Senior Sourcing Advisor - Talent Acquisition

Job Introduction

As the BBC moves into its 101st year of informing, educating and entertaining its audiences, we are adapting and refining our Talent Acquisition teams to help source the world’s best candidates to build #YourBBC.

The newly created Strategic Sourcing team will be focused on data-led, inclusive and nuanced market-predictive talent acquisition activity, with candidate experience at the centre of all we do.

As a team, Strategic Sourcing will be ‘consultative’ in the truest sense of the word. We’ll provide subject matter expertise to our colleagues across all divisions at the BBC: Production, Content, News and Current Affairs, Technology + Product, Corporate Functions and Nations & Regions.

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior Sourcing Advisor, you’ll be a Talent subject matter expert to our key stakeholders. You’ll be involved in and leading on a number of talent acquisition workstreams. This will include:

• Sourcing for, maintaining and actively engaging inclusive and specialist talent pools to help fill specific vacancies, build wider talent programmes and future-proof hiring activity across the BBC.
• Being a BBC Brand Ambassador in all sourcing activity, championing our employer brand strategy in all interactions internally and externally.
• Provide key advice, recommendations and deep market knowledge to our hiring communities and the prospective BBC employees you engage with. This could include current market trends, salary benchmarking, best sourcing practice, candidate feedback etc.
• Using data to inform and improve all of our Sourcing activity, from talent pooling to process tweaks and anything in-between.
• Partner closely with our Employer brand, Executive Search, Contingent and BAU Talent teams on the key work we’re performing and leverage the many different skillsets across our group.
• As a Senior Advisor, we’d love for you to act as a mentor to the Advisors in the team and help upskill them in their BBC journey.
• Driving and applying creative and cost-effective sourcing tools to identify diverse talent

These are just some of the main workstreams you could be involved in, but as we’re a new team you can expect the scope, responsibilities and variety of this role to adapt as we implement our Sourcing function.

Are you the right candidate?

We’ll need to see the following on your CV and in your questionnaire answers in order to be considered for our Senior Advisor opportunity:

• Previous recruitment or sourcing experience. This can be from agency, RPO/embedded partner or a full in-house talent role
• Experience in building and cultivating research around passive candidates and building talent pools of qualified and engaged candidates
• You must be comfortable working with, creating and visualising datasets. Excel/Sheets experience to an intermediate level will be needed.
• Working knowledge of popular sourcing tools/methods such as LinkedIn, Otta, X-ray searching etc
• Previous experience of maintaining talent pools in a CRM tool
• A keen advocate for Inclusivity and Diversity across all aspects of talent acquisition
• Any previous experience in talent marketing/employer brand work would be highly beneficial
• The ability to work effectively managing multiple priorities and hiring projects at any time

If you’re looking for a truly multi-faceted recruitment opportunity, with an organisation that makes an impact, this could be the role for you.

Other notes

The interview process for this role will have 2 stages:

• A behavioural and competency question interview / 30-45 minutes

• A brief presentation given by you, on a specific sourcing challenge we’ll provide. This will be followed by a Q&A session, any follow-up questions from stage 1 and 4 strength based questions. (60-90 mins)

Total potential interview time = 2 hours 25 minutes

The BBC job family title for this role is 'Senior Resourcing Advisor'

To help you assess your experience level for this role, our team structure is: Strategic Sourcing Business Parter > Sourcing Team Lead > Senior Sourcing Advisor (this role) > Sourcing Advisor

Please contact darren.read@bbc.co.uk for any queries regarding this role.

About the BBC

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid working (part home/part office). Office base can be Salford, Glasgow, Cardiff, Newcastle, Belfast or London

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• Annual leave 26 days, (based on your working pattern 1 of which is a corporation day) + bank holidays of course with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch (darren.read@bbc.co.uk) so we can support you.