HR Business Partner,Scripted Productions

Purpose of the Role

We're seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to be a key player in driving people initiatives that promote the commerciality, capability and culture within BBC Studios Scripted. You will partner with senior leaders to drive people strategies, translating strategic priorities into meaningful action, and help build a high performing, inclusive and future focused organisation.

Key Responsibilities

As a trusted partner to senior leaders, you'll:

• Partner with leaders across multiple functions and productions to deliver people plans that support organisational priorities and business performance.
• Work closely with the Head of HR to shape and implement people strategies that enable growth, transformation and creative excellence.
• Be accountable for the delivery of culture and engagement initiatives that reinforce the behaviours and expectations set out in The Pledge, promoting respectful, inclusive and high performing teams.
• Support leaders to plan workforce requirements across multiple titles, forecasting demand for freelancers, fixed term employees and specialist creative talent.
• Provide high quality coaching, challenge and guidance to leaders, using data, insight and expertise to support decision making.
• Design and deliver practical, commercially minded people solutions that enable teams to perform at their best.
• Lead and contribute to organisational change, transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

Essential Criteria:

• Significant experience leading organisational and cultural change across talent, capability, performance and organisational effectiveness, with the ability to translate strategy into delivery in a fast paced environment.
• Able to build trust while confidently leading challenging conversations, providing constructive challenge and helping leaders address difficult people issues with empathy and clarity.
• Strong coaching and influencing skills, with experience partnering senior leaders to develop talent and improve performance.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, using sound judgement to navigate situations where there isn't always a clear cut answer and balancing the needs of the business, individuals and wider organisational priorities.
• Experience using data, insight and evidence to shape effective people solutions.
• Confidence working within complex stakeholder environments, including experience of union engagement.

Desired but Not Required:

• Previous HR Business Partner experience within television, media, broadcasting or another creative industry.
• Experience supporting environments with a significant freelance, contingent or project based workforce.
• Exposure to scripted production environments or creative businesses operating across multiple projects simultaneously.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. Thank you for your understanding.