Head of Recruitment Delivery

The Bbc; Eccles; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC is seeking a strategic leader to head Recruitment delivery, shaping how the organisation attracts and hires talent at scale. You will lead a large, multi-layered team, partner with senior stakeholders, and drive data–led decision making to improve outcomes across the workforce plan.

You will work with Enablement, Employer Brand, and specialist teams to maximise technology and talent intelligence capabilities, delivering exceptional candidate experience and service excellence.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading large scale recruitment delivery within complex organisations.
• Proven track record delivering high volume and/or specialist hiring at scale.
• Ability to translate workforce plans into effective hiring strategies and delivery plans.
• Strong leadership across multi-layered teams with development of leaders.
• Data-led decision making to improve diversity, quality and efficiency outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead Recruitment delivery across the BBC, ensuring diverse, high quality talent is hired efficiently and effectively to meet business priorities and workforce plans
• Inspire and develop a large, multi-layered recruitment team, creating a high performance culture focused on service excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Drive operational excellence at scale, embedding consistent recruitment processes, leveraging data and insights, and improving hiring outcomes, candidate experience, and delivery performance
• Partner with senior leaders and Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partners to translate workforce strategies into executable hiring plans, providing insight, challenge, and solutions to complex recruitment needs
• Shape the future of Talent Acquisition at the BBC by working closely with Enablement, Employer Brand, and specialist teams to maximise the impact of technology, assessment, attraction, and talent intelligence capabilities.

Skills

People leadership

Recruitment delivery

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Strategic planning

Job description

TEAM

This is a unique opportunity to lead Recruitment delivery at the heart of the BBC, influencing how one of the world's most trusted and creative organisations attracts and hires talent. You'll join a collaborative senior leadership team committed to innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement, while leading a high performing function with significant scale and impact. The role offers the chance to shape strategy through delivery, develop exceptional teams, and leave a lasting legacy across the organisation.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Lead Recruitment delivery across the BBC, ensuring diverse, high quality talent is hired efficiently and effectively to meet business priorities and workforce plans
• Inspire and develop a large, multi-layered recruitment team, creating a high performance culture focused on service excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Drive operational excellence at scale, embedding consistent recruitment processes, leveraging data and insights, and improving hiring outcomes, candidate experience, and delivery performance
• Partner with senior leaders and Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partners to translate workforce strategies into executable hiring plans, providing insight, challenge, and solutions to complex recruitment needs
• Shape the future of Talent Acquisition at the BBC by working closely with Enablement, Employer Brand, and specialist teams to maximise the impact of technology, assessment, attraction, and talent intelligence capabilities.

Essential Criteria

• Significant experience leading large scale Recruitment delivery functions within complex, matrixed organisations, with accountability for end to end recruitment outcomes
• Proven track record of delivering high volume and/or specialist hiring at scale, using data and performance metrics to drive measurable business results
• Strong leadership experience managing large, multi layered teams, with the ability to build high performing cultures and develop leaders through others
• Demonstrated ability to translate workforce plans and business priorities into effective hiring strategies and delivery plans, influencing senior stakeholders in complex environments
• Strong operational excellence mindset, with experience embedding consistent recruitment processes, driving continuous improvement, and improving diversity, quality, and efficiency outcomes through data led decision making

Desirable Experience

• Working within a large, complex, public sector, regulated, or highly matrixed organisation
• Experience partnering with Employer Brand, Talent Intelligence, or Recruitment Marketing teams to align attraction strategies with hiring delivery objectives

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