Business Partner, BBC News HR

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Sector: Human Resources

Role: Partner

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Package Description

Job Reference: 21829
Band: E
Salary: Up to £70,000 p.a. plus London Weighting, 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: 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. 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.

Benefits:

• 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.
• 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, gym and much more .

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Job Introduction

This Business Partner will provide strategic business management and programme oversight for the News HR function. The role requires a proactive and solution-focused approach to ensure the effective coordination of key initiatives, stakeholder engagement, and budgetary control, supporting the delivery of the News transformation agenda. The successful candidate will act as a key strategist, advisor, and coordinator, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations and the successful execution of critical HR programmes.

Main Responsibilities

Programme & Project Management

• Govern and oversee a portfolio of projects within the News HR function, ensuring strategic alignment and effective prioritisation.
• Establish robust reporting mechanisms to track progress against objectives, ensuring senior stakeholders are informed and engaged.
• Maintain a high-level view of activity schedules, avoiding over-involvement in operational details while ensuring delivery.
• Coordinate and facilitate meetings, ensuring actions and decisions are documented and progress is tracked effectively.

Business Management & Strategic Advisory

• Monitor the evolving business agenda, ensuring the HR Director is fully briefed on upcoming priorities and potential challenges.
• Take an active role in managing HR Directors business commitments, ensuring seamless coordination of workstreams and strategic initiatives.
• Ensure proactive engagement, identifying opportunities to streamline operations.

Budget Oversight & Financial Management

• Oversee a budget, ensuring it is effectively allocated and utilised to maximise impact.
• Partner with HR leadership to ensure budget alignment with the people strategy and broader News transformation goals.
• Track spending, ensuring delivery within cost margins to strengthen the case for future funding opportunities.

Stakeholder & Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships across the News HR team, Centres of Expertise, supporting functions, and central HR services.
• Source information quickly and efficiently by leveraging networks, ensuring timely responses to senior-level requests.
• Work effectively with senior stakeholders, demonstrating confidence and diplomacy when engaging with executives.

Facilitation & Communication

• Design, coordinate, and facilitate workshops, strategy sessions, and key meetings, ensuring clear objectives and structured outcomes.
• Create and deliver presentations, ensuring key messages are conveyed through visually engaging and professional decks.
• Develop high-quality business papers and executive-level reports, adapting communication styles to match senior leadership preferences.
• Draft responses on behalf of the HR Director where required, ensuring alignment with their communication style and messaging.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
Essential:

• Demonstrable experience in programme management and the governance of multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong business management experience, ideally in a strategic advisory role within a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Prior experience in working in HR prior and an understanding of the HR environment.
• Proven experience in budget management and financial oversight, ensuring cost-effective delivery of programmes.
• High-level stakeholder management skills, with a track record of working with senior executives and cross-functional teams.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, with the ability to create high-quality, visually engaging decks.
• Strong communication skills, particularly in written business papers, reports, and executive-level correspondence.
• Experience in facilitating and delivering workshops, with the ability to confidently lead discussions and presentations.
• Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, adapting to change and staying calm under pressure.
• Resilience and adaptability, with a proactive and hands-on approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to prioritise effectively, knowing when to delegate, escalate, or personally intervene.

Desirable:

• Previous experience in media or a similar high-paced, reactive industry.
• Project management qualifications (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, or equivalent).

For information on the role, please contact Paula Stringer, Head of Business & Production Management, BBC News.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

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.

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