The Sun
Senior Business Analyst
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Role Overview
The Senior Business Analyst is a senior analytical voice at the intersection of product thinking, commercial analysis, and delivery execution. This role sets the standard of excellence for analysis, personally leads work on the most complex and highest-risk initiatives, and manages and develops other BAs working alongside them. The right person brings a product and user-problems mindset, uses AI as a daily practice tool, and is as comfortable influencing a roadmap as they are writing a user flow.
We are a fast-paced, forward-thinking, and enjoyable place to work. Business Analysts here are at the heart of our most exciting initiatives to ensure alignment between business goals and technical implementations.
Your Team
The Sun comprises digital product teams supporting the development and enhancement of The Sun Website, The Sun Mobile App, and The Sun membership products. Evolving these products is critical to the continued success of the brand. We are an agile, cross-functional programme, working together to ensure the digital products can continue to meet the needs of the business and customers by improving the user experience, underlying platform, and operational tools for teams.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end discovery lifecycle on complex initiatives, owning the analysis from problem definition through to a build-ready solution.
- Build strong relationships with key executive stakeholders, and align stakeholders and squads around objective data and evidence, leading workshops to drive rapid agreement on goals, priorities, and scope.
- Proactively contribute to and adopt the standard of excellence for analysis, defining and embedding templates, methodologies, and metric accountability frameworks that ensure consistency and quality.
- Directly manage and/or mentor other BAs, building individual capability in product thinking, AI fluency, post-launch validation, and commercial framing.
- Work closely with the Lead Business Analyst to maintain a view of programme priorities and ensure analytical effort is directed to the highest-value initiatives, and not absorbed by low-value work.
- Act as the connective tissue, ensuring logic and decisions across its initiatives are consistent and don't create downstream problems for other teams.
- Apply commercial literacy to connect analysis to revenue impact, cost trade-offs, and business opportunity - framing recommendations in ways that actively steer roadmap and product decisions.
- Leverage AI effectively in their daily work and continuously identify new opportunities to improve analytical speed and quality.
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What We’re Looking For
You will join The Sun Customer Product team, acting as a strategic partner to Technology, Marketing, and other Customer teams. Operating at the heart of our most critical teams, you will drive initiatives across the entire subscriber lifecycle. Hence, we are looking for someone who has:
- Experienced leading discovery analysis on complex, high-risk product initiatives, with a track record of translating ambiguous problems into clear, executable logic and requirements.
- Proven ability to operate at senior stakeholder level - building strong, trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, framing analysis in commercial terms, and driving rapid decision-making on high-stakes trade-offs.
- Experience managing and developing Business Analysts, with demonstrable success in shifting ways of working toward higher-value, more product-led analysis. Where required, actively support hiring for additional contract resource, from designing assessments through to evaluating and interviewing candidates.
- Strong analytical literacy - able to connect analytical findings to revenue impact, cost to serve, and business opportunity, and communicate this fluently to non-analytical audiences.
- Experience contributing to or improving practice standards, templates, or methodologies at team or programme level.
- Ability to maintain a clear view of priorities and proactively allocate analytical effort to where it will have the greatest impact.
- Awareness of competitive product landscapes, with the ability to incorporate competitor intelligence into strategic decisions and discovery planning.
- Advanced, demonstrable use of AI tools in analytical work - including experience building or formalising AI workflows or productivity standards for a team.
About Us
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, Talk, and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion, and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events, and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
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Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles, and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect, and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to maximize and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities: attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 13 employee-led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like-minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
- 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 including coverage for pre-existing conditions
- Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
- ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
- Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
- Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
- Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage, and counselling
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at careers@news.co.uk to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.
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