Legal & Rights Management
Permanent - Full Time
London, GB, W12 7FA
BBC Studios Productions
Job Closing Date: 28/05/2025

PAY DESCRIPTION

Job Reference: 23600
Band: E
Salary: Up to £100,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,319 discretionary bonus of 15%. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Location: Office base is London Television Centre. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

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.

THE ROLE

We have an exciting opportunity in our Entertainment production Legal and Business Affairs team as Senior Business and Legal Affairs Manager.

Main Responsibilities:

• Negotiate and draft a wide range of complex production and development agreements, including but not limited to key on-screen talent, linear/SVOD commissioning, distribution, co-production, funding and other rights agreements.
• Anticipate and mitigate legal, financial, reputational and business risk while at the same time offering strategies or alternative ideas to resolve them.
• Be the principal point of contact for the production areas you support, and deliver timely and high quality legal and business affairs advice in order to maximise the opportunity for the business to deliver on its goals.
• Manage a broad workload autonomously and unsupervised, referring upwards as required.
• Propose and deliver structures for complicated rights and commercial deals, and understand and implement commercial and business strategies.
• Offer senior support to the Head of Legal and Business Affairs, including deputising when required.
• Provide line management and/or supervision support to the Business Affairs Managers, Executives and Assistants.
• Form excellent working relationships with the production teams that you support in order that you become a trusted advisor to those teams who can depend on you for timely and high quality advice.
• Form excellent working relationships with other parts of the BBC group as well as key external contacts.
• To champion the BBC Group values, creating a supportive and dynamic culture that encourages trust, empowerment, collaboration, creativity, and diversity.