Who we are and what we do
About Hachette UK
Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.
We're made up of 10 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.
Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Little, Brown, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2026 British Book Awards; Orion (2021 Publisher of the Year Award Winner); John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Headline; Octopus, and Bookouture. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hachette Learning is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.
Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third largest trade and educational publisher. As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, and Ireland.
It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.
What you'll be doing
Core responsibilities.
The role will work closely with teams across the organisation to understand diverse business processes and data needs, promote knowledge sharing, and encourage the use of common best practices in analytics and reporting.
The role will support approved change requests throughout the full development lifecycle, ensuring that solutions meet agreed specifications and deliver clear business value.
The role will play a key part in the design and delivery of the HUK Data Strategy, actively supporting the transition from Cognos to Power BI and from on-premise solutions to a cloud-based analytics platform. This includes building and maintaining data models, reports and dashboards, and supporting user training and adoption.
The role will contribute to the organisation’s data and analytics transformation by supporting the migration to Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, helping define future-state standards, patterns and best practices, and supporting the rationalisation, prioritisation and redesign of existing Cognos reports and datasets to ensure they are fit for purpose in the new cloud-based analytics environment.
This exciting role will work closely with Business Stakeholders, Data Engineering and IT to ensure migrated solutions are accurate, trusted and aligned with enterprise data architecture.
Other responsibilities will include:
Collating and understanding business analytics and reporting requirements, translating these into functional specifications and live reporting and data solutions.
Providing technical business analysis support, including process mapping and data analysis where required.
Leading or supporting the analysis, mapping and replication of existing standard and operational reports from Cognos into Power BI, validating outputs with business users to ensure consistency, accuracy and trust.
Partnering with stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve, simplify or retire legacy reports and datasets during migration, rather than performing like-for-like rebuilds where not required.
Power BI & Microsoft Fabric delivery
Designing, building and maintaining Power BI workspaces, end-to-end Power BI data models, datasets, reports and dashboards, including data modelling (relationships, star schemas), joining multiple source tables, developing DAX measures and calculated columns, and optimising model performance, security and usability.
Supporting the design and use of Microsoft Fabric components (e.g. Lakehouse, Warehouse and semantic models) in collaboration with Data Engineering, ensuring analytics models align with enterprise data architecture and best practice.
Change, adoption & stakeholder engagement
Supporting change management and user adoption during the transition to Power BI, including creating documentation, delivering training sessions and supporting users as they move away from legacy BI tools.
Acting as a Power BI subject-matter expert for the business, helping stakeholders understand new capabilities and ways of working in a cloud-based analytics environment.
Providing BI support and training to users across Hachette and selected third parties, managing key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
Acting as a liaison between business users, the BI & Data Engineering team, technology teams and third-party suppliers throughout the development lifecycle.
Data platform & operational support
Playing a key role in data migration and data analysis initiatives.
Influencing the design of MS Fabric-based solutions (e.g. OneLake Medallion structure) in line with best practice.
Monitoring data warehouse processing, data quality and performance.
Creating and maintaining documentation to support cross-team knowledge sharing, training and solution handover.
Who we are looking for
Skills/Knowledge:
Experience using Power BI reporting solutions in a business environment.
Experience designing and maintaining BI data models, using Power BI, including joining multiple tables, defining relationships and creating measures and calculations (DAX).
Working knowledge of SAP data structures or equivalent ERP systems.
Experience analysing large and complex datasets.
Understanding of modern cloud-based analytics architectures, including separation of storage, compute and semantic layers.
Ability to analyse, interpret and clearly explain data to non-technical audiences.
Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders across the business.
Excellent problem-solving, analytical and organisational skills.
Flexibility and adaptability, with the ability to work effectively in a changing environment.
Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues, customers and third-party partners.
Desirable:
Experience working in the publishing, distribution, retail or supply-chain sectors.
Experience using Cognos reporting solutions in a business environment
Experience supporting BI platform migrations or reporting transformations.
Experience with Microsoft Fabric or other cloud-based data platforms.
What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:
28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
Private medical insurance
Dental insurance
Generous pension schemes
Rent deposit loans
2 community days per year
Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
Cycle to Work scheme
Eye care vouchers
Wide-ranging training library
Development programmes (including mentoring)
Up to 70% off book purchases
A charity bookshelf
An active range of staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing, Women in Tech and religious networks
Season ticket loans
And much more!
This role can be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
Our commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.
We want everyone to have the opportunity to perform at their best during our recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, you can let us know at the ‘Reasonable Adjustments’ section of your application. We’ll make sure you’re supported throughout the process.
The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org
