Senior Research Executive - EXTEND Senior Research Executive - EXTEND

We are looking for a senior researcher to join our Pan-BBC Studios Insight Team. This team is responsible for providing research insight to a variety of areas within the business, particularly brand, social media, gaming, consumer products and licensing. Reporting into the Head of Audience Planning, the core responsibility of this role is to deliver relevant consumer and brand insight to teams working on digital/social media, new business, gaming, new IP, brand/marketing, and consumer products, among others. Analysis of TV programme performance is not the focus of this role. Responsibilities

• Guide colleagues to understand consumer and brand insight, building a reputation as a go-to source of insight.
• Be an expert in our analytic tools and subscriptions, such as YouGov and Statista, and use them to identify commercial opportunities for BBC Studios.
• Create compelling ways to communicate insights and deliver them through meetings, presentations, email and webinars.
• Keep track of wider audience trends and emerging competitors, articulate how and why these might affect BBC Studios' business
• Proactively build relationships and collaborate with data teams and other insight teams, taking a lead in ensuring that our work dovetails and delivers fresh insights.
• Contribute to research agency work including writing briefs and providing feedback to help ensure conclusions are relevant, actionable and of high standards.
  
  Extensive experience in market research and data analysis - ideally related to digital/social and/or gaming. Brand and consumer product experience would be beneficial but is not essential.
• Proficient at extracting insights from secondary data sources using analytical tools, e.g. audience profiling tools (YouGov profiles, GWI, TGI), digital tools (Tubular, Synthesio etc), data sets such as Omdia, Ampere.
• Experience of making significant contributions towards research projects.
• A passion and aptitude for sharing knowledge and insight creatively, whilst utilising analytical skills to clearly communicate data
• A keen interest in the Media industry and its outputs
Desirable
• Proactive - a self-starter who uses initiative and gets things done.
• Analytical and strategic - a natural at sifting through complexity to identify what matters in relation to the objective of the work.
• Takes responsibility and has pride in their work and the quality of outputs.
• Capable of working on multiple projects simultaneously and delivering on time.
• Creative - able to develop new and interesting ways of doing things.
• Highly collaborative - a team player who will connect with colleagues without being asked.
  
  BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content.


• We offer a competitive salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more
• Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation