Senior Business & Legal Affairs Manager

Job Details

Department: Entertainment Business & Legal Affairs

Job band: E

Contract type: Permanent, Full-time

Location: London TVC. This is a hybrid role; the successful candidate will balance office working (at least 2 days per week, subject to change)

Proposed salary range: up to £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 are happy to discuss flexible working. If you would like to indicate your preference in the application, there is no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of the Role

The Senior Business and Legal Affairs Manager will support the Entertainment production Business and Legal Affairs team, which is part of the new Unscripted group that includes Factual production teams.

Why Join The Team

Our Entertainment production team creates popular programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing, BBC's Eurovision broadcasts, Comic Relief, Children in Need and many others. The BLA team supports the production teams with around 10 members based in London, with three in Bristol and Cardiff.

Role And Responsibilities

• Negotiate and draft a wide range of complex unscripted production and development agreements, including 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 offering strategies or alternative ideas to resolve them.
• Act as the principal point of contact for the production areas you support, delivering timely and high‑quality legal and business affairs advice to maximise business opportunity.
• 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.
• Provide 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.
• Build excellent working relationships with the production teams you support, becoming a trusted advisor for timely and high‑quality advice.
• Build excellent working relationships with other parts of BBC Studios and BBC Public Service, as well as key external contacts.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified lawyer (or similar legal qualification) with the appropriate level of PQE to perform the job responsibilities.
• Significant experience in complex drafting and negotiation of television production rights agreements and in advising on and managing risk.
• Highly business‑oriented with a commercial approach, and recent experience in a commercial organisation.
• Adept at dealing with disagreements and devising solutions where trade‑offs are involved.
• Proven experience in line management.

Desired Criteria

• Experience negotiating complex unscripted television production agreements, such as commissioning agreements with global streaming platforms (Netflix, Amazon, Apple) and co‑development/co‑production agreements.
• A passion for media.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, its principal accountabilities, and the skills, knowledge and experience required for satisfactory performance. It is not a complete, detailed account of all duties involved.

Should you be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks, including reference checks, eligibility to work checks and, where applicable, safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks. Any offer is conditional on satisfactory completion of these checks.

Prior to your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Recruitment policy. Failure to disclose may result in withdrawal of the offer.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and will give priority consideration to those employees seeking redeployment, alongside anyone at risk of redundancy, before considering any other applicants.

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