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Sector: Project and Program Management
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Package Description
Job Reference: 22309
Band: E
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Attachment until March 2026
Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
* Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
* Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
* Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a centralised project team operating at the heart of all complex transformation projects across the whole of the News division. The focus of this role is to lead a specific programme workstream within the News International Operating Model (IOM) initiative.
Main Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Lead Project Manager to lead a significant body of work within the International Operating Model programme. Reporting to the Programme Manager, the ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, strategic planning capabilities and a proven track record of successful project delivery. This role requires a proactive approach, and expertise in complex stakeholder management and communication. They will be responsible for managing the project lifecycle, and utilising advanced project management tools and methodologies to achieve successful outcomes.
The successful candidate will have experience in leading multiple workstreams, managing conflicting priorities and navigating project dependencies.
Are you the right candidate?
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager and leader of significant business change to help lead business activity as part of a centralised project team. You will have demonstrable experience of leading, managing and successfully delivering large and complex business projects within a matrix structure, able to adapt and manage to tight deadlines and will be comfortable working independently. Transformation experience is essential.
You will be working collaboratively with senior leaders to keep divisional plans on track and identify and develop solutions to obstacles, so that matters are dealt with in an efficient and timely way.
A highly organised individual with a formal project management qualification along with experience of providing professional project leadership using formal methodology, you will be a self-starter with the ability to respond quickly to high-priority deadlines and easily adapt to change to achieve goals.
As a strong and proactive problem solver, you'll be able to offer the right balance of creativity and pragmatism, with the confidence and resilience to challenge assumption and negotiate with senior management to achieve business goals. As an effective, articulate communicator with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, you'll possess demonstrable experience of influencing senior decision makers and the ability to build and maintain effective and trusted relationships at all levels.
The successful candidate can demonstrate the BBC's values in their approach, with a focus on a collaborative and inclusive approach to their work with teams and stakeholders across BBC News.
We are seeking candidates who have:
* A proven track record of project delivery in a transformation project
* Aptitude for identifying issues and implementing effective solutions
* Expertise in prioritising tasks and managing deadlines
* Experience of stakeholder management
* Ability to be flexible to adjust plans and strategies in response to changing circumstances
* Skill in conflict resolution
* Substantial experience on providing good practice advice to business change
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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