Principal Data Analyst

BBC Group and Public Services; Birmingham, Manchester, London, Cardiff, Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Principal Data Analyst to enhance workforce analytics. This hybrid role involves collaboration across teams to develop data capabilities, ensuring effective reporting and stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and experience with data tools.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Discounted healthcare and gym

Qualifications

• Strong analytical mindset required.
• Experience in data management principles and testing in product development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with HR and business units for operational and analytical reporting.
• Design data models and produce deep dive analysis.

Skills

Data Analysis

Modelling

Report Design

Agile Methodologies

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Python

SQL

Job description

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Data & Analytics

Fixed Term - Full Time

Birmingham, GB, B1 1AY Salford, GB, M50 2QH Glasgow, GB, G511DA London, GB, W1A 1AA Cardiff, GB, CF10 1FT

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 25/05/2025

THE ROLE

Job Reference: 19723
Band: D
Salary: £65,000-£70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract - 18 months
Location: Office Base is Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Glasgow or London (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .

People Analytics & Insights within HR are playing a pivotal role in enabling the modernisation of data capabilities and intelligence at the BBC. Developing and implementing the systems, processes and data which underpin our extended workforce is a key, BBC-wide program of work.

This team’s strategy is to enable our people, managers, and leaders across the BBC to understand and enhance the richness of our talented, diverse and representative workforce, through the delivery of trusted, valuable and insightful data products.

The role of Principal Data Analyst is pivotal in transforming the coverage and interoperability of our workforce analytics, built through effective partnerships and enterprise thinking, in order to deliver an extended suite of data and insight products alongside our existing capabilities. Excellent stakeholder management skills will enable delivery of a high-value portfolio of work, in a collaborative way.

We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.

Interview Process

• Informal interview CV & skills review for shortlisted candidates – approx. 30 minutes
• Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical (task based) and values-based questions

Main Responsibilities

Supported by the Senior Principal Data Analyst, you’ll collaborate with HR Business Partners and BBC business units to discover, define, design, and implement both operational and analytical reporting across the entire contingent workforce lifecycle. You will play a key role in developing a strategic operational data capability, fully integrated with the existing HR People Analytics function.

In this role, you’ll be involved in all stages of the data product lifecycle. This includes identifying and analysing data sources, designing conceptual and physical data models, defining business-relevant measures and attributes, and producing deep dive analysis and operational reporting.

You’ll take ownership of implementation and adoption, working closely with teams across technology, product, and systems to ensure that processes, systems, and data products are effectively planned, developed, and delivered.

You’ll also be responsible for communicating insights and analysis generated from the data products you’ve built with key stakeholders from within the business, playing a vital role in supporting strategic changes to operational practices.

If you’re passionate about data and analytics, love solving complex problems, and want to be part of a high-performing team delivering critical work—let’s talk!

Are you the right candidate

We focus on hiring for potential at the BBC, so the main requirement for the position is a strong analytical mindset.

Some of the things we love:

• Strong experience of data analysis, modelling and report design, with data and analytics tooling experience & capabilities such as Tableau, PowerBI, Python, SQL
• Experience of data management principles, documentation, and delivery, including data mapping, metrics governance and cataloguing
• Proven experience of testing in in a product development environment (e.g. back-end, integration, regression testing and UAT support)
• Knowledge of architecture domains, across data, solution and technical disciplines
• Used to working in an environment using multiple sources and target data repositories
• Experience working with Agile methodologies, ensuring delivery of key user stories and product outcomes
  

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.

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.

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.