Business Advisor

BBC Group and Public Services; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

Business Advisor

Production Management

Fixed Term - Full Time

Cardiff, GB, CF10 1FT

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 06/04/25

THE ROLE

Band : D

Salary : £38,100 - £44,400 per annum depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract : 1 Fixed Term Contract / Attachment (12 Months)

Job Purpose

The Business Advisor role reports into the Head of Production in BBC Wales and sits in the Business Management Production team. The team is responsible for providing a wide range of support across the production business, including production management, budgeting, procurement advice, risk management, innovation, projects, strategic advice and support.

The team supports the Radio Wales, Radio Cymru, BBC Wales News, BBC Wales Sport and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales departments. This role will focus in one or two areas of the business and is expected to work collaboratively across the Business Management Team to deliver best practice ways of working in all areas.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

The role works closely with senior production leaders and is responsible for maintaining high quality information to support good decision making in the business.

• Fully manage the funding plan to deliver the business area content strategy.
• Put in place effective control and monitoring to manage production spend.
• Establish good risk mitigations to minimise the impact of risks.
• Ensure department monitoring is timely and accurate.
• Provide effective business advice to the senior management teams.
• Report progress on compliance for spend, sustainability and content hours.
• Key stakeholder for all support functions: Finance, HR, Procurement, Projects, Technology, Operations.
• Discuss and agree effective responsibility lines between production support teams.
• Provide clarity to production teams – turning complex workflows, terminology, controls and activity into meaningful information and plans.
• Explore and help develop new opportunities that add value in the production area.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

The successful candidate will work in a very busy and often demanding production environment where each hour of the day can be very different to the one planned. The role suits someone good at planning and organising but are prepared to be flexible and change their plans at short notice. You will need to remember and apply an extensive range of business, administrative and production management knowledge and potentially deliver imaginative workaround solutions but always within company policies and guidelines. Collaboration and close working relationships with the production teams is a must for this role. Home working is possible, but you should expect to be in the office for 3 to 4 days every week.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the following key skills and attributes:

• excellent data management and analysis skills
• awareness and implementation of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging elements
• ability to spot and minimise risks in the business model
• ability to present business analysis to a wide range of stakeholders
• experience of production management and/or managing a portfolio of productions
• knowledge of end-to-end production and multi-platform workflows
• ability to influence and drive the most efficient use of production resources
• take an interest in sustainability and be prepared to challenge negative environmental behaviours
• experience of driving change in a complex and changing environment
• up-to-date knowledge of the BBC Content, BBC Vision and trends in the wider industry

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.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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.