Job Description
Job Introduction
BBC Studios is the commercial arm of the BBC. We are a global creative powerhouse for the development, production and distribution of bold, British, content. With a turnover of around £1.6 billion, we aim to bring customers and audiences across the world distinctive and high quality content covering a range of specialisms, through a unique combination of BBC editorial values, cutting edge craft, and access to diverse talent across all markets.
We are looking for a HR Specialist / Junior HR Business Partner for the Corporate Functions. This role will partner closely with the Head of HR and HRBPs for the Corporate Functions, HR centres of excellence and business leaders to deliver our people strategy.
Main Responsibilities
- Business Partnering: Effective business partnering with leaders across the Corporate functions; supporting the HRBPs to create and deliver functional people plans in line with our HR and business strategy. Develop and implement solutions to support organisational effectiveness and people experience.
- Talent: Support all talent activities within the Corporate functions; leading functional talent review processes, partnering with HR CoEs to deliver against talent acquisition and development requirements.
- Employee Relations: Execution of transformation initiatives and projects within the Corporate functions; build leadership capability and confidence in managing ER processes, and support smooth running of ER processes in partnership with BBC Employee Relations support team.
- Data & Insights: Effective use of data points to share insight with the HRBP and business leaders. Thought leadership to identify opportunity areas and to create and implement solutions to address these.
- Reward & Governance: Support annual reward cycle working closely with the HRBPs and Reward Team, own the pay governance process and support the Talent Acquisition team with the offers. Lead on international mobility cases across the Corporate functions, working with BBC Global Mobility team, the business area and HRBP.
Are you the right candidate?
- Experience of partnering with senior stakeholders, either in a generalist HR or centre of excellence capacity.
- Experience of autonomously advising on, and managing employee relations and talent processes.
- Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to build relationships with a variety of stakeholders, deploying influencing skills when necessary.
- Strong analytical skills and proven ability to diagnose opportunities and create solutions.
- Proven ability to effectively manage HR project work and to deliver through others.
- Experience of working in a commercial and matrixed environment would be beneficial.
- Experience of building commercial awareness.
- Comfortable with thinking outside of the box and challenging the status quo.
- Autonomous and proactive thinker, with the ability to operate at pace.
Job Description
Band: D
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: London - Television Centre
Working Pattern: Hybrid Working (Home-based plus two/three days a week in the office).
We are really proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and so if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please do contact us at with the job reference in the subject.
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.
BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group's science-based Net Zero targets.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from under represented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background. We strive to be the best British content company in the world, attracting the best creative talents in the business, so that we can bring premium quality award-winning programmes, content and brands to the viewer no matter where they are.
The BBC Group has set out the first in a new series of bold steps to transform our programming and better represent the public we serve. We have the biggest financial investment to on-air inclusion in the industry, together with our existing commissioning budget, we are committed to throwing open our doors more widely than ever to diverse stories and diverse storytellers. Together with a diverse workforce we will accelerate the pace of change in increasing diversity and inclusion both on and off air
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please visit our website.
