HR Business Partner

Package Description

Job ref: 23796

Band: E

Contract type: 1 x Full time twelve month Fixed term contract

Location:  Flexible UK location. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office with home working. There will also be regular travel to other BBC bases.

Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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 Reasonable Adjustments.  For any general queries, please contact: BBC 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.

Job Introduction

At the BBC, one of our core values is that of Accountability, where everyone is empowered to deliver their best work. We are looking for an HRBP to work within our Corporate Functions HRBP team to support, upskill and drive and support a culture of individual and collective high performance. You’ll play a key role in shaping a culture of continuous feedback, growth, and innovation.

Main Responsibilities

Working closely with our divisional HRBP teams, this role will focus on activities and interventions including:

• Build capability in management ability to have honest conversations on matters of performance and behaviour,continuous feedback loops, goal-setting, performance expectations
• Deliver upskilling programmes & interventions for managers & teams with the purpose of creating a high performance culture
• In collaboration with divisional HRBPs, provide coaching and development for leaders to elevate their leadership capabilities and ensure alignment with company BBC values.
• Work with our Centres of Excellence in Employee Relations, Manager Helpdesk and Learning and Development to develop solutions which support leadership development
• Identify key skill gaps and work with wider HR teams to create programs that promote career growth and continuous learning.
• Work with divisional HRBPs and the business to support intervention and approaches to how we progress and develop our people
• Support the implementation of a robust talent and succession cycle
• Coach managers to be confident in building and operating in a high performance culture

Are you the right candidate?

• Experience of coaching managers through complex performance processes
• Experience of managing talent and succession cycles and interventions
• Experience of career growth pathways
• Relevant HRBP experience gained in large complex organisation(s) with multiple stakeholders (including matrix relationships). Experience from a Product or Technology organisation is preferred but not essential
• Exposure & experience of talent management, leadership development, and culture-building initiatives.
• Experience in supporting and coaching managers through complex performance cases
• Proven ability to challenge, influence, and support senior leaders
• Strong change management capabilities and stakeholder management skills
• Data-savvy, comfortable with numbers, and able to use insights to guide decision making
• A clear communicator who builds relationships effortlessly and knows how to get people working together.
• Flexible and adaptable, thriving in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Outcome focused with a growth mindset and a bias for change
• Experience with workforce planning preferred but not  essential

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.

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

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.