Senior Commercial Procurement Business Partner (Distribution), Commercial & Content at BBC

Job Introduction

• The Commercial Procurement team is repositioning itself to become a strategic enabler for BBC. Senior Commercial Procurement Business Partners will play a key part in this by partnering with key stakeholders to influence and support strategic objectives. Driving third-party commercial strategy whilst navigating risk by managing supplier relationships, ensuring compliance with relevant standards. Providing leadership and management of a team that successfully delivers a project pipeline of cost optimisation and risk mitigation. Owning high-profile projects end-to-end and governance processes ensuring approval routes are efficient and effective, resulting in the best outcome for the BBC.

Main Responsibilities

• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and future plans, developing procurement strategies focused on cost efficiencies to align to business objectives.
• Implementing a Category spend plan, utilising external and internal data sources to support an appropriate sourcing and risk mitigation approach to a full pipeline of activities.
• Developing and implementing strategic sourcing plans that align with business objectives (across both single and competitive tenders).
• Motivating third party providers to optimise service outcomes whilst managing costs.
• Analysing market trends and data to identify cost-saving opportunities and provide actionable decisions.
• Implementing cost control strategies to achieve budgetary targets and align with Finance Business Partners as needed.
• Taking responsibility for junior procurement team members' pipeline of projects, ensuring the performance output.
• Monitoring and reporting on procurement performance metrics to ensure visibility and continuous improvement.
• Liaising with Global Process owners (GPO's) to ensure processes and suppliers comply with organisational policies, legal and ethical standards.
• Leading a team and mentoring the junior staff to work on development needs to build confidence and business acumen. Providing the appropriate tools and support for individuals to thrive.
• Playing a crucial role in developing the function into a centre of excellence, driving commercial insight and influence, and mitigating key business risk by collaborating effectively with the broader Procurement team.
• Setting an example as part of the extended Procurement Leadership Team, playing a key part in developing the procurement strategy and team culture as foundations for a high performing team.

Are you the right candidate?

• Knowledge and experience of media and distribution supply chain
• Flexibility to both Business Partner BBCS whilst adopting a ‘One Procurement’ approach, working closely with colleagues across the wider organisation to drive efficiencies and simplification where appropriate.
• Ability to proactively drive commercial benefits particularly in Marketing and/or Technology spend categories, using data and technology to identify opportunities holistically across the BBC.
• Ability to collaborate across divisions, and with key partners such as Finance, Sustainability, Legal, Information Security, Responsible AI, etc to articulate and mitigate risk.
• Shows energy and drive to bring market intelligence and innovation to support strategic business partnering
• Have an in-depth understanding of public procurement processes, market dynamics and supply chain management.
• Demonstrate strategic thinking capabilities with an ability to apply commercial acumen to given challenges - resulting in the best negotiated outcomes.
• Have significant interpersonal skills and ability to develop/maintain at all levels of the organisation, but specifically at senior executive level.
• Have experience and ability to understand data and take the appropriate action - blending external market knowledge with internal BBC context.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead, develop and manage a team in line with a wider function, driving overall improvement and successful delivery to a performance scorecard.
• Execute cost control strategies with excellent negotiated outcomes to achieve budgetary targets (personal targets and function-wide) aligning with Finance Business Partners with regular cadence on progress.
• Have substantial experience of supplier/contract management with the ability of managing key supplier issues and developing relationships to provide commercial benefit and innovation.
• Hold a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management (e.g. MCIPS, CPSM)