Location
London - Television Centre, 2 days in the office

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£75,000 - £80,000 per year, plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,441 and 15% bonus OTE

About the Role
BBC Studios is a globally renowned media company creating and distributing the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content. We are seeking a commercially minded and technically credible Head of Data Solutions to lead the development and delivery of data and analytics capabilities for BBC Studios Ad Sales globally. In this senior leadership role, you will define the BI data roadmap, lead a team of analysts, and drive best practices across data modelling, governance, and quality. You will play a key role in the transition to a centralised Snowflake data platform, ensuring reliable, accessible data that supports reporting, forecasting, and business performance insights. This is a hands-on leadership position with responsibility for technical direction, team development, delivery excellence, and senior stakeholder engagement, while remaining actively involved in delivering high-impact data solutions.

The Strategy & Business Intelligence team supports BBC Studios Ad Sales by driving commercial growth, business performance, and future capability through strategic insight, trusted data, connected commercial platforms, and high-quality business intelligence. The successful candidate will lead and develop the team, make a significant personal contribution to the design, development, and delivery of data, analytics, and BI solutions, and work closely with business and technology stakeholders to shape strategy while remaining actively involved in execution.

Experience
- Significant experience leading Business Intelligence, analytics, or data teams within a commercial environment, ideally across digital media, advertising, or publishing.
- Strong expertise in analytics, testing, measurement, and industry best practices.
- Strong understanding of modern data platforms, data architecture, warehousing, modelling, ETL/ELT, and engineering standards.
- Experience delivering trusted, scalable data products with strong governance, data quality, security, and compliance controls.
- Proven track record of shaping data strategy and roadmaps, translating business needs into impactful BI and analytics solutions.
- Advanced SQL skills with working knowledge of Python or other analytical programming languages.
- Experience managing third-party vendors and technology partners to achieve business outcomes.
- Demonstrated success in establishing BI and data functions from scratch, including team design, data infrastructure, governance, and operating models, or driving complex transformation initiatives.

About you
You are a hands-on leader with strong technical credibility and commercial acumen. You are able to set clear standards for solution design, delivery, documentation, testing, data quality, and ongoing support. You excel at partnering with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to translate commercial questions into robust data and analytics solutions. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, driving adoption and continuous improvement of BI data products while building and developing a high-performing team.

Qualifications
- Experience using AI-assisted analytics and data tooling to accelerate delivery of data products and insights is desirable but not required.
- Experience working with Data Governance teams and implementing enterprise governance practices is advantageous.
- Familiarity with data visualisation tools such as Tableau is preferred.
- Experience working with Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms in a production Business Intelligence environment is beneficial.
If you bring some of these skills along with transferable strengths, we encourage you to apply.