Company Name: Channel 4
Job Details: Commercial Project Lead (6 month FTC)
Job Description
Job Title: Commercial Project Lead (6 Month FTC)
Reports to: Head of Audience Insights
Department: Strategy, Policy & Insight
Location: London/Hybrid
Salary: Basic salary starting from £106,000 negotiable dependant on experience
DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION
The Strategy, Policy & Insight (Function) are trusted thought-leaders bringing expert strategy, policy, market & audience insight - challenging and advising the business to drive delivery of Channel 4's strategy and remit.
The new centralised Audience Insights (Sub function) purpose is to be independent thought leaders at the heart of Channel 4's creative and commercial decision-making, bringing a single source of truth and big picture perspective, challenging and advising the business to ensure profitable business growth through the use of data.
JOB PURPOSE
This role will lead project management responsibilities across a wide range of commercial and operational projects. This role will coordinate and project manage deliverables across Execs (and their teams), drive recommendations and ensure we build strong businesses cases for projects across a number of key commercial related projects.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To lead on major Commercial and operational projects that require immediate attention ensuring strong coordination and consistent management while Commercial-focused insight resources are currently undergoing a re-org.
- Building thorough business cases for existing and new projects coordinating and project managing deliverables across Execs (and their teams who will form part of the project teams).
- Negotiating with C-Suite leaders to prioritise the value-add insights portfolio provided by the team & renegotiating workload capacity conflicts across their BP team and Specialist peers to meet that agreement.
- The highly effective, ongoing direct relationship management of C-Suite Execs & their Senior Leaders including providing high-value, accurate, powerful intelligence & insight that enables leader business decisions to achieve C4 strategic objectives.
- Leading the interpretation and translation of data relevant to the decision into insight reports, breaking down complexity through storytelling to ensure easy understanding by the business stakeholder.
- Driving innovation of new approaches to insight based on new market and industry perspectives, data sets, analysis methods or modelling tools.
- Identifying the required data path to meet the insight need and work across the Audience Insight teams and wider business to source advanced expert insight capacity & subject matter expertise.
- Contributing ideas, options & solutions to the Head of Audience Insight to evolve the insight sub-function's impact, value & capability.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS / STAKEHOLDERS
C-Suite leaders & Senior Leaders across all areas of C4 for which the Insight team provides a service.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Project management and business case construction - proven track record of successfully delivering high profile data projects that involve cross-company coordination with Executive oversight.
- Insight capability - Proven track record and knowledge of insight provision and the activities that underpin strong insight & intelligence.
- Business understanding - Excellent understanding of C4's industry sector, competitor activity, business pressures, market & financial challenges & the key drivers to achieve the pivot to digital' Future4 strategy.
- Gravitas & confidence - Strong track record of engaging with C-suite/Senior Leaders and building long-term trusted relationships.
- Influencing & storytelling - Proven ability to influence C-suite stakeholders, using problem-solving skills, the ability to translate complex data to clear messages.
- Collaboration skills - proactive ability to build a collaborative environment within the insights function and across the business.
- Negotiation skills - strong persuasive skills to challenge leaders, drive wider perspectives and agree a deliverable outcome.
- Appetite to innovate - keeping abreast of value-add and best in class insight methods, tools & techniques relevant to C4's business challenges.
- People management - experience of leading a small specialist team to deliver an accurate, high quality and effective data service to Exec level stakeholders.
DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Project Management skills - experience in briefing and project managing external research agencies (for ad hoc insight only) and managing delivery timelines.
COMPETENCES
- Enabling Strategy & Change
- Advancing Analytics Capability
- Managing Data & Information
- Harnessing Insights & Learning
Benefits
There are a million reasons why it's great to work at Channel 4, here are just a few of the perks for you:
- Private medical insurance with NO EXCESS
- Free Virtual GP access for employees
- Free Female Health hormone test each year
- Free Tastecard membership
- Financial guidance 1-2-1's available each quarter
- Free OnHand volunteering membership
- Discounted Gym memberships
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Holiday Buy/Sell
Equal Opportunities
Channel 4's purpose is to create change through entertainment; by representing unheard voices, challenging with purpose and delivering content which reflects the diversity of different communities across the UK.
We are only able to deliver on this remit by having a workforce rich in diversity of thought, background and lived experience. As an employer we encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on disability, age, gender reassignment, gender expression, criminal history, length of time spent unemployed, marriage or civil partnership status, national origin, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
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