Senior Business Analyst Project Manager Broadcast and IT

Project overview

Within the Product and Technologies Directorate of a major national audiovisual group, the Manufacturing Engineering department is managing a vast program to renew the control rooms at its headquarters.

The project aims to implement an operational hub for the production of national news programs, particularly daily television news and information programs.

The program operates within a complex technological environment including:

The project involves numerous stakeholders: internal teams, the news department, production teams, integrators, engineering teams, support functions, and end-users.

The go-live of the new solution is planned for 2028.

Mission Objective

The Senior Business Analyst Project Manager ensures the operational coordination and functional management of the control room modernization program.

They ensure a clear understanding of business needs, the consistency of proposed solutions, stakeholder coordination, and adherence to project commitments.

They work in close collaboration with:

Main Missions

Project Management and Coordination

Business Needs Management and User Support

Governance and Committee Management

Risks, Quality, and Progress Monitoring

Testing and Go-Live

Expected Deliverables

The Business Analyst Project Manager will notably produce or maintain the following deliverables:

• Broadcast audiovisual infrastructure.
• IP architectures based on the SMPTE ST 2110 standard.
• Data center hosted infrastructure.
• Information system virtualization.
• Production automation systems.
• An NRCS editorial system integrated into the production chain.
• Control room equipment such as video switchers, audio consoles, broadcast controllers, and production automation systems.
• The client's project coordinator.
• The integrating partner.
• Engineering and support teams.
• Editorial teams.
• Audiovisual production teams.
• End-users.
• The PMO and technical and business contributors.
• Coordinate the activities of the various program stakeholders.
• Organize the workflow between business teams, technical teams, and the integrator.
• Ensure smooth communication and information flow.
• Manage and challenge the services provided by the integrator.
• Verify the consistency of functional and technical choices with expressed needs.
• Track actions, decisions, and commitments made in meetings.
• Contribute to schedule monitoring in coordination with the project coordinator, PMO, and integrator.
• Identify blocking points and propose appropriate action plans.
• Ensure continuous monitoring of ongoing activities.
• Gather and formalize the needs of editorial, news, and production teams.
• Organize workshops with users and stakeholders.
• Collect needs related to audiovisual production workflows.
• Support users in expressing, clarifying, and prioritizing their needs.
• Verify that business needs are adequately addressed in the proposed solutions.
• Organize and leverage feedback.
• Contribute to change management activities.
• Support users in adopting new processes and tools.
• Maintain regular dialogue with operational teams.
• Establish and maintain project governance.
• Organize various monitoring bodies.
• Prepare and lead project meetings and operational steering committees.
• Prepare meeting materials and decision-making aids.
• Write meeting minutes.
• Ensure follow-up of decisions and associated actions.
• Produce reporting tailored to different governance levels.
• Prepare summaries for management and project committees.
• Identify functional, technical, organizational, and operational risks.
• Assess the impact and criticality levels of risks.
• Formulate recommendations and propose mitigation solutions.
• Monitor project deadlines, dependencies, and constraints.
• Alert stakeholders in case of deviations or difficulties.
• Contribute to ensuring the quality of deliverables.
• Ensure consistency of information communicated to different teams.
• Track the progress of actions and ensure their closure.
• Participate in defining the testing strategy.
• Manage technical and functional testing.
• Coordinate stakeholders involved in testing and validation phases.
• Track the qualification of anomalies and reservations.
• Verify the conformity of delivered solutions with expressed needs.
• Contribute to go-live preparation.
• Participate in validating support and operational continuity arrangements.
• Support teams in preparing for the launch of the new solution.
• Project scoping documents.
• Consultation and decision-making support documents.
• Presentation and reporting materials.
• Project schedule and milestone tracking.
• Action plan and decision tracking table.
• Meeting and committee minutes.
• Risk register and mitigation plans.
• Project, functional, technical, and support documentation.
• Workshop materials and minutes.
• Expression and formalization of business needs.
• Description of production workflows.
• Change management related documents.
• Testing strategy and schedule.
• Functional and technical testing specifications or scenarios.
• Tracking of anomalies, reservations, and testing decisions.
• Feedback summaries.
• Progress reporting for project bodies and management.
• Go-live preparation documentation.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Paris, France, FR
• Rate: 84-84 EUR/h
• Languages: French