Senior Technical Project Manager (SAP)

BBC Group and Public Services; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading broadcasting organization seeks a Senior Technical Project Manager (SAP) to lead technology projects and improve processes within the BBC. The role involves managing complex projects, ensuring adherence to time and budget constraints, and requires significant experience in SAP and project management methodologies. The team offers excellent career development, a flexible work-life balance, and comprehensive benefits including training opportunities and a defined pension scheme.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave with option to buy an extra 5 days

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental, health care and gym

Excellent career progression opportunities

Unrivalled training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience delivering SAP complex technology projects with budgets over £500k.
• Experience managing procurement and commercial processes.
• Proficient in various delivery methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects to deliver outputs within agreed constraints of scope, time, cost, and quality.
• Monitor and evaluate project progress and initiate corrective actions as necessary.
• Ensure adherence to BBC policies and standards.

Skills

Planning

Organization

Communication

Resilience

SAP Project Delivery

Agile Methodology

Waterfall Methodology

Microsoft Tools

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Technical Project Manager (SAP)

Senior Technical Project Manager (SAP)

Project Management

Fixed Term - Full Time

Job Closing Date: 08/06/2025

THE ROLE

Job Band

Job Requisition: 23783
Band: D
Salary range £65,000 - £75,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights
Contract type: 12 month FTC (attachment)
Location: London Broadcasting House

Advert closing date 08 June 2025

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

This role is based in the SAP Product Team, within the Corporate Systems department, which sits in the Technology Group division. In this team there are 3 primary disciplines; project management, product management & business analysis. This team delivers technology projects, continuous improvement & technical support for a variety of systems & applications that are used by employees across the BBC group.

The role of the Senior Project Manager is to deliver SAP technology projects that will enable product & process improvement across the BBC Group

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Manage the project or workstream to deliver the agreed output, outcomes and benefits within the agreed scope, time, cost and quality constraints
• Apply oversight and evaluate, monitor and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and change requests, escalating those outside tolerance if appropriate.
• Effectively manage people (including third parties) and other resources.
• Maintain suitable project plans, and manage day-to-day progress against a detailed plan.
• Monitor project progress, regularly report on status and initiate corrective actions.
• Produce and manage day-to-day progress against a detailed plan and produce a high-level roadmap which extracts key milestones and dependencies to share with stakeholders.
• Ensure all project expenditure (or activity) is tracked and reconciled to budget/plan with forecast to complete or value returned to inform decision making.
• Ensure adherence to relevant BBC policies and standards. Including project management, health and safety, financial, legal, procurement and other compliance requirements.

Are you the right candidate?

To be succesful in the role, you will have:

• Experience of delivering at least one SAP complex technology project (e.g. multiple workstreams, third-party/supplier management, budget of >£500k)

Experience of managing procurement and/or commercial processes as part of the end-to-end project lifecycle

Excellent planning, organisation & communication skills

Experience of using different delivery methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Hybrid, Agile) & an understanding of their respective benefits/risks

Ability to work at pace & remain resilient when faced with conflicting priorities or demands

Experience of delivering technology projects in a fast-changing, political and complicated environment

Proficient user of Microsoft Tools - e.g., Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint etc

Experience of delivering technology projects at other public sector organisations and/or other media organisations

Experience of delivering technology projects that have implemented SAP products

Understands organisational transformation challenges and how to operate effectively in this context

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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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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.

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.