Product and Service Assurance Manager

Bertelsmann-Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Fremantle in the United Kingdom seeks a Product and Service Assurance Manager to oversee the health of the Media Supply Chain, focusing on MAM and integration layers, and managing live services including incidents, changes and releases.

The role sits between Media Operations and Media Technology, requires hands-on troubleshooting, data analysis, and a proactive approach to automation to reduce repetitive work. Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in senior media technology or content supply chain roles.
• Proven experience managing third-party vendor deliverables and SLAs, including commercial and delivery performance tracking.
• Experience tracking and managing projects/tasks across internal teams and external vendors.
• Comfortable running milestone- and priority-driven delivery approaches.
• Interface between Operations and Technology, converting requirements into actionable work.
• High degree of technical literacy and hands-on troubleshooting.
• AI-literate with a build-to-automate mentality to remove repetitive work.
• Experience with SaaS platforms and integrations in media/content supply chains.
• Experience with service/run operations: incident, release, QA.
• Strong stakeholder management with vendors and internal teams.
• Commercial acumen for negotiating vendor contracts and SLAs.
• Programme management framework applied pragmatically.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery performance of vendors across the Media Supply Chain and track deliverables against SLAs.
• Coordinate incidents, releases, testing and acceptance, and backlog prioritisation with internal and vendor teams.
• Maintain the operational Jira estate and ensure visibility of all work across stakeholders.
• Act as central coordinator between Media Operations and Technology for issues and work requests.
• Identify repetitive manual tasks and drive automation/AI-driven solutions.
• Contribute to regular vendor governance and review forums.

Skills

Vendor management

SLA tracking

Project management

Milestone delivery

Ops-Tech liaison

Technical literacy

Hands-on troubleshooting

Automation mindset

AI literacy

SaaS integrations

Service operations

Incident management

Release management

QA practices

Stakeholder management

Vendor contracts

Programme management

Tools

Jira

Automation tools

AI tooling

SaaS platforms

Job description

Company Description

Creating the Extraordinary, Together.

Fremantle is a powerhouse of the TV and Film industry. We are one of the world’s largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of Entertainment, Drama & Film and Documentaries.

From critically acclaimed dramas like The Responder, starring Martin Freeman, award winning films including Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar nominated The Hand of God to incredible entertainment like The Rap Game, Too Hot to Handle, The Apprentice and Britain’s Got Talent, we make shows with global appeal.

Our purpose

We are driven by a shared purpose of Creating the Extraordinary, Together. We tell stories that connect people around the world, reflecting and celebrating the diversity of the world we live in. Through compelling, irresistible entertainment, we aim to engage and inspire our audiences. To achieve this, we bring together people from all backgrounds and cultures, both in our teams and on our shows. We are committed to creating opportunities for talent by being inclusive in all that we do.

Job Description

Department/Area of Business: Global Media Supply Chain & Operations

Reports to: Global Head of Media Supply Chain & Operations

Overall Purpose of the Role

The Product and Service Assurance Manager is responsible for the product and operational health of Fremantle's Media Supply Chain. Focusing on the MAM and related integration layers and the vendors who build, configure and support these. This role owns the operational management of live services, including incident, change and release management.

The role sits between Media Operations and Media Technology, translating operational challenges into clear, prioritised, actionable work. This role is expected to be hands‑on, getting into support queues, data and high level technical troubleshooting directly. The role holder will run work on a milestone and priority-led basis, track all work through appropriate tools such as Jira across internal and external teams, and take an ‘automate, don't own’ approach to repetitive tasks, using AI where appropriate.

Main Objectives of the Role

• Own the delivery performance of vendors across the Media Supply Chain, tracking deliverables against contracted SLAs.
• Escalate and resolve vendor underperformance, feeding outcomes into renewal and commercial decisions.
• Coordinates incidents, releases, testing and acceptance, backlog prioritisation and lifecycle, dependency and decommissioning decisions.
• Act as the central point of coordination and escalation for significant service incidents, ensuring issues are triaged, progressed and communicated through to resolution.
• Coordinate release planning, testing and go‑live activity across multiple vendors and internal teams, ensuring changes are sequenced and communicated without disrupting BAU Operations.
• Act as the primary interface between Media Operations and Technology (internal and external), collating and converting user requests and workarounds into clear, actionable, prioritised work.
• Own and maintain the operational Jira estate, internal and vendor-facing, ensuring all work is tracked, visible and accountable.
• Run a milestone- and priority-led approach to managing the flow of work.
• Get hands‑on with troubleshooting, data investigation when required, rather than only coordinating others to do so.
• Identify repetitive or manual work and build or commission automation/AI-driven solutions to remove it, rather than absorbing it as ongoing manual effort.
• Contribute to regular vendor governance and review forums.
• Identify solutions, drawing on broader technical and media industry knowledge and that of SMEs within teams.

Qualifications

Knowledge and Skills

• 5+ years' experience in senior media technology or content supply chain roles.
• Highly experienced in managing third-party vendor deliverables and SLAs, including commercial and delivery performance tracking.
• Proven experience tracking and managing projects/tasks, across both internal teams and external vendors.
• Comfortable running a milestone- and priority-driven delivery approach
• Demonstrated ability to act as the interface between Operations and Technology teams (internal and external), converting user requirements, service issues and operational pain points into clear, actionable, prioritised work.
• High degree of technical literacy.
• Practical and hands‑on, with the ability to investigate support tickets, data issues and media-technical problems directly.
• AI-literate, with a ‘build to automate’ mentality — actively looks to remove repetitive or manual work through automation rather than absorbing it personally.
• Experience with SaaS platforms and integrations between systems, ideally within a media/content supply chain (MAM, CRM or similar).
• Experience with service/run operations: incident management, release management and QA practices.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, confident working with vendors, internal technical teams and business/operations stakeholders alike.
• Solution-oriented, with high attention to detail, accuracy and a bias to action under tight deadlines.
• Commercial acumen — comfortable reading and negotiating around vendor contracts and SLAs.
• Experience with a programme management framework applied pragmatically rather than dogmatically.

Additional Information

Responsibility for Resources

• SaaS technology estate and vendor relationships
• Ticketing estate — internal and vendor-facing.
• Service, release and QA governance.

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