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Minimum of 2 days a week in the office (Thursday is the team day), and as required for business need.\nPROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £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.\nWe'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.\nPURPOSE OF THE ROLE\nAs a Senior Procurement Business Partner, you will lead the commercial procurement agenda for a broad business portfolio across BBC Commercial, working with variety of business stakeholders to turn business priorities into a forward-looking commercial procurement plan. 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You will develop your leadership and commercial expertise while supporting colleagues to grow and delivering tangible value for the BBC.\nYOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT\nAs a Senior Procurement Business Partner you will:\nPartner with business leaders, budget holders and supplier owners to understand their objectives, challenge demand and investment choices constructively, and translate strategy into a prioritised commercial procurement plan and forward pipeline.\nLead the most complex sourcing, negotiation, renewal, renegotiation and exit activities, developing recommendations that balance cost, risk, supplier dependency and business priorities.\nOwn the commercial outcomes and benefits across your portfolio, including savings and value delivery; monitor and manage pipeline and progress with Finance and business stakeholders, and address competing priorities or escalate unresolved trade-offs.\nDevelop and lead major category strategies where assigned, connecting priorities across the BBC and using spend analysis, market insight and supplier intelligence to identify opportunities and inform decisions.\nBring together procurement and other specialist expertise at the right time, working with colleagues across the Group Commercial Procurement, Risk and Supplier Management, Info-sec, DP, Legal, Finance and other relevant functions to support compliant, responsible decisions and manage risk.\nLead, deploy and develop business partners and other commercial colleagues, setting clear expectations, coaching individuals and supporting a positive, inclusive team culture\nLead and manage a team of commercial procurement managers, setting clear objectives, allocating work, managing performance and supporting development through coaching and feedback. Create an inclusive, collaborative culture in which people can thrive and deliver results.\nYOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE\nESSENTIAL CRITERIA\nSignificant senior-mid level procurement or commercial experience, with a track record of developing portfolio or category strategies and delivering measurable benefits across complex organisation and third-party/supplier spend.\nStrong commercial judgement and negotiation skills, with experience leading complex sourcing and contractual decisions, assessing trade-offs and managing competing priorities.\nExperience building trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and influencing decisions through clear communication, constructive challenge, sound judgement and an understanding of business needs.\nProven ability to lead, manage and develop a team, set direction, allocate resources and support performance, provide constructive feedback in a collaborative and inclusive way.\nStrong analytical skills and experience using spend data and market insight to shape plans, alongside a sound understanding of procurement governance and risk in a regulated environment.\nDESIRABLE\nExperience in media, broadcasting, content production or another complex creative environment.\nExperience working across multiple business areas or leading a significant category across an organisation.\nProfessional procurement qualification such as MCIPS, or equivalent relevant experience.\nExperience of supporting organisational change or developing procurement capability and ways of working.\nIf 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.\nBefore your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. 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