Business Analyst

About the team:

The Data and Decision Sciences (DDS) team is at the core of Bauer Media Audio with a mission to leverage data as a strategic enabler across our nine European markets. Our goal is to provide trusted, actionable insights and robust data solutions that empower business growth, enhance audience engagement, and drive operational efficiency. 

The DDS team operates as a collaborative, cross-functional unit that bridges the gap between data and business strategy, delivering solutions that align with our organizational goals and market needs. We are structured to support our stakeholders with a combination of centralized capabilities and localized expertise, ensuring that data drives value across the entire organization. 

We see data not as a support function but as an integral business partner that collaborates across all domain and markets expertise to deliver impactful business outcomes. 

The role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and commercially aware Business Analyst to drive data-driven decision making across the organisation. You will play a critical role in bridging the gap between business teams and data teams, helping drive data-led decision-making across the organisation. You will work closely with teams across Commercial, Digital, Finance, and our local markets to understand their goals and ensure data solutions, reporting, and insights deliver maximum business value. 

Key responsibilities:

Business Partnership & Requirement Gathering 

• Act as a trusted partner to business teams to understand their objectives, challenges, and data needs. 

• Facilitate discovery workshops, elicit requirements and document findings

• Translate business needs into actionable data and reporting requirements for the data team. 

Team Collaboration

• Work closely with Data Engineers, BI Developers, and Data Scientists to deliver dashboards, reports, and data products. 

• Ensure data solutions are aligned with business goals and operational requirements. 

• Support the development and maintenance of key metrics, KPIs, and data definitions. 

Stakeholder Management 

• Facilitate feedback loops and continuous improvement of data products. 

• Help manage stakeholder expectations and prioritise data requests based on business impact. 

Documentation & Communication 

• Maintain a rolling requirements and discovery pipeline for the squad, that is what needs defining and by when, keeping pace with and feeding the Product Owner's market-level roadmap.

• Create clear and concise business requirements documents (BRDs), user stories, process maps, and data glossaries. 

• Support the delivery team with testing, validation, and UAT activities. 

What You'll bring:

• 2+ years of experience as a business analyst, preferably in a media, advertising or digital environment.  

• Strong skills in requirements gathering, stakeholder management, and documentation 

• Experience working alongside data teams (analytics, engineering, BI) 

• Comfortable working with SQL and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker) 

• Excellent communication skills – ability to simplify complex data concepts for business stakeholders 

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills 

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About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.

• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.

• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.

• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.

• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

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