Portfolio Partner

Job Introduction

BBC Product Management Function is looking to appoint a Portfolio Partner to work closely with our Director, Product & Design and their leadership team. This role will have the unique experience of working alongside a dynamic Product Leadership Team and have exposure to the BBC’s Product strategy

Main Responsibilities

This role includes driving cross-functional initiatives around transformational change, communication and events, culture and coordination as the group scales.

Your key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Supporting the Director of Product & Design and leading projects on their behalf to ensure timely execution of actions and changes.
• Managing strategic outputs, including executive and board updates.
• Overseeing product organisation reporting cadences WBR (Weekly Business Reporting), MBR & QBR).
• Project managing the annual product roadmap planning.
• Acting as a liaison between the Product leadership Team and various functions (HR, Finance, Product Ops. etc).
• Establishing clear internal and external communication and updates for the Product Group.
• Leading cultural activities and building relationships within the Product Leadership and Transformation teams.
• Liaising with Finance regarding group planning, budgets and processes.

Are You The Right Candidate?

The ideal candidate will evidence the following skills and experience:

• Experience working closely with or within the Product environment, with a strong understanding of the product lifecycle and Agile methodologies.
• Proven experience delivering high-quality, strategic outputs to CEO and board-level audiences.
• Proven experience in sophisticated stakeholder relationship management at various levels, including senior management.
• Demonstrated strong leadership within matrix relationships.
• Strong strategic planning and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to organise, manage and direct large teams across multiple departments.
• Proficient in analysing and compiling large data sets to draw conclusive results.
• Capability to motivate and coordinate multi-disciplinary project teams effectively.

Package Information

Band: F

Contract Type: Permanent

Location:  London/ Hybrid

Career Path Framework (CPF) job ranges: up to £107,733 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.  The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights

About the BBC

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 pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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 below document: https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our\_BBC\_Values.pdf

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 visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/