Head of Data:People Analytics & Insights

Head of Data: People Analytics & Insights

Job Requisition ID: 33199 Closing Date: 04/12/2025 Birmingham, GBR, B1 1AY

Job Details

Job Band: F

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: HR

Location: Anywhere UK, but must be able to travel to Birmingham once or twice per week.

Proposed Salary Range: Up to £130,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Purpose of the Role

This is a high-impact leadership role requiring a visionary data leader who can balance technical depth, strategic influence and product thinking. You'll work closely with senior stakeholders across the BBC to position HR as a driver of organisational transformation, and ensure our people data capabilities are trusted, scalable, and future-ready.

As such, you will ensure that our people data is trusted, interoperable and designed as a high-value product.

Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of data professionals, creating a culture of excellence, inclusion, and continuous development.
• Drive the implementation of the Enterprise Data Strategy in delivering priority group use cases, ensuring alignment of the People Data Domain with-wide transformation goals.
• Partner with data platform, architecture, and technology teams to embed-grade capabilities that support analytics, AI, and automation.
• Establish a single, governed view of workforce data, covering employees, contingent workers, and international colleagues, with a focus on compliance, accuracy, and interoperability.
• Oversee the lifecycle of People Data Products ensuring they deliver measurable business value working with Technology partners.
• Develop a roadmap for integrating AI and advanced analytics into HR processes, enabling predictive insights and automation.
• Champion data literacy and culture across HR and the wider organisation, embedding data-led decision-making as a strategic capability.
• Collaborate with the HR Leadership Team and senior leaders to ensure people analytics informs workforce strategy and business performance.
• Lead engagement with external stakeholders (e.g. Ofcom, NAO) on regulatory data requests and obligations.

Skills and Experience Essential Criteria

• Proven experience developing and leading group data and analytics strategies, ideally in a complex or multi-brand organisation, aligned to a domain-oriented model.
• Demonstrated success in building and leading high-performing, cross-functional data teams and scaling analytical capability across business functions.
• Strong track record of driving data transformation and maturing data governance and architecture within a hybrid or federated environments, in support of system and process modernisation.
• Expertise in data product management, data platforms, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Ability to connect people analytics with business value, linking data insights to workforce, financial, and operational outcomes.

Desired but Not Required

• Experience with AI, machine learning, and automation in HR or enterprise analytics.
• Experience partnering across data, technology, finance, and operations to deliver enterprise outcomes.
• Understanding of data privacy, ethics, and governance in handling sensitive workforce data.
• Expertise in HR systems and processes (e.g., talent, learning, performance, engagement) and their data integration.
• Experience managing data programs across diverse geographies or organisational entities.

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.

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Redeployment

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