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Senior Principal Data Analyst

Job in Birmingham, West Midlands, B1, England, UK
Listing for: BBC
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-14
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Data Analyst, Data Science Manager
  • HR/Recruitment
Job Description & How to Apply Below

JOB DETAILS

Salary range :

Contract type : FTC (12-14 months)

Location :
Birmingham 2 days per week

Were 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 teams 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. Were 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 peoples 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.

Youll support the Head of Data in establishing a roadmap of prioritised SLAs and KPIs which could be enhanced through product development and automation. Youll 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 youre 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 / Power

    BI.
  • Experience of data…
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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