Position Summary

Discovery Digital Media is a well-funded start-up within Discovery Communications, a high-performing global team working at the dynamic intersection of Technology and Entertainment. As content creators in the digital space, we continuously leverage our technological capabilities to create immersive viewing experiences for iconic brands including Eurosport, GOLFTV, MotorTrend, and DPlay.

Eurosport produces authentic, premium and innovative content, on linear and digital platforms. It combines expertise, passion, and resources to develop high-value programmes and offer unrivalled coverage to viewers in 99 countries, in 21 languages. Having secured the exclusive European broadcast rights for the Olympics until 2024, there's no better time than now to join Eurosport on this incredible adventure! 

Responsibilities

Eurosport / Discovery is an international business with teams across Europe, and relationships with suppliers and organisations around the world.  We are building and growing direct-to-consumer digital products (both advertising and subscription supported), and are seeking a Technical Business Analyst to support that growth.

You will work as part of Eurosport Product team and work closely with the Analytics Product manager to lead conversations about analytics Requirements, build backlog and work with developers to deliver this. You will be responsible for representing these stakeholders to Technology work streams; specifically ensuring understanding, visibility and resolution of data issues. You will be required to complete multiple tasks correctly and to deadline and identify risks, escalating when necessary.

Working with major stakeholders across the entire business, you will develop solutions for analytics and data integration as well as analysis and reporting, ensuring that the business fully utilises its Analytics tools and solutions, making full use of technologies, processes, and applications to analyse data and deliver competitive intelligence. With a strong background in analytics in digital environment you will apply analysis methodologies and domain knowledge to ensure the implementation is efficient and futureproofed.

Requirements

• ISEB/BSC qualification or 5+ years professional experience in a Business Analysis function
• Degree level or above
• Strong Business Analyst with excellent analytical and presentation skills
• Demonstrable experience of applying Analytics tools and methodologies in digital environment
• Experience of working across all stages of software development with a mixture of in-house, outsourced and offshore teams
• Experience of defining requirements and Implement analytics tools in digital environment
• Ability to break down Analytics requirements for agile software development
• Experience of maintaining Backlog / Requirements in Jira
• Ability to summarise detail and produce quality deliverables (in the form of documents /slides)
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively between Product, Analytics and IT
• Ability to work independently, demonstrate flexibility and adaptability
• Exposure to data and analytics best practices
• Experience in Broadcast/Media domain - ideal but not a must

Technical Experience and knowledge in:

• Adobe Experience Cloud including Adobe Launch, Analytics and Heartbeat products
• Analytics on different platforms including mobile web, iOS and Android
• Analytics experience on connected tv devices (e.g., chromecast, Playstation) – ideal but not required
• Familiarity with technologies including: JSON, XML,SQL and other Query Tools
• Ensuring consistent measurement and use of data across teams