Job Description

Role:

Business Analyst

Location:

London Bridge

Contract:

Permanent

About Us:

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts that are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. News Broadcasting is the UK's most digital broadcaster with 86% combined digital listening share, complementing its market-leading scale on visual platforms. The group contains the national brands of talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio, Talk and Wireless Ireland-produced radio stations, including FM104, Cork's 96fm and Dublin's Q102.

Your Role:

We're looking for a Business Analyst to join our News Broadcasting Digital Team. You'll work across two agile teams: News Broadcasting Audio Team and the Platform Team. The Audio Team looks after our universal web player housing Virgin Radio, Times Radio, talkSPORT and Talk radio stations. We are currently extending the web player to support all of our Irish stations, which come under Onic as a single brand. Additionally, the Audio Team includes a group of backend engineers who manage customer data, user preferences and permissions.




The Platform Team is responsible for providing the data that feeds both the App and the Web platform, as well as developing our smart speaker products (Sonos and Alexa). It is essential to demonstrate experience working with backend systems such as REST APIs and GraphQL.

Day-to-Day You Will:

Work within an Agile product team, comprising engineering (including QA), product management, project management, and UX&D. Engage in business analysis activities to develop and improve our widely recognised media products. Partner with the Product Manager to ensure backlogs are high-quality, visible, and demonstrate clear business value. Analyse, document, and improve existing backend workflows, APIs, data structures, and integrations. Perform in-depth analysis on prioritised initiatives, breaking them into clearly defined epics and user stories prioritised by business value. Collaborate with developers to ensure system solutions align with long-term business and technical goals. Translate business requirements into backend system designs and technical specifications. Coach development teams on structuring and formatting good requirements and stories, ensuring self-sufficiency. Provide feedback to teams and business stakeholders on delivered stories, highlighting the value created. Research industry best practices and strategic directions, sharing insights with the team. Contribute to and maintain the quality of BA standards and practices.

What We're Looking For:

Requirements Elicitation and Analysis

Ability to gather requirements through workshops, interviews, shadowing, etc., outlining business value, cost to deliver, and time constraints. Effective communicator capable of sharing risks, assumptions, and constraints with both dev teams and business stakeholders. Experience facilitating conversations to outline potential solutions and prioritising options based on business value. Presentation skills tailored to the needs of different dev teams and stakeholder types. Experience spanning the entire technology delivery lifecycle from inception to release and maintenance.

Building Trust and Collaboration

Establish or re-establish ways of working for product teams and third parties with clear accountabilities. Collaborate across stakeholders to achieve common understanding of challenges, opportunities, and next steps. Foster a trusted and empowered team environment comfortable handling challenging conversations about scope, benefits, and ways of working. Promote positivity, motivation, and support within the team.

Delivery Focus within Agile Ways of Working

Experience delivering in agile/iterative environments using methodologies such as SCRUM, Kanban, and Lean. Understanding of iterative product development, including MVP, prototyping, and lean start-up techniques. Promote Agile values and ways of working to mature the team's confidence in self-management.

Facilitation & Communication

Advocate for continuous improvement. Tailor communication, analysis, and team activities to suit the situation and audience. Manage work amidst changing business requirements and priorities, maintaining focus on strategy and cost of delay.


If you believe you have the skills and passion to succeed, even if you don't meet every requirement on the list, we encourage you to apply. We value potential just as much as experience and are eager to hear from individuals who are enthusiastic about learning and growing with us.

At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more office-based days depending on the nature of the position, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about what's required for your role.

We are News UK

: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.




We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.




At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:


Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5% 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year


We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.