Junior Business Analyst


Your Team:
Join the News Broadcasting Digital Team, where we drive digital innovation creating award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions. You will work across the Audio Team, which looks after our universal web player housing Virgin Radio, Times Radio, and talkSPORT, helping us maintain brand consistency across a diverse digital portfolio. Additionally, the team includes backend engineers who look after customer data and user preferences, ensuring we deliver a seamless experience to our audience.

Your Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside the Product Manager and Senior BAs to learn how to translate complex business needs into ready sprint items. You will partner with developers to ensure system solutions align with long-term business goals and technical specifications. Furthermore, you will champion value creation by ensuring that delivered stories provide clear feedback and benefits to the business.

Day to day you will:

  • Work within an Agile product team that comprises engineering, QA, product management, and UX&D.

  • Engage in business analysis activities that ensure we continue to develop and improve our widely recognised media products.

  • Analyze, document, and improve existing backend workflows, APIs, data structures, and integrations.

  • Collaborate with technical teams to gather and translate business requirements into backend system designs.

  • Research best practices and strategic direction within the industry to share insights with the team.

What we're looking for from you:

  • Ability to elicit requirements through various techniques and demonstrate curiosity by asking \"Why\" until the root cause is found.

  • Strong verbal and written skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical people.

  • Ability to present information in different styles according to the need of the dev team and the stakeholder type.

  • Understanding of iterative product development including MVP, prototyping, and lean start-up techniques.

  • Ability to create simple flowcharts or diagrams to visualize user journeys.

  • Knowledge of responsive websites, REST APIs, and tools such as Postman and GraphQL is desirable.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

 Some of our benefits include:

  • Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

  • Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes

  • 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme

  • Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

  • Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

  • Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

  • Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

  • A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

  • Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you to apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].



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