Lead Data Analyst – Global Viewing & Audience Insights
ITV
In this role you will steer the Global Viewing team’s data and insights strategy, establishing a robust, unified measurement framework for content performance across territories. You’ll triangulate ratings, market intelligence, and social sentiment to deliver a 360-degree view that informs decision-making and revenue efforts. As a strategic partner to Global Sales, Global Content, and Production Labels, you shape data narratives that drive commissioning, renewal, and go-to-market strategies. You’ll lead with automation and data quality to scale insights across the business.
Pay / Benefits- Flexible working
- Generous holiday allowance
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Competitive pension contribution
- Save as you earn / share purchase
- Wellbeing and volunteering days
- Define the roadmap for standardized viewing metrics across key territories and harmonize datasets for a consistent global view
- Develop methodologies to address data blind spots and augment performance using alternative sources
- Define data integrity rules and requirements for data pipelines and catalogue alignment
- Collaborate with tech teams to build automated data pipelines and self-serve dashboards
- Provide objective content performance reporting and early risk signals to leadership
- Create sales-oriented analyses to test and refine go-to-market tactics
- Use historical benchmarking for realistic success metrics in renewals and new commissions
- Act as strategic partner to 60+ production labels with data-driven insights to support creative and sales decisions
- Strategic Data Leadership with a track record of transforming manual reporting to automation
- Advanced SQL; expert data visualization with Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI
- Experience with global viewing datasets (BARB, Nielsen, AGF, Mediametrie, Oztam) and harmonizing linear/non-linear/SVOD data
- Experience designing data workflows, pipelines, warehousing or dashboards with engineering collaboration
- Proactive problem-solving to develop proxy metrics when data is unavailable
- Strong stakeholder management across Content, Sales, and Production
- Knowledge of global media landscape (Linear, AVOD, SVOD) and measurement currencies
- Forecasting and modelling experience; ability to build predictive insights
- Commercial collaboration with Sales to drive revenue using data-driven narratives
- Understanding of content performance drivers and how to translate data into qualitative conclusions
- Leadership and mentoring
- Strong communication tailored to diverse audiences
- Collaborative and proactive mindset
- SQL
- Looker
- Tableau
Reference: WJ-747_30380353