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Strategic Alignment Lead
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JOB DETAILS
Job Band: E
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Department: Media Tech
Location: Any BBC UK office (Hybrid)
Salary: £65,400 - £87,133 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Large organisations rarely struggle because they lack ideas.
They struggle because priorities compete, decisions take too long, important signals are missed, and nobody is looking across the whole system.
We're building a new function to help solve those problems.
As a Strategic Alignment Lead, you'll help BBC MediaTech turn complexity into clarity, alignment and action.
- You won't manage projects.
- You won't own delivery.
- You won't run operational services.
Instead, you'll help leaders understand what matters most, where trade-offs exist, and what action is needed next.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You’ll operate at a digital portfolio level helping shape how strategic choices are made across a complex portfolio of digital products, not just how work is delivered. As a newly established function, you’ll help define how Portfolio Alignment works in practice, not just operate within an established model. This is an opportunity to influence how work is sequenced and coordinated across a complex environment, supporting strategic decisions that help the BBC deliver for audiences now and in the future.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Create clarity on portfolio health, strategic priorities, risks and opportunities across BBC MediaTech.
- Surface emerging risks, dependencies, constraints and opportunities before they become visible through standard reporting.
- Help leaders make better, faster decisions by turning complex information into clear insight and recommendations.
- Build alignment across teams, portfolios and stakeholders with competing priorities and perspectives.
- Connect information, people and priorities from across the organisation to create a coherent view of what matters most.
- Shape how strategic decisions are informed, discussed and acted upon across MediaTech.
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Your Skills And Experience
You will thrive if:
- You are the person people turn to when something important is stuck, unclear or fragmented.
- You enjoy helping organisations make progress where the path forward isn't obvious.
- You naturally see connections, patterns and risks that others miss.
- You ask difficult questions, challenge assumptions and focus attention on what matters most.
- You enjoy influencing senior leaders and shaping decisions, even when you don't own the outcome.
- You are motivated by organisational impact rather than ownership of delivery.
Essential Criteria
- Ability to understand and navigate complex organisational systems, identifying the factors that influence outcomes beyond individual teams, projects or programmes.
- Strong judgement and the ability to identify what matters most in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
- Experience bringing together diverse information, perspectives and signals and translating them into clear recommendations, insight and action.
- Experience influencing decisions, priorities and outcomes across organisational boundaries without direct authority.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills, including the ability to align groups with competing priorities or perspectives.
- Experience supporting senior leaders through complex decisions, trade-offs or organisational change.
- Comfortable operating where ownership, priorities or ways of working are evolving, and able to create momentum despite uncertainty.
- Evidence of shaping organisational outcomes, not simply tracking, reporting or coordinating activity.
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Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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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