Company Description

Informa (FTSE 100) is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group. We’re the specialist’s specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs, and take better informed decisions.

IIRIS is a new platform built by Informa. It is composed by a suite of products designed to help Informa and its customers identify, build and establish better informed customer connections through insightful data gained via multiple interactions with Informa’s highly specialised products and communities.

IIRIS is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Head of Data Delivery to join our Data Value Chain team. As the Head of Data Delivery, you will be responsible for providing technical expertise and leadership across all aspects of data engineering, from data acquisition to distribution. You will lead a team of skilled data engineers, ensuring the successful delivery of data solutions while maintaining a high level of data quality, security, and reliability.

Job Description

Informa plc is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group. We’re the specialist’s specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions. We are now building a new Informa with the Growth Acceleration Plan II (GAP II) where customer centricity, Digital and Data is the beating heart. 

We are seeking to hire a Lead Business Analyst, AI to shape and drive requirements capture for prioritized use cases. The purpose of this role is to ensure we have a consistent stream of high-quality validated requirements to feed the development team which is aligned to the product strategy & roadmap.

The role suits passionate, proactive, goal-oriented candidates who are intellectually curious, and thrive in complicated but ambitious organisations. The role is well-suited to versatile candidates with a background in Business Analysis, Product Ownership, and Delivery Management. 

People with heart and ambition, and a strong mix of emotional and professional intelligence, will be successful in the role. The candidate will be working alongside colleagues including Architects, Engineers, and Delivery Managers. Outside of the team there will be deep collaboration with stakeholders in the brands and markets across all of Informa, to continually shape and deliver the roadmap as well as identify new opportunities to continue building a backlog of scalable AI capability for the group. 

Your Role: 

• The Lead BA will be expected to present concepts and specifications to key stakeholders, obtain project estimations that they will then relay to the Product Manager & Delivery Manager. They will contribute to analysing business needs and identifying requirements, validate compliance of business requirements in quality assurance and contributes to business acceptance. As well as this the BA should contribute to measuring the requirements fit and the effect on the business goal
• The BA’s work will be central in ensuring the teams capacity to identify and implement PoCs with emerging technologies that could benefit Tech in its march to becoming a digital business.
• Key focus areas from our product strategy are unlocking productivity from our colleague base and to improve CX for our customers
• Partnering with divisional stakeholders to refine requirements, and detail them to epic and story level, along with acceptance criteria. Work in lockstep with divisional Product Managers for internal and external customer validation. 
• Collaborate with AI delivery team & divisions to support deployment of solutions across Informa Group, using best practice change management techniques
• Manage and remove blockers ensuring the team can deliver successfully
• In developing rich requirements for AI capabilities for Informa, two considerations are essential. You will grasp the DNA of the divisions businesses, understanding how they operate commercially & you will be savvy to how the AI capabilities align to the goal of having a set of common capabilities for all divisions

Qualifications

• Deep interest in AI capabilities; the technologies, the emerging field, operationalising in the enterprise and how to truly unlock potential in a FTSE100 business 
• Get things done: highly organised, resourceful and action-oriented with experience driving focus, clarity and prioritisation in a fast-paced environment.  
• Commercial acumen: understand drivers of profitability and the commercial mechanics of our industry.  
• Decision-making: ability to work pragmatically, having the confidence to make quick decisions based on the available data and move forward at pace in an environment of ambiguity.  
• Communications and visibility: effective at managing expectations and communications (written and verbal) to all levels and disciplines in the organisation .  
• Organisational smarts: Experience working in a matrix-based organisation, building relationships and trust across a range of teams and functions. Know and understand how to bring people with you. 

Additional Information

Employee experience is very important to us at Informa. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritize promotions internally. Our benefits include: 

• Learning and development plan to assist with your career development   
• 25 days annual leave, 4 days for volunteering and a day off for your birthday!  
• Competitive Benefits
• Work with high quality specialist products
• Bright and friendly staff who are all “expert’s experts” and additional training and development for helping you achieve your career aspiration   
• Share-Match options - become a shareholder   
• Regular social events and networking opportunities 

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.  As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law. 

Please let us know of any adjustments we need to make for you to show us your best self. We want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process!

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