BARB Operations Analyst

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Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies. Kantar’s 25,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.

Our media colleagues are expert in understanding the changing media landscape. This includes audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media. Their global coverage and local expertise enable clients to better understand media audiences and their relationships with brands to optimise investment.

Job Title: BARB Operations Analyst

Location: London, Westgate

Salary: Competitive

Fixed Term Contract - Till 2024

Role Description

At Kantar Media Division we are proud to be the official provider of TV viewing data for the broadcast channels in the UK.

BARB (The Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board) is a key player in the UK television and advertising industry. Where they are the official provider of television audience viewing figures across all channels available to watch in the UK. Information on viewing behaviours and analytics is collated via GPRS from ‘Panel Homes’, a sample to represent the 24 + million UK home viewers. This allows BARB subscribers to access next day data on UK’s ratings, 365 days a year. BARB data is used in deciding the making and distribution of TV programmes by commercial TV stations, advertising agencies and advertisers to negotiate prices for commercial airtime and to plan TV advertising campaigns.

It’s an exciting time to join the team; with a renewal of the BARB contract till 2029, we are looking to increase our team headcount.

So, are you a tech savvy but also analytical, a person who can think on your feet? Apply now and join the team. We are looking to recruit a thorough and hardworking candidate to join our friendly team of 3, as a BARB Operations Analyst.

Job Role Requirements

• Support with our BARB Contract
• Be a point of call for external and internal stakeholders
• Liaise with the BARB team in their requirements for new technology and systems.
• Producing detailed requirements and working with development team to ensure correct understanding of them.
• Provide analysis on feasibility and implementation
• Analysing test data to ensure that requirements have been implemented correctly
• Assist in deployment and testing of new software releases related to processing of data from PM7 and FM2 measurement meters
• Working to ensure key milestones are met during roll-out of project
• Review requests, participate in testing and checking tech.

Desirable skills

• Linux experience
• System deployment
• Oracle data base experience
• Data warehouse experience
• Willingness to go the extra mile when necessarily.
• Project Management Experience

Role Requirements

Client/Stakeholder Satisfaction

• Establish credibility with Stakeholder and external
• Instill trust in stakeholders and the business

Service Orientated

• To work as One Kantar, focusing on the right outcome for the business.
• Collaborate unconditionally with Stakeholders
• Apply judgement to data to support business decisions, offering analytic and insights to translate challenges

Communicator

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to articulate complex scenarios
• Be responsive, listen and question

Resilience

• Make difficult decision in a timely manor
• Confidence to push back when required

Adaptability

• Be flexible to responding to business needs
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.