Senior Delivery Manager - BBC Studios Senior Delivery Manager - BBC Studios

BBC Studios now have an exciting vacancy for a Senior Delivery Manager within our award winning International News division.

This opportunity has been created to support the delivery of BBC Studios' Data Strategy through the application and use of our new Modern Data Stack. As a Senior Delivery Manager you'll play a key role in delivering Data projects, working collaboratively with Product, Engineering, Data Science and lines of business to ensure the smooth delivery of projects which support BBC Studios' growth initiatives and are of key importance to the business.

This role is part of the overall data programme that touches all of BBC Studios' major and emerging lines of revenue, including content production and distribution, advertising, and direct-to-consumer. Your role will sit within our Consumer Growth and Monetisation team, reporting to the VP Measurement and Analytics. This is a full-time hybrid working position based in London

Responsibilities:

• You'll work primarily within the Consumer Growth and Monetisation team in an agile fashion, but you will need to liaise pan-BBC with: Product, Engineers, and Business Stakeholders establishing relationships and effective cross team collaboration and becoming a trusted partner to subject matter experts.


• You'll need to: plan, communicate and visualise process, understanding dependencies and roadmaps and identify, track and manage progress, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, interdependencies and changes of projects.


• You'll need to lead and or facilitate sprint planning, sprints, and retrospectives.


• Work with data analysts and stakeholders to establish scope, critical success factors, deliverables, outcomes and benefits; ensure understanding of the impact of any trade-offs and decisions by relevant stakeholders.


• Manage and deliver the projects within the agreed work packages, time, cost and quality constraints to enable delivery of the agreed outputs and/or benefits.
  
  You'll have demonstrable experience delivering Data or software projects in an agile fashion and bring a problem-solving mindset and adaptive approach.


• Evidence of substantial period(s) of managing projects to successful outcomes, directing teams, planning, problem solving, progress monitoring, managing risk, and budget or resource responsibility.


• Working knowledge of the agile project lifecycle, products, techniques, methodologies, approaches and the understanding of how to best apply to the situation.


• Understanding and experience of agile and lean methodologies.


• Have experience delivering data or software products and services.


• Have experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams and be able to influence, bridge specialisms and navigate ambiguity.


• Understanding of data, related technologies and their importance to content, advertising and direct-to-consumer businesses.


• Stakeholder management and communications skills, Proactive in building relationships with adjacent domains. Ability to effectively deal with difficult stakeholders, navigate ambiguous, changeable, complex environments and achieve desired outcomes.


• Guiding project team members including the design, development, testing, project assistants and other staff as assigned and indirectly business resources supporting the project.


• Excellent and well-practiced communication (spoken, written, listening), interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to bridge specialism and business through user-friendly language.


• Demonstrable professional development with a recognised project management qualification or equivalent experience.


• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Project and PowerPoint, and experience in manipulating data to make it meaningful for different audiences.


Desirable

• Managed a minimum of four data or software projects with budgets of £10k-£2m or significant business area impact.


• Excels at delivery in a fast-changing, political and complicated environment; understands organisational transformation challenges and how to operate effectively in this context.


• Knowledge of the media sector and broad understanding of traditional and new technologies in a broadcast and or digital media environment.
  
  BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.


We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III.

The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.

From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content.

We offer flexibility, competitive benefits and the opportunity to be part of the BBC's exciting mission. Some of the key benefits you'll get from working in this role are:
Flexible/Agile working - opportunities across the business. We believe in empowering you to do your best work, so we offer support and flexibility to balance work and home. We're happy to discuss a formal flexible working pattern. 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 the offer stage.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities - we operate a people-first culture and pride ourselves on your development. Our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certifications.
Excellent career progression - BBC Studios offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Leaders at the BBC are passionate about helping our people grow in the organisation and you will have regular sessions with your line manager to support you with your career ambitions.
Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (plus an additional day 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.