Senior Business & Legal Affairs Manager
BBC Media Action
Legal
London, UK
GBP 100k-100k / year
JOB DETAILS
DEPARTMENT: ENTERTAINMENT Business & Legal Affairs
JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
LOCATION: London TVC, This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working (at least 2 days per week, subject to change)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: upto £100,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.Plus London Weighting Allowance of. £5,441 and 15% Bonus OTE. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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.
WE ARE BBC STUDIOS
A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.
Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
We have an exciting opportunity in our Entertainment production Business and Legal Affairs team as Senior Business and Legal Affairs Manager.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM:
Just some of the exciting programmes we produce in Entertainment are: Strictly Come Dancing, Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake, Later with Jools Holland, the BBC’s Eurovision broadcasts, Comic Relief, Children in Need, The One Show, Dragons Den, Countryfile, Gardeners’ World, Bargain Hunt, Antiques Roadshow, travelogues, royal weddings/funerals/jubilees/coronations/concerts and national war memorial events such as the recent anniversary events for D-day and VE Day.
Entertainment is now part of an exciting new Unscripted group within BBC Studios which also includes the Factual production teams that make Natural History, Religion, Science, Docs and other specialist Factual programming.
The BLA team that supports the Entertainment production teams consists of around 10 others who are mainly based in Television Centre in London, with three based in our Bristol and Cardiff offices supporting the production teams there.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Negotiate and draft a wide range of complex unscripted production and development agreements, including but not limited to key on-screen talent, linear/SVOD commissioning, co-development, co-production, funding and other rights agreements;
- Anticipate and mitigate legal, financial, reputational and business risk while at the same time offering strategies or alternative ideas to resolve them;
- Be a principal point of contact for the production areas you support, and deliver timely and high quality legal and business affairs advice in order to maximise the opportunity for the business to deliver on its goals;
- Manage a broad workload autonomously, referring upwards as required;
- Propose and deliver structures for complicated rights and commercial deals in unscripted production and development, and understand and implement commercial and business strategies;
- Offer senior support to the Head of Business and Legal Affairs, including deputising when required;
- Provide line management and/or supervision support to the Business Affairs Managers, Executives and Assistants on the array of unscripted production agreements that they work on day-to-day;
- Form excellent working relationships with the production teams that you support in order that you become a trusted advisor to those teams who can depend on you for timely and high quality advice;
- Form excellent working relationships with other parts of BBC Studios and BBC Public Service, as well as with key external contacts.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
- Qualified lawyer (or similar legal qualification) with an appropriate level of PQE to be able to effectively carry out the job responsibilities;
- Significant experience in (i) complex drafting and negotiation of a variety of television production rights agreements and (ii) advising upon and managing risk;
- Highly business-oriented operating with a commercial approach, with recent experience of working in a commercial organisation;
- Adept at dealing with disagreements and helping to devise solutions where trade-offs are involved;
- Proven experience in line management.
DESIRED CRITERIA
- Experience in negotiating complex unscripted television production agreements, such as commissioning agreements with global streaming platforms (eg Netflix, Amazon or Apple) and co-development/co-production agreements;
- A passion for Media
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC Studios
• A flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days.
• Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions).
• Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance and accident benefit.
• BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen. Find out more about BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets here.
• Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk
