Business Advisor

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Advisor to join the BMA team and support the Engineering function within Product Group., The Business Management and Administration team works in partnership with all professional services and corporate functions accountable to the BBC Chief Operating Officer (including Product, Technology, HR, Finance, Legal, and Commercial). The Business Advisor role will be embedded within Product Group, working to the BMA Business Partner for Product Group., The main duties of the role are :
( First point of contact for two or more business areas, supporting the respective leadership teams, providing business advice and support.
( Attend and support SLT meetings, cascade information where appropriate and work in close partnership with Finance and HR colleagues.
( Responsible for producing, collating and providing insightful and timely information in response to business requirements, including resource planning.
( Consistently oversees and monitors varied corporate compliance requirements across multiple areas.
( Responsible for the task management of Adhoc projects and initiatives from time to time
( Being an integral part of the BM&A team as a whole and with the business aligned team, working together to ensure the aligned and shared model is implemented and embedded.
( Critical member of a wider cohort of Business Advisors who work closely in collaboration to ensure consistency of approach and uniform procedural development and change across departments.
( Understand and utilise the BM&A Support Hub
( Collaborating and driving consistency across BMA

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

Essential
( Ability to build & maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of senior stakeholders, managing multiple priorities and requirements, with a clear connection and involvement in Senior Leadership processes and functions for their business areas.
( Being a proactive member of a team, working together and supporting each other to provide professional and consistent Business support
( Proactive and autonomous decision maker, takes responsibility and ownership for outcomes. Ability to work with limited supervision, using own initiative to resolve problems
( Forward planning and responsive to business demands. Actively look for, suggest and implement continuous improvements for the business. Supporting the implementation of new processes, tech and approaches as required, within team and across the business as necessary.
( Effective communication and influencing skills both orally and in writing and ability to target content for the audience. Ability to deliver difficult messages and insights.

Job Impact

Decision making Responsible for organising and developing a group of related operations. Contributes to the formulation of local policy. Decisions or actions have a continuing impact on the effectiveness of own team/department's work and also impacts the effectiveness of other areas. Applies specialist knowledge in a broad range of business support and administrative activities, having extensive responsibility and accountability across a range of key activities, ensuring the smooth running of business unit/department. Scope Financial. Role/team dependent Employees. Role/team dependent Other. Role/team dependent

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.

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

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.

Product Group is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the BBC's diverse and unparalleled portfolio of digital products - including iPlayer, Sounds, Bitesize, and the BBC News and BBC Sport apps and website. Product Group is an agile organisation, where individuals from different disciplines work together in multifunctional teams to build the products and the capabilities which support them. It comprises more than 1,000 people, located across the UK.

Package Description

Band: D
Location: 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Contract: Can be based in any of the main hubs - London, Salford, Cardiff or Glasgow. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
Salary: £38,100-£44,400 (plus London Weighting (£5,319pa) if London based), 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. 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.

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.
Benefits - 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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected]. For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].

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.

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.

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.