PowerBI Developer (12 month FTC) in London

Who we are and what we do

About the company: the company is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. We're made up of 10 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

What you'll be doing

Core responsibilities:

• The role will work closely with teams across the organisation to understand diverse business processes and data needs, promote knowledge sharing, and encourage the use of common best practices in analytics and reporting.
• The role will support approved change requests throughout the full development lifecycle, ensuring that solutions meet agreed specifications and deliver clear business value.
• The role will play a key part in the design and delivery of the HUK Data Strategy, actively supporting the transition from Cognos to Power BI and from on-premise solutions to a cloud-based analytics platform.
• This includes building and maintaining data models, reports and dashboards, and supporting user training and adoption.
• The role will contribute to the organisation’s data and analytics transformation by supporting the migration to Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, helping define future-state standards, patterns and best practices.
• This exciting role will work closely with Business Stakeholders, Data Engineering and IT to ensure migrated solutions are accurate, trusted and aligned with enterprise data architecture.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Collating and understanding business analytics and reporting requirements, translating these into functional specifications and live reporting and data solutions.
• Providing technical business analysis support, including process mapping and data analysis where required.
• Leading or supporting the analysis, mapping and replication of existing standard and operational reports from Cognos into Power BI, validating outputs with business users to ensure consistency, accuracy and trust.
• Partnering with stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve, simplify or retire legacy reports and datasets during migration.

Power BI & Microsoft Fabric delivery:

• Designing, building and maintaining Power BI workspaces, end-to-end Power BI data models, datasets, reports and dashboards.
• Supporting the design and use of Microsoft Fabric components in collaboration with Data Engineering.

Change, adoption & stakeholder engagement:

• Supporting change management and user adoption during the transition to Power BI.
• Acting as a Power BI subject-matter expert for the business.
• Providing BI support and training to users across Hachette and selected third parties.

Data platform & operational support:

• Playing a key role in data migration and data analysis initiatives.
• Monitoring data warehouse processing, data quality and performance.
• Creating and maintaining documentation to support cross-team knowledge sharing, training and solution handover.

Who we are looking for

Skills/Knowledge:

• Experience using Power BI reporting solutions in a business environment.
• Experience designing and maintaining BI data models, using Power BI.
• Working knowledge of SAP data structures or equivalent ERP systems.
• Experience analysing large and complex datasets.
• Understanding of modern cloud-based analytics architectures.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and organisational skills.
• Flexibility and adaptability, with the ability to work effectively in a changing environment.

Desirable:

• Experience working in the publishing, distribution, retail or supply-chain sectors.
• Experience using Cognos reporting solutions in a business environment.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric or other cloud-based data platforms.

What we offer:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increasing to 30 days after 5 years (+ bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• Generous pension schemes.
• Rent deposit loans.
• 2 community days per year.
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months).
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Eye care vouchers.
• Wide-ranging training library.
• Development programmes (including mentoring).
• Up to 70% off book purchases.
• A charity bookshelf.
• An active range of staff-led employee networks.
• Season ticket loans.

This role can be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Our commitment: Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach.