Business Analyst - TV Adsales, Broadcast Airtime Sales

Looking for a Senior Business Analyst with solid commercial TV Broadcast industry experience, with some experience in Broadcasting TV/Vod Advertising such as Adtech/Adsales/Airtime Sales/Avod etc. Specific experience around Ad inventory planning and forecasting, Ad slotting/optimisation, Ad creative and compliance management would be preferred.

Working closely with the business and product team that define outcomes, this role will focus on analysis to interpret that and produce the user stories for engineering/development. Looking for a self-starter with 6+ years similar Business Analysis experience gained within the Media/Broadcast Adsales sector and someone available on short notice, ideally within 2 weeks.

You will play a key role in delivering transformational commercial strategy by analysing and specifying the business needs of the future. Working alongside our Product, Design, Engineering, QA, Delivery and Change teams and business colleagues, you'll apply your natural curiosity, critical thinking and BA best practices to:

• Understand and document how our advertising business works today and what it will look like in future, from people and process to technology and data.
• Elicit and specify business needs and success criteria and produce the User Stories for Engineering/Software Development/Vendors.
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to design, evaluate and deliver software solutions that meet these needs.
• Facilitate the successful implementation, adoption and continuous improvement of solutions.

Required Skills/Experience

• 6+ years experience in a business analysis/Snr BA role.
• Business Analyst with solid commercial TV experience/Broadcast sector experience, involving advertising.
• Knowledge of the TV advertising sector and technologies such as Adtech/Adsales/Airtime Sales/Programmatic Advertising.
• Specific BA experience around Ad inventory planning and forecasting, Ad slotting/optimisation, Ad creative and compliance management preferred.
• Strong business, systems and data analysis skills with strong experience writing User Stories.
• Demonstrable experience applying BA techniques to broad, complex projects/products.
• Familiar with agile principles and practices, experience working in cross-functional product development teams.
• Curious and proactive - comfortable leading analysis efforts and working independently.
• High attention to detail - ensure accuracy and thoroughness of deliverables.
• Excellent interpersonal skills - can effectively frame and communicate opportunities/problems and respectfully challenge prevailing assumptions.
• Business process modelling - can map complex processes at different levels of abstraction.
• Domain modelling - can identify and model key concepts, entities and their relationships.
• Systems analysis - can review and document functions, rules, data and integrations.
• Requirements engineering - can elicit, analyse, define, validate and prioritise business requirements, logic, rules and constraints.
• Benefits analysis & realisation - can help quantify business benefits and validate expected outcomes were achieved.
• Vendor evaluation - can help assess vendor's capabilities and identify gaps.
• Software development - can help design and implement valuable software solutions aligned to organisation goals and product vision.

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