Essential Criteria

• Relevant media market experience with a proven track record of achievement in the media sector, including hands on experience working with digital media platforms and partnerships

• Understanding of the content delivery landscape (broadcasting and IP) and the BBC’s position in it, and the strategic importance of the distribution business

• Influencing and diplomatic skills, able to build trusting, productive relationships with contacts inside and outside the organisation. Good persuasion and negotiation skills. Experience of informing strategy

• Basic understanding and experience of legal terminology and contract principles, negotiation and practices. Project management skills and experience of major projects and programmes

• Digitally fluent, with strong skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Canva, AI enabled productivity tools, and Salesforce for data management, reporting, and pipeline tracking.

• Representing the BBC service to external partnerships and being a key ongoing point of liaison for partners in the required territories

• Working closely with BBC stakeholders including editorial to propose solutions that provide optimum routes to market for BBC service requirements

• Supporting projects to develop new and existing BBC services, working with project team members across the BBC and partners, ensuring compliant and timely delivery

• Manage third parties and the BBC’s partners to ensure distribution needs are met. Identify areas of opportunity and risk for the BBC, and advise the Partnerships Team’s leadership as required

• Monitor partner performance against BBC requirements, proposing corrective action to BD leadership

• Develop media market knowledge and contribute to development of BBC distribution strategy across broadcast and IP, advising partnerships team’s leadership

• Contributing to business cases for the Portfolio Management Committee and other boards as required