Business Analyst

The Times and The Sunday Times represent a combined 400 years of covering news and providing comment and analysis on the UK and the world. We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a part of the nation’s cultural heritage.

Your team: Content Platforms - The Times

Your role: We are looking for a Business Analyst to join the Content Platforms Times (NewsPress) team. You will be a part of a cross-functional team that comprises software engineering, product management, business analysis (that’s you!), QA and UX&D. This team builds and manages the editorial tools used by The Times newsroom to produce and curate world-class content every day.

In this role, you’ll show passion for technical challenges and the bravery to take risks with bold ideas. We want you to help us build self-organised, highly motivated teams with the curiosity to unravel complex problems and the optimism to take exciting, innovative approaches.

Day to day you will:

• Facilitate and lead on requirements gathering, analysis and prioritisation with the Product Manager during all phases of the delivery lifecycle

• Work in partnership with the Product Manager(s) to ensure backlogs are high quality in terms of content, visibility, and understanding of business value

• Perform in depth analysis on prioritised initiatives in a way that they can eventually be broken down into clearly understandable epics and user stories that can be prioritised according to their clearly outlined business value

• Facilitate conversations outlining potential solutions and prioritising options based on business requirements

• Ensure there is feedback to the team and the business stakeholders on the value that was created

• Love problem solving and be able to absorb a range of sometimes conflicting requirements to narrow down potential solutions to provide options and recommendations

What we’re looking for from you:

Business Analysis

• Can analyse requirements and their wider commercial content through using techniques which are appropriate to the task and stakeholders involved such as user stories

• Has experience of business analysis within an agile environment

• Can oversee the implementation of new technology and systems

Facilitation and Communication

• Can build, maintain and manage excellent relationships with business and technology stakeholders

• Can promote collaborative ways of working between business and technology stakeholders

• Can promote effective ways of working and communication within the team

• Can formulate ways for businesses to improve, based on previous research

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.