Location
Any BBC UK office (Hybrid) - including London Broadcasting House

Hours
Full-time, Permanent

Salary
£65,400 - £87,133 per year depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience

About the Role
Large organisations rarely struggle because they lack ideas. They struggle because priorities compete, decisions take too long, important signals are missed, and nobody is looking across the whole system. We're building a new function to help solve those problems. As a Strategic Alignment Lead, you'll help BBC MediaTech turn complexity into clarity, alignment and action. You won't manage projects, own delivery, or run operational services. Instead, you'll help leaders understand what matters most, where trade-offs exist, and what action is needed next.

You’ll operate at a digital portfolio level helping shape how strategic choices are made across a complex portfolio of digital products, not just how work is delivered. As a newly established function, you’ll help define how Portfolio Alignment works in practice, not just operate within an established model. This is an opportunity to influence how work is sequenced and coordinated across a complex environment, supporting strategic decisions that help the BBC deliver for audiences now and in the future.

Your key responsibilities include creating clarity on portfolio health, strategic priorities, risks and opportunities across BBC MediaTech; surfacing emerging risks, dependencies, constraints and opportunities before they become visible through standard reporting; helping leaders make better, faster decisions by turning complex information into clear insight and recommendations; building alignment across teams, portfolios and stakeholders with competing priorities and perspectives; connecting information, people and priorities from across the organisation to create a coherent view of what matters most; and shaping how strategic decisions are informed, discussed and acted upon across MediaTech.

Experience
- Ability to understand and navigate complex organisational systems, identifying factors that influence outcomes beyond individual teams, projects or programmes.
- Strong judgement and the ability to identify what matters most in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
- Experience bringing together diverse information, perspectives and signals and translating them into clear recommendations, insight and action.
- Experience influencing decisions, priorities and outcomes across organisational boundaries without direct authority.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills, including the ability to align groups with competing priorities or perspectives.
- Experience supporting senior leaders through complex decisions, trade-offs or organisational change.
- Evidence of shaping organisational outcomes, not simply tracking, reporting or coordinating activity.

About you
- You are the person people turn to when something important is stuck, unclear or fragmented.
- You enjoy helping organisations make progress where the path forward isn't obvious.
- You naturally see connections, patterns and risks that others miss.
- You ask difficult questions, challenge assumptions and focus attention on what matters most.
- You enjoy influencing senior leaders and shaping decisions, even when you don't own the outcome.
- You are motivated by organisational impact rather than ownership of delivery.
- Comfortable operating where ownership, priorities or ways of working are evolving, and able to create momentum despite uncertainty.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated, but relevant experience and skills as outlined above are essential.