PowerBI Developer (12 month FTC)

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 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.

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…