Production Management Assistant EMEA

BBC Studios; Greater London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC Studios in London is seeking a Production Management Assistant to support promotional campaigns across On Air, Social and Digital platforms. You will ensure content meets brand, compliance and broadcast standards before reaching audiences.

You’ll handle quality control, media management, asset delivery and administration, providing operational support to the EMEA Creative team and coordinating monthly production workflows with strong organization and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Experience as Production Management Assistant in broadcast/media.
• Experience performing quality control on broadcast content.
• Excellent attention to detail for branding, spelling, metadata.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills managing workflows.
• Experience with media management tools and production software (MS Office, Premiere, Dropbox).

Responsibilities

• Carry out quality control checks on promotional campaigns.
• Review and validate assets for accuracy, branding and technical specs.
• Provide support to the EMEA Creative team for monthly production workflows.
• Manage media assets, archiving and cataloguing for sharing.
• Produce transmission logs and maintain scheduling and music data.
• Support the Production Coordinator with asset delivery and ad hoc activities.
• Build relationships and ensure BBC policies compliance.

Skills

Production management

Quality control

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Media management tools

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe Premiere

Dropbox

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: B

CONTRACT TYPE: 12 Month Fixed-term Contract, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Communications

LOCATION: London – Television Centre

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £27,000 plus £5,441 London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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

Join the EMEA Creative team as a Production Management Assistant, playing a critical role in the delivery of promotional campaigns across On Air, Social and Digital platforms. Acting as a key operational support within the team, you'll be responsible for quality control, media management, asset delivery and administration, ensuring all content meets brand, compliance and broadcast standards before reaching audiences.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a busy creative production environment, supporting campaigns seen by audiences across multiple platforms. You'll play a key role in maintaining the quality and compliance of content, collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders, and gain exposure to all stages of the production process. If you're highly organised, detail-oriented and thrive in a fast-paced broadcast environment, this role offers real ownership and variety.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Carry out quality control checks on promotional campaigns, ensuring all content meets broadcast, brand and compliance standards before transmission.
• Review and validate assets for accuracy, including spelling, branding, audio tagging and technical specifications.
• Provide technical and administrative support to the EMEA Creative team, supporting the smooth running of monthly production workflows.
• Manage media assets, including archiving, cataloguing and maintaining content within media management systems to enable sharing across the business.
• Produce transmission logs and accurately maintain scheduling, transmission and music information across relevant systems.
• Support the Production Coordinator and wider team with the delivery of projects, asset distribution and ad hoc production activities.
• Build strong working relationships across the business, acting as a key point of contact and ensuring compliance with BBC policies and procedures.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Previous experience working as a Production Management Assistant within a broadcast, production or media environment.
• Experience carrying out quality control checks on broadcast or consumer-facing content, with a strong understanding of brand and compliance requirements.
• Exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to identify and resolve errors relating to spelling, branding, metadata and technical delivery standards.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills, with experience managing recurring workflows, competing priorities and deadlines.
• Experience using media management systems and production software, including Microsoft Office applications, Adobe Premiere, Dropbox and similar content management tools.

Desired But Not Required

• Knowledge of broadcast transmission processes, digital asset management and media delivery workflows.
• Experience working across multiple content platforms, including On Air, Social and Digital.
• Experience working in an international or multilingual environment.
• Ability to identify opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.
• Experience influencing stakeholders and building effective working relationships across creative and operational teams.

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.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest, we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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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.