Head of Recruitment Delivery

JOB BAND: F
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Group Talent Acquisition, HR
LOCATION: Hybrid

We'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.

The successful candidate will be mapped to the career path framework role: Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the BBC's Talent Acquisition leadership team and play a critical role in shaping the future workforce of one of the world's most recognised media organisations. As Head of Recruitment Delivery, you'll lead end to end hiring across the BBC, ensuring diverse, high quality talent is recruited at scale. Driving operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement, you'll help deliver the people capability that enables the BBC to inform, educate and entertain audiences across the UK and beyond.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM
This is a unique opportunity to lead Recruitment delivery at the heart of the BBC, influencing how one of the world's most trusted and creative organisations attracts and hires talent. You'll join a collaborative senior leadership team committed to innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement, while leading a high performing function with significant scale and impact. The role offers the chance to shape strategy through delivery, develop exceptional teams, and leave a lasting legacy across the organisation.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Lead Recruitment delivery across the BBC, ensuring diverse, high quality talent is hired efficiently and effectively to meet business priorities and workforce plans
• Inspire and develop a large, multi-layered recruitment team, creating a high performance culture focused on service excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Drive operational excellence at scale, embedding consistent recruitment processes, leveraging data and insights, and improving hiring outcomes, candidate experience, and delivery performance
• Partner with senior leaders and Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partners to translate workforce strategies into executable hiring plans, providing insight, challenge, and solutions to complex recruitment needs
• Shape the future of Talent Acquisition at the BBC by working closely with Enablement, Employer Brand, and specialist teams to maximise the impact of technology, assessment, attraction, and talent intelligence capabilities.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Significant experience leading large scale Recruitment delivery functions within complex, matrixed organisations, with accountability for end to end recruitment outcomes
• Proven track record of delivering high volume and/or specialist hiring at scale, using data and performance metrics to drive measurable business results
• Strong leadership experience managing large, multi layered teams, with the ability to build high performing cultures and develop leaders through others
• Demonstrated ability to translate workforce plans and business priorities into effective hiring strategies and delivery plans, influencing senior stakeholders in complex environments
• Strong operational excellence mindset, with experience embedding consistent recruitment processes, driving continuous improvement, and improving diversity, quality, and efficiency outcomes through data led decision making

DESIRABLE:

• Experience working within a large, complex, public sector, regulated, or highly matrixed organisation
• Experience partnering with Employer Brand, Talent Intelligence, or Recruitment Marketing teams to align attraction strategies with hiring delivery objectives

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.