and technology stakeholders, they will help shape strategy while remaining actively involved in execution.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Own and evolve the BI Data Solutions strategy and roadmap for BBC Studios Ad Sales, prioritising data products, analytical capabilities and platform improvements according to commercial value, user needs and strategic objectives.
• Lead the design and delivery of scalable BI data solutions across the commercial lifecycle, including trusted data models, reusable datasets, reporting foundations and self-service analytical capabilities.
• Bring the team onto a centralized snowflake data lake, starting from scratch and ensuring best practices for data stewardship are implemented (data modelling, quality and governance, for example).
• Improve the consistency, accessibility and trustworthiness of commercial performance information, reducing duplicated logic and manual reporting while enabling better forecasting and decision-making.
• Provide technical and people leadership for the BI Data Solutions team, setting clear standards for solution design, delivery, documentation, testing, data quality and ongoing support.
• Partner with Sales, Revenue Performance, Product and Technology leaders to translate commercial questions and operational needs into robust data and analytics solutions.
• Act as the senior link between Ad Sales and central data platform teams, ensuring that the Snowflake data lake, ingestion patterns and governance controls support the division’s current and future BI needs. Collaborating with engineers, analysts and technical teams across the BBC.
• Drive adoption, performance and continuous improvement of BI data products, champion self-service BI capabilities, and influence investment decisions across tooling, platforms and delivery partners.
• Build and develop a high-performing team with the analytical, data modelling and engineering skills needed to support evolving business needs

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Significant experience leading Business Intelligence, analytics, or data teams within a commercial environment, ideally across digital media, advertising, or publishing.
• Strong expertise in analytics, testing, measurement, and industry best practices.
• Strong understanding of modern data platforms, data architecture, warehousing, modelling, ETL/ELT, and engineering standards.
• Experience delivering trusted, scalable data products with strong governance, data quality, security, and compliance controls.
• Proven track record of shaping data strategy and roadmaps, translating business needs into impactful BI and analytics solutions.
• Advanced SQL skills with working knowledge of Python or other analytical programming languages.
• Experience managing third-party vendors and technology partners to achieve business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in establishing BI and data functions from scratch, including team design, data infrastructure, governance, and operating models, or driving complex transformation initiatives.

Desired But Not Required

• Experience using AI-assisted analytics and data tooling to accelerate the delivery of data products and insights, including prompt engineering, validating AI-generated outputs and applying appropriate governance and quality assurance.
• Experience working with Data Governance teams and implementing enterprise governance practices.
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Tableau.
• Experience working with Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms in a production Business Intelligence environment.

NEXT STEPS

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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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 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.

We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered.

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.