Senior Strategy Manager Senior Strategy Manager
BBC Studios Distribution Limited, Can be based anywhere
Senior Strategy Manager Senior Strategy Manager
£70000
BBC Studios Distribution Limited, Can be based anywhere
- Full time
- Temporary
- Remote working
Posted 3 days ago, 11 Jan | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 8910835f0d254355ae009595e5bddc05
Full Job Description
Senior Strategy Managers at the BBC can be expected to:
- Be accountable for the performance and delivery of specific project work, with autonomy to deliver the work with minimum supervision and when required with the support from Strategy Managers, Analysts and others.
- Facilitate or manage ad-hoc project teams of senior stakeholders, ensuring that such teams consider strategic issues.
- Influence strategic and policy decision making at a senior level including as appropriate the development of new services.
- Provide in-depth research and analysis, from internal and external sources where appropriate, of financial, output, audience, scheduling, competitor, regulatory and operational considerations. Use qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques.
- Keep up to date with developments in broadcast media and related sectors. Develop strategies capable of managing the threats and opportunities that such developments represent.
- Present the analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders, verbally or in writing, as required. To ensure that such presentations are effective and persuasive through the use of a variety of techniques, for example, by busing computer graphics to represent the findings of research.
- Provide strategic support to senior management of sufficient sophistication to enable the BBC to maximise value for money for the benefit of the licence fee payer.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues within the Division and across pan-BBC teams, building effective working relationships to produce joint recommendations with colleagues on policies, strategic issues and new initiatives.
You will have a good understanding of the streaming and digital media industries, and sensitivity to the aims of the BBC and its unique obligations as a public service broadcaster. With substantial and proven experience of strategy development within a large organisation or consultancy environment, including leading and delivering major strategy projects, you will be able to: - advise senior leaders on strategic issues and liaise with a wide range of senior stakeholders, building confidence and influencing decision-making;
- identify potential strategic opportunities or challenges;
- anticipate the challenges and opportunities that arise from consumer, market and technology changes and translate these into coherent strategy; and
- display political instincts, insights and judgement. You will have substantial experience of data analysis including performance, financial and statistical data, with a good knowledge of relevant tools and methodologies; sound computer aptitude, particularly with spreadsheet packages and presentation packages; and strong report writing and editing skills. Able to write structured, insight driven and persuasive documents.
- 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.
The BBC is recruiting for two Senior Strategy Managers to join the BBC's Group Strategy & Performance division, one on a permanent contract and one for a 12-month fixed term. The roles will sit in the Business Strategy team. These are hybrid working roles, the post holders will be required to come into the London office for three days per week. About the BBC's Strategy & Performance division The BBC's Strategy & Performance team helps the BBC define its future and develop a plan for getting there. It acts as an independent advisor to the leadership of the BBC, enabling senior leaders to develop creative and practical ideas for how the BBC and its services should evolve. The team is made up of managers, senior managers, heads and directors, with the Group Director sitting on the BBC's Executive Committee. In spring 2025 the team will be merging with the BBC's Transformation Office, to form a new division led by a Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer. The Strategy & Performance team sits at the heart of decision-making which influences the BBC's long-term future. We are a creative, innovative team drawing on data, insight and information to help advise BBC leadership on how the BBC's content and services should evolve. We help the organisation to evaluate trade-offs and choices where the answer isn't highly obvious., 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.
Contract type: 1 x Permanent role and 1 x Twelve month fixed-term contract (these are staff roles not contractor engagements) Location: Office base is London. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working Salary: £60,000 to £70,000pa plus London Weighting (£5,319pa), 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.