Lead Insight Business Partner

Leads a team of 4 Business Partners & 16 Insight Analysts who are expert thought-leaders and based on a deep understanding of business challenges, bring high-value & relevant data, innovative analysis & business insight across market, content, viewer, commercial to C-Suite & Senior Leaders. Their role is to translate it for those stakeholders, drive recommendations that challenge and enable Leaders to make profitable business.,

• The highly effective, ongoing direct relationship management of C-Suite Execs & their Senior Leaders including the CEO & Exec Committee as a body, providing high-value, accurate, powerful intelligence & insight that enables leader business decisions to achieve strategic objectives.


• Leading the interpretation and translation of data relevant to the decision into insight reports, breaking down complexity through storytelling to ensure easy understanding by the business stakeholder and easy business application to the decisions required.


• Negotiating an agreed portfolio of insight deliverables with those Exec & Senior Leader stakeholders, managing the workstack, team priorities and team capacity across Insight Analysts & Specialists and on occasion project managing external suppliers of specialist research (eg Research Agencies) to deliver this portfolio


• Driving innovation of new approaches to insight based on new market and industry perspectives, data sets, analysis methods or modelling tools


• Identifying the required data path to meet the insight need and work across the BP's, Insight Analysts & the Specialist teams to source advanced expert research or analysis capacity


• Contributing ideas, options & solutions to the Head of Audience Insight to evolve the insight sub-function's impact, value & capability


• Full line management responsibility for a team of 4 Insight Business Partners and second line manager responsibility for 16 Insight Analysts to provide powerful evidence-based insight reports, building team capability, coaching and developing the team members to provide a best-in class service to the business


• Responsibility to deputise for the Head of Audience Insight during annual leave etc (for instance translating analysis for CEO / Dir External Comms speaking events or deputising for the BP area in Function Dept meetings)
  
  Insight capability - Proven track record and knowledge of insight provision and the activities that underpin strong insight & intelligence


• Business understanding - Excellent understanding of industry sector, competitor activity, business pressures, market & financial challenges & the key drivers to achieve the pivot to digital' Future strategy


• Gravitas & confidence - Strong track record of engaging with C-suite/Senior Leaders and building long-term trusted relationships. Capabilities include personal confidence, emotional intelligence and capability to challenge, debate, innovate, advise and recommend solutions


• Influencing & storytelling - Proven ability to influence C-suite stakeholders, using problem-solving skills, the ability to translate complex data to clear messages and bring well considered, high value recommendations to drive profitable decision-making


• Collaboration skills -proactive ability to build a collaborative environment within the insights function and across the business to drive the best possible outcome


• Negotiation skills - strong persuasive skills to challenge leaders, drive wider perspectives and agree a deliverable outcome


• Appetite to innovate - keeping abreast of value-add and best in class insight methods, tools & techniques relevant to business challenges


• People management - experience of leading a small specialist team to deliver an accurate, high quality and effective data service to Exec level stakeholders
  
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