Channel 4
Job Details: Reporting & Data Enablement Lead
Job Description
Job Title: Reporting & Data Enablement Lead
Reports to: Head of Audience Insight
Department: Strategy, Policy & Insights
Location: Leeds/Hybrid
Salary: Basic salary starting from £106,000 negotiable dependant on experience
Department Description
The Strategy, Policy & Insight (Function) are trusted thought-leaders bringing expert strategy, policy, market & audience insight - challenging and advising the business to drive delivery of Channel 4's strategy and remit.
The purpose of the new centralised Audience Insights (Subfunction) is to be independent thought leaders at the heart of Channel 4's creative and commercial decision-making, bringing a single source of truth and big picture perspective, challenging and advising the business to ensure profitable business growth through the use of data.
Job Purpose
Data Expert leading a team of multidisciplined specialists to provide best in class insight & reporting for C4 C-Suite leaders. Owns the portfolio of Tools & Methods used in the wider Insight function & the user education programme to ensure effective deployment of these tools to analysts in the Insight function as well as multiple leaders and functional specialists across C4 where self-serve tools are available.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. This role leads a team (which brings together all Reporting Subject Matter Experts from across C4 into one single Centre of Excellence. The role is responsible for combining multiple, highly complex viewer, product, social, sales and distribution data sets and running analysis for reports, enabling C4 Exec and Senior Leaders to decide where to invest / what trends to plan for / what products to take to market.
2. Prioritise Reporting and Data Analytics requirements from C-Suite and Senior Leaders via the Insight Business Partners within available in-house resources, balancing team capacity, timelines and available budget to maximise the ROI of reporting and analysis for C4.
3. Where the role makes a decision to reject a request from the business for data modelling, this will involve explaining the decision and reasoning to the C-Suite/Senior Leader.
4. Deliver via a team of specialist Reporting Developers, the agreed suite of regular & repeated insight & reporting required by C4 leaders to track and monitor C4 performance (for example Tableau Dashboards, Daily/Weekly/Qtrly updates for all audience data content).
5. Deliver via a team of multi-disciplined specialists (Digital Marketing (MarTech), Search Engine Optimisation, Social data) best in class and high value performance analysis & recommendations on which C4 Senior Leaders can base their business decisions.
6. Lead & drive the rollout of self-serve access to regular reports across C4 to meet agreed targets and driving maximum cost and resource efficiency for C4, educating Exec and Senior Leaders on how to leverage insight from streamlined and connected reports and data sets.
7. Critically assess the multiple C4 data sets (called foundations) managed by Technology, collate input from the Lead Insights BP & other Insight Specialist Leads; prioritise, recommend & champion the improvements on behalf of the function.
8. Define & manage the suite of analysis Tools & Methods (eg Reporting Dashboards, Modelling, 3rd Party Data (Adobe), multiple tools for social/web applications, Data Robot etc) used across all Insight activities.
9. Define & create education & coaching programmes on all tools across the Insight function to ensure maximum impact, delivering direct or through a team of coaches.
10. In collaboration with Technology, lead on the programme of innovation and development in cross-platform audience measurement.
11. Develop the team, coaching for excellence and growing the team skills & capabilities in critical new areas such as social and web.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS / STAKEHOLDERS
1. Lead Insight Business Partner and 4 Business Partners & their Analyst teams.
2. All C-Suite & Senior Leaders in C4.
3. 7 direct reports and a total team of 14.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
1. Experience of data or reporting leadership including multiple & mixed data sets.
2. Strong business understanding including role of analytics in driving leader decisions.
3. Excellent understanding of access & analytics tools including Reporting Dashboards, Modelling, 3rd Party data (Adobe), tools across social platforms, Data Robot.
4. Strong influencing skills of C4 peers, C-Suite & Senior Leaders.
5. Strong communication & presentation skills with the ability to present complex and detailed recommendations clearly.
6. Good interpersonal and collaboration skills.
7. Excellent ability to deal with data complexity.
8. Strong leadership / people management skills (min 2 years).
9. Ability to handle multiple projects and priorities.
Desirable:
1. Sector experience in a media or broadcast company including exposure to product & viewer data (ideally social/web based).
COMPETENCES
1. Enabling Strategy & Change
2. Advancing Analytics Capability
3. Managing Data & Information
4. Harnessing Insights & Learning
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