Strategic Alignment Lead

BBC Group and Public Services; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Discounted health care

Job summary

BBC Group and Public Services in London or any BBC UK office is seeking a Strategic Alignment Lead to turn complexity into clarity, alignment and action across BBC MediaTech. You’ll work at a portfolio level, shaping how strategic choices are made across a range of digital products.

This newly established function will help define how Portfolio Alignment works in practice, aligning teams with priorities and enabling informed decisions without owning delivery.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and navigate complex organisational systems.
• Strong judgement in ambiguous environments.
• Experience translating diverse information into clear recommendations and actions.
• Experience influencing decisions across organisational boundaries.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills for aligning groups with competing priorities.
• Experience supporting senior leaders through complex decisions and organisational change.
• Comfortable operating where ownership or ways of working evolve and creating momentum.
• Proven track record of shaping organisational outcomes beyond mere coordination.

Responsibilities

• Create clarity on portfolio health, strategic priorities, risks and opportunities across BBC MediaTech.
• Surface emerging risks, dependencies, constraints and opportunities before they become visible in standard reporting.
• Help leaders make better, faster decisions by turning complex information into clear insights and recommendations.
• Build alignment across teams, portfolios and stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Connect information, people and priorities across the organisation to create a coherent view of what matters most.
• Shape how strategic decisions are informed, discussed and acted upon across MediaTech.

Skills

Systems thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-organizational influence

Decision support

Prioritization

Adaptability

Impact orientation

Influence senior leaders

Job description

London, GBR, W1A 1AA
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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 preferencein the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will bepart 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 madeacross a complex portfolio of digital products, not just how work is delivered. As a newlyestablished function, you’ll help define how Portfolio Alignment works in practice, notjust operate within an established model. This is an opportunity to influence how workis sequenced and coordinated across a complex environment, supporting strategicdecisions 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.

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.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

Information at a Glance

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Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

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We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

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