Principal Tracking Analyst Principal Tracking Analyst

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.Job Introduction Are you excited about how to capture data to turn into actionable insights? Do you want the job satisfaction of knowing what you do improves the lives of millions of people across the UK? As a Principal Data Tracking Implementation Analyst at the BBC, you will play a pivotal role in helping us collect the data we need to make data informed decisions. You will be working alongside our product managers and product analysts to understand what metrics and KPIs need to be tracked, and then translate them into the right data structures and schemas. You will also work with our engineering teams to help them tag the events/properties correctly. You will also be working with our data governance colleagues to update our data dictionary with the right business information. By contributing to the tracking implementation plan and roadmap across the portfolio, you'll be helping us to have high quality data to make decisions for the future. Within the Product team you will be focused on making sure we have the implementation to ensure we are collecting the data we need to inform the decisions we want to make. This role will not purely be focused on implementation, nor be the only one working on that, but is there to give greater focus on this very important area., You will:

• Contribute to the data tracking plan for the digital product portfolio by collaborating with key stakeholders across the BBC on roadmap alignment
• Drive the strategic direction of our tracking schema evolution, ensuring alignment with the broader visions of our various digital products
• Lead and drive the definition of tracking event schemas across multiple products; conforming to a coherent event taxonomy and naming standards and conventions
• Transform business requirements to technical event specifications developed with other members of the Product Management and Analytics teams
• Own acceptance criteria, definition of done and troubleshooting of analytics related issues and provide QA sign off for tech implementation alongside product engineering teams
• Communicate the importance of data tracking to a range of audiences
• Implement data quality checks to ensure high quality for the data collected and work with Data Governance teams to ensure we adhere to BBC wide processes and standards
• Provide subject matter expertise concerning the solution roadmap for tracking across the business
• Provide support to stakeholders for questions, advice or incidents relating to tracking or tracking schemas
• Potentially line manage other tracking implementation analysts
  
  Previous experience implementing data tracking or tagging in websites, web applications and/or mobile applications at scale
• Previous experience of creating and implementing tracking plans across a portfolio of products
• Previous experience of leading others to in tracking implementation roles
• Previous experience of translating business requirements into technical/data requirements
• Experience of using analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Adobe analytics, ATI Piano, Mixpanel) or tagging tools (e.g., Google Tag Manager)
• Strong understanding of data tracking and tagging best practices
• Some experience of using SQL, HTML and Javascript
• Experience of working with data quality tools or writing data quality test is a bonus
• Experience of working in media organisations is a bonus
Teamwork and stakeholder management
• Ability to listen to others' ideas and build on them
• Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collaborate effectively, working alongside other team members towards the team's goals, and enabling others to succeed, where possible.
• Ability to prioritise. A structured approach and ability to bring other on the journey.
• Strong attention to detail
  
  The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification. Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack Here.