Head of People Analytics, Sky

Salary not provided

GCP

Python

Tableau

Scala

Java

Excel

BigQuery

Expert level

London

3 days a week in office (Osterley, London)

Broadband and telecommunications company

Open for applications

Broadband and telecommunications company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BEntertainmentTelecommunicationsMedia

Open for applications

Salary not provided

GCP

Python

Tableau

Scala

Java

Excel

BigQuery

Expert level

London

3 days a week in office (Osterley, London)

1001+ employees

B2CB2BEntertainmentTelecommunicationsMedia

Company mission

To connect people with the very best entertainment, sports, news, arts and local, original content.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Deep Experience in a senior leadership role leading a People analytics & reporting team or consulting role with increasing responsibility at a global company and experience in producing data strategies and implementation
Management: Demonstrated record of managing large global teams and/or in a matrixed environment
Senior stakeholder relationships: Strong experience in managing senior stakeholders (exec/PLT level) and able to prioritise effectively to manage the teams workload. Able to manage and maintain relationships “upwards”, “downwards” and “sideways” to influence outcomes required
Political management: Demonstrated record of managing complex political situations, being brave to challenge upwards but also displaying the pragmatism to deliver to achieve outcomes
Story Telling: Strong ability to communicate at an exec-business level using the data & insights developed by the team; ensuring that presentations are pitched at exec “business speak” vs. data; being able to communicate the impact of actions in a way that is meaningful to the business leader and enables their business objectives
Challenge & Innovate: Challenge the status quo and continually bring the “outside-in” to drive innovation within the team
Commerciality: Strong experience in being able to translate data and people insights into commercial propositions and performance
Business acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance (both people drivers of performance and financial literacy, e.g. business KPIs, business cases) and the external benchmarks which inform this
Strong analytical reasoning: identify workforce insights and develop hypotheses; recommend the data and analytical products to meet these requirements
Detail orientated whilst being able to translate the detail into a story that is easily digestible to senior stakeholder forums
Impact and influence: ability to build the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and influencing senior stakeholders
Strong multi-tasking abilities, flexibility, and patience in a fluid environment
“Can-do” mentality to drive innovative ideas and execution techniques
Deep technical hands-on expertise in data analytics, data visualisation, organisational network analyses, business intelligence, and reporting
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint with experience of visualisation tools such as Tableau
Knowledge or experience of working with Google Cloud Platforms products like BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Machine Leaning or similar cloud solutions (desirable)
Programming skills in object-oriented programming language such as Java, Python, and Scala
Familiarity in using Big Data ecosystems and driving strategy

What the job involves

Reporting into: Director of Strategic Workforce
Senior Leader to own the development and delivery of Sky’s People Analytics vision, strategy, and execution roadmap
Senior Leader to lead the development and delivery of Sky’s People Analytics & Reporting vision, strategy, and execution roadmap
Ensure that the People Analytics & reporting vision and strategy delivers for Skys business and people strategy
Manage senior exec-level stakeholders outcomes across Sky balancing delivering “the Sky Way” against a need to deliver the teams strategic objectives
Lead a dedicated People Analytics & Reporting team to deliver People reporting and data needs and the build and growth of the People Analytics Engine
Build a high-performance culture where the team is dynamic and able to deliver to senior stakeholders needs quickly whilst being able to continue to move forward longer-term team objectives
Challenge the status quo and continually bring the “outside-in” to drive innovation within the team
Provide strategic support to the People Directorate and business in the areas of people metrics, reporting, and advanced predictive analytics capabilities
Build partnerships, internal and external, working closely with senior stakeholders in the People Directorate, Sky Data, Technology and vendors to deliver tools and system solutions required
Translate people data and insights into commercial “so-whats” and “business speak”; being able to tell stories that will resonate with senior stakeholders and forums in Sky
Drive the evolution of the People analytics capability into predictive and prescriptive analytical offerings
Ownership of the maintenance and quality assurance of our People data, reports and key metrics
Develops and maintains the strategy for People analytical tools and technology to develop and analyse enterprise-wide people and other cross-functional data as needed, leveraging AI and ML to optimise the user experience
Actively look to mentor the wider Strategic workforce team, broadening their capabilities and experience
Management of budgetary spend where appropriate

Application process

End Date: November 2, 2024

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Our take

Sky formed through the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990, making it the UK's largest pay-TV company. After the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in 2014, Sky Group was formed, transforming the UK company into Europe's leading entertainment and media group.

With the recent success of their original content, Sky doubled their investment into this space by 2024 with a brand new movie and TV studio being built. This is expected to create an additional £3 billion of production investment in UK creative sector in the first five years alone.

Sky's streaming service, Now TV, was launched in 2012 to compete with the rising tide of Netflix and, more recently, with Amazon's Prime Video. With pay-TV subscriptions dropping and the video streaming industry expected to grow by a further 20% by 2027, Sky has remained competitive by offering a range of deals, partnering with Netflix, and developing its own TV - Sky Glass, as it aims to keep up with consumer trends.