Job Package
Job Title: Senior Technical Project Manager
Job Reference: 28244
Band: BAND D
Salary: £70,000-£80,000k depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: London, Salford, Birmingham or Cardiff. 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. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
To deliver projects in Corporate Systems within BBC Technology Group to stakeholder expectations, within the agreed brief and constraints of time, cost, scope and quality, using the most appropriate approach for the project and domain.
Role Responsibilities
Approach and planning
* Work with business or product owner and stakeholders to understand the strategic objectives and establish the project objectives and outputs or high-level benefits to be delivered.
* Establish the project’s level of complexity and agree with the owner the options and appropriate approach for delivery.
* Foster the conditions for the project team to perform and lead on a day-to-day basis to ensure clarity of scope, good estimating, solution development and manage the risks.
* Produce a project management plan to get agreement with stakeholders for the purpose, nature and scope of the project and secure the mandate to proceed with shaping the project.
* Draw on own experience and actively seek out and apply relevant lessons from other projects and share with the project team.
Delivery
* Manage and deliver the project within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints to enable delivery of the agreed outputs and/or benefits.
* Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, address issues and deliver effective communication strategies.
* Put in place handover plans and ensure business ownership is established for the ongoing ownership of outputs and/or realisation of benefits.
* Apply oversight and evaluate, monitor and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, interdependencies and changes, escalating those outside tolerance if appropriate.
* Maintain suitable plans, manage the delivery of minimum requirements and/or critical success factors and effectively manage people (including third parties) and other resources.
* Monitor progress, regularly report on status and initiate corrective actions. Ensure all expenditure (or activity) is tracked and reconciled to budget/plan with forecast to complete or value returned to inform decision making.
* Ensure adherence to BBC policies and standards for project management, health and safety, financial, legal and technology, and any other compliance requirements.
Approvals, Governance and Benefits
* Support the business (customer), deliver key project documentation and ensure change management activities are executed (e.g. relevant training) to enable business adoption of changes.
* Complete and review the benefits realisation plan and facilitate formal handover of the plan and any ongoing activities to the relevant business area.
Are you the right candidate?
* Experience of delivering SAP software projects
* Experience of delivering complex technology projects (e.g. multiple workstreams, third-party/supplier management, budget of >£500k)
* Working knowledge of the project lifecycle, products, techniques, methodologies, approaches and the understanding of how to best apply to the situation.
* Excellent and well-practiced communication (spoken, written, listening), interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to bridge specialism and business through user-friendly language.
* Ability to effectively deal with difficult stakeholders, navigate ambiguous, changeable, complex environments and achieve desired outcomes.
* Ability to work at pace & remain resilient when faced with conflicting priorities or demands
* Experience of managing procurement and/or commercial processes as part of the end-to-end project lifecycle
* Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Project and PowerPoint, and experience in manipulating data to make it meaningful for different audiences.
* Project Management qualification or accreditation (e.g., PRINCE 2, APM, PMI)
* Knowledge of the media sector.
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.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.
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.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Find out more about the BBC
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:
* Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
* Excellent career and professional development.
* Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
* A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
Candidate pack
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk
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Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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