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Senior Principal Data Analyst

Job Requisition ID: 33333
Job Closing Date: 25/11/2025
Birmingham, GBR, B1 1AY
JOB DETAILS
Salary range: 71,000-78,000
Contract type: FTC (12-14 months)
Location: Birmingham, 2 days per week
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.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
People Analytics & Insights within HR are playing a pivotal role in enabling the modernisation of data capabilities and decision intelligence at the BBC. Developing and implementing enhanced systems, processes, and data which underpin our global workforce is a key BBC priority; Identifying opportunities to automate and accelerate data solutions across People Services, extending HR metric frameworks, and measuring improvements to the employee experience.
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 Senior Principal HR Data Analyst is pivotal in supporting the Head of Data to identify and implement transformative analytics opportunities, supporting our HR colleagues to self-serve, analysing culture data, and enhancing people analytics. Through effective partnerships, team leadership, and enterprise thinking, this role will work closely with senior stakeholders in HR and beyond to establish people analytics product ownership and enable the team to deliver enhanced capabilities.
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

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
As a Senor Principal HR Analyst within the People Analytics & Insights team, you will play a leading role in managing and evolving the team and its implementation of operational and analytical capabilities across all workforce cohorts, throughout the employee lifecycle. Working with the People Services leadership team and the Head of People Data, this role will identify product use cases, inform solution designs, test and deploy enhanced capabilities and support for adoption and usage.
You will be engaged in all aspects of proposal, design, specification, testing, development, and product success. As a data and analytics expert, you will be supporting the team to review and measure new features against existing products and solutions to ensure consistency and interoperability of data and systems.
You'll support the Head of Data in establishing a roadmap of prioritised SLAs and KPIs which could be enhanced through product development and automation. You'll partner with colleagues in product, technology, data and AI governance to ensure opportunities are explored and outcomes are measured effectively and with appropriate security and compliance guardrails. To support successful adoption, this role will work collaboratively with HR leadership and delivery teams, to ensure AI operational and functional readiness are incrementally improved.
If you're passionate about leading data and analytics teams, enjoy experimentation, solution development and problem-solving, and want to work in a high-performing team doing complex and critical work, then we should talk!
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
We focus on hiring for potential at the BBC, so the main requirement for the position is a strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
Some of the things we love:
Essential

• Strong experience of data analysis, modelling and report design, with data and analytics tooling experience & capabilities such as Tableau/PowerBI.
• Experience of data management principles, documentation, and delivery, including data mapping, metrics governance and cataloguing.
• Proven experience of leading analytics teams and product development.
• Experience of developing and maturing KPI and metric frameworks
• Experience in developing product prioritised requirements, backlog, and roadmap

Desirable

• Knowledge of architectural domains, across data, solution and technical disciplines
• Ideally experienced in working in complex and fragmented technology landscapes, with expertise in mixed data and system landscapes
• Experience working with Agile methodologies, ensuring delivery of key user stories and product outcomes

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.
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.
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.
For any general queries, please contact:
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.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:
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