Head of Benefits

Package Description

Job Reference: 21536

Band: F

Contract type: Continuing

Location: UK Flexible - with travel to BBC sites as required (Home/Office - Hybrid)

Salary: £90,000 - £120,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. (London Weighting may be applicable)

The internal job title for this role will be 'Head of HR'

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.

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Job Introduction

This is an exciting opportunity to join the BBC’s Group Reward team to lead and shape the benefits agenda across the BBC, in the UK and Internationally, for BBC News, Radio, Sport, iPlayer, BBC Sounds and our commercial teams who produce and distribute some of the best content on television, audio and film. We’re looking for someone with deep expertise who will work closely with the Group Reward Director and the wider Reward team to enhance the employee experience and overall BBC proposition to ensure that our benefits and recognition offer is competitive and compelling and fit for the BBC of the future.

Main Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of the BBC’s benefits and recognition strategy applicable to 60+ global locations, reflecting local market context and our diverse employee population
• Identifying and capitalising on opportunities to enhance our benefit and recognition programmes and provision, including communications, engagement and ROI. Bringing fresh thinking and innovation from the outside.
• Leading a new team of Benefits Specialists (x2) within the Reward team. Senior member of the Reward leadership team and wider BBC HR function.
• Collaboration with colleagues in other internal teams to ensure high quality delivery of all aspects of the benefits and recognition programmes.
• Building relationships with our third party providers to create partnerships which create real value for the BBC and our employees
• Oversight of cost and budgets for benefits and recognition, creating opportunity for new initiatives and reinvestment

Are you the right Candidate?

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following key skills and experience:

• Proven experience leading the design and delivery of employee benefits and recognition programmes, in an international context and / or complex matrix organisation.
• Ability to create a compelling proposition reflecting different market needs and a diverse employee base
• Adept at managing numerous, diverse stakeholders at all levels, internally and externally
• Understanding of people experience design for processes and services
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to plan multi-channel communication campaigns working with internal communications and external partners
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data (qualitative & quantitative) and drive evidence-based decision making
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to delivery
• Agile and adaptable, with the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity
• Passionate about developing people and fostering an inclusive environment
• Collaborative mindset with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement

If you have experience leading international and UK benefits teams and delivering new and innovative benefits solutions and are excited about the prospect of leading real change at the BBC, we’d love to hear from you.

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.

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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.

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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.