Programme Manager (Data)

JOB BAND: F
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Product Operations
LOCATION: Flexible (London / Salford / Glasgow / Cardiff / Newcastle) with hybrid working
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £95,000 - £125,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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

Data lies at the heart of the BBC's evolution, enabling us to better understand and respond to changing audience expectations, market dynamics and strategic priorities. As Lead Programme Manager, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of the BBC's data transformation agenda, ensuring that data, insight and evidence-based decision making become embedded across the organisation.

Working closely with senior leaders across Product, Technology and Business teams, you will oversee both the cultural and technological elements of the transformation, driving organisational adoption, capability development and sustainable change. Success in this role will be measured not only by programme delivery, but by the extent to which data driven thinking, behaviours and ways of working are embedded across the BBC.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

With a pan organisational scope, and occupying a crucial position between the cultural and technical demands of unlocking data value, this is a rare opportunity to make a lasting and far reaching impact at a crucial time, and within a crucial domain, in the BBC's digital evolution.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You will oversee a comprehensive programme of data transformation work, ensuring best practices are followed and that changes and benefits are effectively defined, delivered, and measured. Selected responsibilities will include:

Strategic Leadership

• Partner with Executive Sponsors and senior stakeholders to define, shape and communicate the vision, objectives, scope, outcomes and success measures.
• Lead the delivery of our data programmes, ensuring a clear focus on achieving measurable business outcomes and strategic impact.
• Champion the role of data in decision making across the organisation, building alignment and fostering a culture of evidence based thinking.

Organisational Change, Adoption and Capability

• Ensure organisational impacts are identified, understood and effectively managed.
• Work with business leaders and partners to identify capability gaps, supporting the development of data literacy and data fluency.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across business, product, technology and operational teams to secure engagement and buy in.
• Establish and maintain the programme structure, governance framework and delivery approach.
• Provide effective leadership and oversight across the programme portfolio, ensuring robust governance, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution and transparent reporting.
• Lead programme planning and execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring effective prioritisation, resource allocation and delivery.

Stakeholder Management and Governance

• Partner with senior leaders across the BBC to align priorities, manage dependencies and maintain momentum across the programme.
• Ensure effective engagement with governance forums, audit activities and assurance processes.

Compliance and Standards

• Ensure activities comply with BBC governance, financial, procurement, legal, regulatory and health and safety requirements, maintaining appropriate controls throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Lead and develop team of Lead Project Managers and Senior Project Managers by providing coaching, mentorship, and support.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Experience of high profile programme delivery in a fast changing, complex technology environment.
• Experience of data programme delivery, with sufficient technical data fluency to translate data vision into measurable goals and roadmaps and narrate these to different stakeholder groups.
• Experience of leading and measuring the cultural elements of programme delivery, e.g. around adoption and education.
• Experience of establishing stakeholder relationships and credibility at all levels of the organisation and across a variety of business areas, including technical and non technical colleagues.
• Experience of leading high performing delivery teams.
• Experience of complex programme logistics, including budgetary and commercial management, risk management, and planning, reporting and road mapping.

Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisation's interest, goals and values first, ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity, adapts quickly, and simplifies complexity. They balance short term actions with long term impact, take full accountability for actions and decision making, and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future.

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

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.

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.

BENEFITS

• 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.

EEO STATEMENT

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio economic background, religion and/or belief.

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:

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