Lead Technical Project Manager 3rd Party in Glasgow

Lead Technical Project Manager 3rd Party

Job Requisition ID: 51756 Job Closing Date: 04/09/2026 Glasgow, GBR, G511DA
| London, GBR, W1A 1AA
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN
| Salford, MAN, GBR, M50 2QH

JOB DETAILS

Job band: E
Contract type: Permanent, full time
Department: Product Operations, Media Tech
Location: Hybrid - any major UK BBC office
Salary: £75,000 - £85,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Product Operations plays a vital role in helping the BBC deliver brilliant digital and technology experiences for audiences and colleagues. As a Lead Technical Project Manager, you’ll lead the delivery of technical programmes, portfolios or workstreams that support change across the BBC. You’ll bring teams together, manage delivery with confidence and clarity, and make sure outcomes are achieved to time, cost and quality expectations

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This is an opportunity to work at the heart of the BBC’s digital and technology delivery. You’ll collaborate with teams across the BBC Group, Public Service and external partners, helping shape how complex work is planned, governed and delivered. You’ll join a team that values openness, collaboration and continuous improvement, with the chance to make a meaningful impact on services used by millions.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Manage complex large-scale technology projects, programmes or a portfolio of projects with multiple senior stakeholders with budgets up to £10 million delivered by a combination of internal and supplier teams
• Deliver outputs, outcomes and benefits within agreed time, cost and quality constraints
• Apply the most appropriate project delivery methodology
• Establish appropriate project governance with senior stakeholders
• Maintain delivery momentum and proactively manage issues, risks and dependencies
• Ensure a clear delivery plan with deliverables defined against articulated outcomes
• Ensure plans are visible and understood by project teams, suppliers and stakeholders
• Create a collaborative team environment with open communication and continuous improvement
• Work with stakeholders, procurement and Engagement team to run competitive procurement processes including the creation of procurement documentation.i.e, RFPs, Supplier Briefs, Work Orders
• Ensure suppliers meet contractually agreed delivery milestones
• Liaise with the 3rd Party Engagement team to align on governance, frameworks and escalation pathways for supplier management

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Proven team leadership experience
• Experience and proven leadership of delivering technical projects, portfolios or workstreams in an agile product-led organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, influence effectively and build trusted relationships.
• Confident planning and managing delivery, including reporting, governance, project controls and management information.
• Experience of managing risks, issues, dependencies and competing priorities in complex or time-sensitive environments.
• A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to bring people together and create momentum through clarity, openness and shared purpose
• Experience of managing competitive procurement processes
• Management of supplier relationships.

DESIRABLE

• Experience working in product, technology, digital, media or broadcast environments.
• Familiarity with different project delivery approaches, with the judgement to apply the right method for the work.
• Experience of portfolio and capacity management
• Programme management qualification such as MSP

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

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 pensionscheme 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 or on an orchestra conditions contract.

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.

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