Senior Commercial Procurement Business Partner (Corporate Services), News & CCOG

BBC MEDIA ACTION (INDIA) LIMITED

75,000 - 95,000 per year

Any major BBC hub (UK based)

Full-time

29th September 2025

Package Description

Job ID: 23418

Salary: £75,000 – £95,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Band: E

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Any major BBC hub (UK based)

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Monday 29th September 2025

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at the offer stage.

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, gym and muchmore.

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.

This role sits within the divisional procurement team, partnering with CCOG (Chief Customer Operating Group) which is made up of marketing (media, branding and creative) + audiences and revenue management, together with all things BBC News.

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?

Ability to influence the set up & positioning of strategic procurement projects for example:
- Driving consolidation of supply
- Influencing changes in the supply base down to risk factors that you identify
- Up-stream operating model changes – using a commercial and category skill set to influence operational change in advance of a sourcing process
- Using credible influence & balanced positioning to challenge demand and or specification up stream and in advance of a sourcing process
Ability to adjust style and approaches to a wider set of stakeholders, enabling effective influence, trust and credibility for key moments in projects or as required in the moment
Ability to drive cost optimisation across a mix of business services from consultancy to financial services, HR providers, travel partners, tech platforms and more as required
Ability to influence business stakeholders on commercial model changes and actions to prevent risk
Ability to drive cost optimisation with consultancy partners utilising an approach supported by Snr stakeholders, ensuring reduced risk to the output of deliverables
Ability to drive change & benefit with extended workforce operating models
Knowledge of outsourcing and best ways to drive risk reduction and sustainable cost improvement across people process and systems
Ability to drive value with HR spend e.g. consolidation of supply & specification challenge
Knowledge of and ability to negotiate SAAS contracts
Ability to collaborate across divisions, and with key partners such as Finance, Sustainability, Legal, Information Security, Responsible AI, etc to articulate and mitigate risk
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)

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