Senior Agile Business Analyst

at  NIELSENIQ

Job Description

Persistent and dogged approach allied with proven diplomacy and persuasive skills.

• Hands-on experience and /or formal training or qualifications in the Product Owner Role and the Scrum Manager Role
• Metadata subject matter expert, likely to have approx. 7-10 years hands-on direct experience in a senior role
• Self-starter able to work well under own initiative and capable of exercising a high degree of autonomy, able to prioritize workload and with excellent attention to detail.
• Strengths in problem solving, creative thinking, and decision making
• Relationship management and interpersonal skills, ability to foster a cooperative work environment and overcome potential tensions. Able to consult and influence peers and senior colleagues
• Ability to work with and mange highly diverse teams in terms of personality types and working styles. Understand the different needs of individuals and how working methods can be reasonably adjusted to be as accommodating as possible. Think and act creatively to get the best out of people.
• Expert knowledge of the information standards in use in the global book industry and good general understanding of the book trad

• To work as joint Sprint/Scrum Manager for Book Demand Management with the Program Director, Nielsen BookData to closely manage the program of work on a daily basis
• To take direct lead responsibility for management of Sprint Planning and Resource Planning; Release Management; Backlog Review and Organization: Running specified Stand Up Meetings.
• To act as Product Owner for major developments on core Metadata Processing systems (eg the main metadata processing system, E2E) including Rules and System Functionality.
• To ensure that requirements for development are complete, accurate and timely.
• To project manage selected individual projects for any part of the BookData business that fall outside the scope of Book Demand Management
• To provide guidance and mentorship on project responsibilities including Test Management to team members as required.
• Act as the escalation point for the Operations Testing & Integration analysis team for external or internal queries relating to Dataflow or E2E.
• Reviewing requirements for core metadata system developments against existing system functionality and identify if changes are needed. Define and document the required changes.
• Responsible for analysing opportunities for extensions and enhancements to Nielsen Book data services and new service opportunities. This will include working with colleagues, and potentially with external organisations, to define and document product opportunities to a sufficient level of detail for them to be evaluated and ultimately actioned.
• Contribute as required to other development projects, large and small. This is a senior role within the Book business and will be required to exercise significant autonomy and authority, with substantial experience of managing teams, projects and agile sprints.
  Qualifications

Persistent and dogged approach allied with proven diplomacy and persuasive skills.

• Hands-on experience and /or formal training or qualifications in the Product Owner Role and the Scrum Manager Role
• Metadata subject matter expert, likely to have approx. 7-10 years hands-on direct experience in a senior role
• Self-starter able to work well under own initiative and capable of exercising a high degree of autonomy, able to prioritize workload and with excellent attention to detail.
• Strengths in problem solving, creative thinking, and decision making
• Relationship management and interpersonal skills, ability to foster a cooperative work environment and overcome potential tensions. Able to consult and influence peers and senior colleagues
• Ability to work with and mange highly diverse teams in terms of personality types and working styles. Understand the different needs of individuals and how working methods can be reasonably adjusted to be as accommodating as possible. Think and act creatively to get the best out of people.
• Expert knowledge of the information standards in use in the global book industry and good general understanding of the book trade

Additional Information
Hybrid Model role
We offer a hybrid working model to the majority of our colleagues and competitive core benefits as well additional benefits.