Senior Skills & Capability Partner, Product & Proposition

BBC; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC is recruiting a Senior Skills & Capability Partner, Product & Proposition to shape a modern learning and capability landscape across multiple UK locations with a hybrid work model.

The role leads an enterprise portfolio of learning products, delivering data-driven design and behavioural change at scale. It requires strategic product thinking, governance, and strong stakeholder leadership in a complex environment.

Qualifications

• Leadership of enterprise learning or capability portfolios
• Deep expertise in learning design and behavioural change
• Experience shaping product landscapes for learning and capability

Responsibilities

• Lead an enterprise portfolio of products and experiences to build critical skills
• Provide strategic direction for a cohesive skills proposition
• Ensure governance and lifecycle management of products
• Create standards and principles for the proposition across learning science and design
• Shape use of technology, measure value, and drive collaboration and high performance

Skills

Leadership

Learning design

Product thinking

Stakeholder management

Trends in skills

Job description

Job Details

JOB BAND: F

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: Academy

LOCATION: London, Salford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow or Edinburgh - Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £120,000 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

The Senior Skills & Capability Partner, Product & Proposition plays a critical leadership role in creating and sustaining a modern, coherent skills and capability proposition for the organisation. This role is accountable for shaping the end-to-end learning and capability product landscape, ensuring it is relevant, high-quality, data-led and designed to build skill, capability and cultural change in the flow of work. It combines deep expertise in learning design, behavioural change and product thinking with strong enterprise leadership. It focuses on building scalable, adaptable learning products and experiences that meet diverse needs, while ensuring the overall proposition is strategically aligned, actively managed and continuously evolved.

Why Join the Team

The Skills & Capability team is helping to shape the future of our organisation and the wider industry. With an ambitious transformation agenda and a commitment to modern, innovative ways of building skills and supporting learning, we're looking for people who are curious, collaborative and driven by results. If you're excited by change, motivated by making a meaningful impact and keen to help build capability at scale, this is a great time to join us.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Lead an enterprise portfolio of products and experiences that build critical skills and capabilities aligned to organisational strategy, performance priorities and future needs.
• Provide thought leadership and strategic direction for a Skills & Capability proposition that blends formal and in-the-moment learning, accelerates skill building and drives meaningful behavioural and cultural change.
• Ensure the proposition is cohesive, well-governed and actively managed, with clear processes to build, maintain, refresh, retire and replace products as needs evolve.
• Create common standards, design principles and ways of working, continuously evolving the proposition through learning science, behavioural economics, digital learning and organisational change.
• Shape the use of technology, establish measures of value and impact, facilitat e communities of expertise and provide leadership that drives accountability, collaboration and high performance.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Product and proposition leadership – able to design, manage and evolve complex learning and capability portfolios with clarity and discipline
• Learning and behavioural design expertise – deep understanding of how people learn, change behaviour and build skill over time
• Designing and leading enterprise learning or capability propositions, platforms or product portfolios
• Working across complex stakeholder environments to align diverse needs
• Awareness of emerging trends in skills, learning and workforce capability

Desired But Not Required

• Experience designing and leading enterprise learning or capability propositions, platforms or product portfolios within complex stakeholder environments.
• Experience embedding learning, skill development, behavioural change and culture change into everyday work and organisational routines.
• Strong capability in product and proposition leadership, learning and behavioural design, strategic judgement, influence and adaptive leadership.
• Experience modernising learning or capability ecosystems, including digital platforms, design standards and balancing investment, value and capacity across complex portfolios.
• Knowledge of modern learning ecosystems, behavioural science, learning data and analytics, emerging skills trends and agile, human-centred, product-based approaches to design and delivery.

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.

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.