Overview
Position Title: Business Analyst
Company: ITV
Location: Lichfield, UK
Job Description
In this role, you will work with senior members of the division, and with business and operational stakeholders to understand the problems that need to be solved, bringing domain knowledge and analysis skills, to aid the successful definition and implementation of business and technology change.
We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst from a media & entertainment background to join the Content Supply Technology team, to help us support the evolution of our content supply chain. Our teams work across catalogue, rights, scheduling, asset management and content distribution domains.
ITV’s Content Supply Technology department is a key group within ITV’s Technology division that is responsible for the technology platforms, engineering and products that enable us to deliver ITVs famous and popular content from its multiple sources to our online platforms, to our B2B partners and to ITV’s family of linear TV channels.
Responsibilities:
- Experienced in documenting test scenarios and running systems integration tests and facilitating user acceptance and end to end testing
- Experienced in eliciting requirements from business stakeholders and writing user stories for product features, defining the acceptance criteria and test conditions
- Experienced in consultancy disciplines including business process analysis, requirements definition and vendor evaluations
- A strong demonstrated background within Business Analyst roles or similar
- Demonstrated experience in the media & entertainment, content distribution or broadcast sectors, and is knowledgeable of the industry partners, competitors and technologies is essential
- Experienced in complex projects with lots of legacy processes, systems, data and integrations
- Experienced in working in agile ways with scrum/kanban product teams
Requirements:
- Expert in analysing complex information and data, and using it to recommend solutions
- A quick learner, able to grasp new concepts and develop a good understanding of new business domains.
- Enjoys technical challenges, knows to what level they need to take this understanding, and can communicate to a level appropriate to the audience.
- Confident in business analysis practices with the ability to hit the ground running
- Has excellent written and verbal communication skills, and comfortable with presenting to stakeholders
- Able to work independently with little direction and to tight and evolving deadlines
- Is tenacious, able to overcome obstacles and push self to achieve delivery in spite of
- challenging circumstances
- Thinks analytically, is able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts and explore and evaluate them systematically.
About ITV
It’s an exciting time to join ITV. With the largest commercial family of channels in the UK and with our global footprint growing, we’re about to take not only our business, but also broadcasting, as we know it, to a whole new level.
We have a rich history for making fantastic award winning programs and we’re proud of it. In addition to traditional broadcasting on our channels, we deliver our content on demand through numerous platforms, both directly and via the ITV Hub. Through ITV Studios, our international content business - the largest production company in the UK, we produce content for both our own channels and third parties in the UK and increasingly overseas.
Our leadership is stronger than ever, together, we all work hard to focus on our people, on new technologies and the creative impact that makes ITV such a powerhouse.
We love what we do for our audience; we’ve built a lasting, warm and reassuring relationship with our viewers. They trust, like and look to us every day. We make our audience think, we make them sigh, we make them smile. If the prospect makes you do the same, we’d love for you to explore our current opportunities.
