Job Band
Job Requisition: 23783
Band: D
Salary range £65,000 - £75,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights
Contract type: 12 month FTC (attachment)
Location: London Broadcasting House
Advert closing date 15 June 2025
Job Purpose
This role is based in the SAP Product Team, within the Corporate Systems department, which sits in the Technology Group division. In this team there are 3 primary disciplines; project management, product management & business analysis. This team delivers technology projects, continuous improvement & technical support for a variety of systems & applications that are used by employees across the BBC group.
The role of the Senior Project Manager is to deliver SAP technology projects that will enable product & process improvement across the BBC Group
Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities
* Manage the project or workstream to deliver the agreed output, outcomes and benefits within the agreed scope, time, cost and quality constraints
* Apply oversight and evaluate, monitor and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and change requests, escalating those outside tolerance if appropriate.
* Effectively manage people (including third parties) and other resources.
* Maintain suitable project plans, and manage day-to-day progress against a detailed plan.
* Monitor project progress, regularly report on status and initiate corrective actions.
* Produce and manage day-to-day progress against a detailed plan and produce a high-level roadmap which extracts key milestones and dependencies to share with stakeholders.
* Ensure all project expenditure (or activity) is tracked and reconciled to budget/plan with forecast to complete or value returned to inform decision making.
* Ensure adherence to relevant BBC policies and standards. Including project management, health and safety, financial, legal, procurement and other compliance requirements.
Are you the right candidate?
To Be Succesful In The Role, You Will Have
* Experience of delivering at least one SAP complex technology project (e.g. multiple workstreams, third-party/supplier management, budget of >£500k)
* Experience of managing procurement and/or commercial processes as part of the end-to-end project lifecycle
* Excellent planning, organisation & communication skills
* Experience of using different delivery methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Hybrid, Agile) & an understanding of their respective benefits/risks
* Ability to work at pace & remain resilient when faced with conflicting priorities or demands
* Experience of delivering technology projects in a fast-changing, political and complicated environment
* Proficient user of Microsoft Tools - e.g., Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint etc
Desirable
* Project Management qualification or accreditation (e.g., PRINCE 2, APM, PMI)
* Experience of delivering technology projects at other public sector organisations and/or other media organisations
* Experience of delivering technology projects that have implemented SAP products
* Understands organisational transformation challenges and how to operate effectively in this context
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.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
Redeployment
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.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Project Management and Information Technology
* Industries
Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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