BBC Hiring for Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner – Nations Job at Glasgow, Scotland Full Time

Do you want to have a significant impact in the transformation of talent acquisition at one of the world’s highest-profile media organisations?

The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster. We’re impartial and independent, and every day we create distinctive, world-class programmes and content which inform, educate, and entertain millions of people around the world. Our 22,000 employees are driven by our five inspiring public purposes and you’ll need to be deeply inspired and motivated by them too.

What’s In It For You?

You will develop and drive the Talent acquisition strategy for BBC Nations to deliver world-class and diverse employees with the right capability in the right jobs at the right time. You will be a trusted voice and a strategic partner helping to deliver expert advice and guidance to senior leaders and managers across a variety of recruitment topics. You will be a recognised source of truth on external trends and hiring dynamics specific to the business area(s) – these are primarily local radio, news and TV programming across the UK for one of the BBCs biggest divisions.

Main Responsibilities

The Broad Remit

The role will be responsible for influencing and shaping Talent Acquisition across BBC Nations and will be a crucial voice and subject matter expert on a variety of complex hiring topics. The role will own the relationship with senior leaders and is accountable for the approach to and delivery of Talent Acquisition for their client group. Reporting to the Head of Talent Acquisition and sitting on the TA leadership team, you will work with likeminded leaders and the wider TA/HR team to ensure BBC-wide opportunities are realized and value is created.

You will influence the transformation and future direction of talent acquisition at the BBC and play a critical role in ensuring the BBC has even greater impact across the UK. We are on a journey of organisational and TA transformation that will unlock and increase the potential of all our existing and future employees to deliver value for all audiences We need world-class TA talent to join and help us deliver this aspiration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively partnering and stakeholder managing across the organsiation to ensure a connected approach
• Ongoing review of the Talent Acquisition strategy and approach for the business area.
• Build trusted relationships with and act as the specialist point of contact for the business area on Talent Acquisition, offering guidance, advice and support.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition delivery teams to ensure the business area’s resourcing needs and well planned for and effectively delivered.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders, senior managers and hiring managers to educate and upskill them on their own accountabilities in the workforce planning, attraction and hiring process including working with new technologies.
• Provide in-depth forecasting of future capability requirements and demand for the Talent Acquisition delivery teams to support continuous improvement.
• Be ready to deputise for the Head of Talent Acquisition as required and supporting them with the development and succession planning for the wider Talent Acquisition network.
• Work with the wider TA team to position the BBC as an employer of choice in the external market, also supporting the development and promotion of talent already in the organisation.
• Collaborate across other HR Specialist Teams to deliver services and promote a culture of process ownership and continuous improvement.

Are you the right candidate?

We are looking for someone who is on the pulse of talent acquisition trends, technology and best practice. We need someone to proactively encourage knowledge and idea sharing and to help inspire hiring managers to adopt new tactics and ways of working to futureproof BBC Nations. You will be comfortable in a transformation environment and able to advise other business areas of our new TA model and its benefits. You will also have the ability to build strong, trusted and inclusive relationships across the business. Below are some of the key experiences that will set you up for success;

• Direct experience of successfully designing and shaping end to end high impact Talent Acquisition strategies.
• Complex Change Management experience.
• Able to energise and inspire, without direct authority, a Talent Acquisition network of colleagues managing multiple priorities.
• Embraces and advocates diversity and inclusion in culture and business needs.
• Manage multiple priorities and approaches barriers from a problem-solving standpoint with the goal of creating “win-win” outcomes
• Commercial acumen and translates data and insight into tangible improvement opportunities.
• knowledge of current thinking in Human Resource and Talent Acquisition issues and trends and relevant jurisdictional employment law, regulations and policy affecting Talent Acquisition.
• Knowledge of HRIS, Talent Management, CRM and Applicant Tracking Systems.

If you want to play a critical part in reshaping recruitment at the BBC, and your track record expertise are aligned, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you!

For more information or to schedule an initial informal conversation, please contact Emma Connell via: [email protected]

About the BBC

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.

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

Package Description

Band: F
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Various

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.