Business Advisor, Unscripted Business Team

Package Description

Job Reference: 23521

Band: D
Contract type: Continuous (two roles)
Location: London (Home/Office - Hybrid)
Salary: £40,000- £50,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. London weighting may be applicable.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - we offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

Job Introduction

Unscripted Commissioning comprises of the following programme genres: Entertainment, Arts & Classical Music, Documentaries, Specialist Factual (Natural History, Science, History & Religion), Factual Entertainment & Events and Daytime & Early Peak.

Working within the Unscripted Business team, you will work with the Unscripted Commissioners to deliver their commissioning strategy. You will be across the overall genre budget, the development of ideas, the commissioning process, the programme prices and strategic priorities of your genres - working across programming from BBC Studios and the wider Independent Production sector with support from embedded Business Affairs, Planning and Finance teams.

Main Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Business, you will be responsible for the delivery of a programming strategy within the Unscripted genres you are responsible for and with consideration to the wider Business & Operations priorities.

This includes advising on use of funding, supplier strategy, programme prices, negotiation of programme deals, use of development budget, commissioning meetings and all associated activities in the coordination of business activity.

You will manage internal and external stakeholders as required and ensure that commissioning decisions are made in accordance with BBC's key strategic priorities.

Are you the right candidate?

• Experience of working within broadcasting in a comparable role either in production and/or commissioning support.
• Project management skills with an ability to improve organisational effectiveness and support a culture of continuous improvement.
• Demonstrable experience of maintaining constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• A passion for and experience within Unscripted programming.
• Ability to work with limited supervision, using own initiative to resolve day-to-day problems and identifying when to refer issues.
• Experience of providing business management assistance within an environment of similar complexity.
• Substantial experience of office software packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

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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.

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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.