Senior Business and Legal Affairs Executive

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Natural History Unit (NHU)'s Business and Legal Affairs team as a Senior Business and Legal Affairs Executive on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract.

The NHU is the best-known and most loved producer of natural history content in the world, responsible for some of the most globally successful factual content of the past 10 years. The NHU's programmes have come to represent the gold standard for natural history filmmaking, winning multiple awards and honours.

Your key responsibilities and impact:

• Provide Senior Executive level business affairs drafting, negotiation, and contract management for a wide range of production agreements.
• Advise on more complex production issues, including contract terms, foreign production shoots, and employment of foreign artists.
• Ensure necessary rights are acquired for primary and secondary programme broadcast and exploitation as required.
• Work closely and collaboratively with the NHU production department and be a trusted go-to advisor to them.
• Build and manage effective and collaborative working relationships both internally within the BBC Group and externally.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate commercial, financial, contractual, brand, reputational, and intellectual property interests and risks.
• Use IT software and technology as required to manage and produce contractual documentation.

Your skills and experience:

• Proven experience in drafting, advising on, and negotiating rights contracts, with a strong understanding of copyright and other key legal contractual and commercial terms.
• Knowledge of, and experience in, broadcast, production, or digital media.
• A proven track record of managing and delivering projects to deadlines, and working independently, applying sound business judgement and pragmatism.
• Experience of analysing, evaluating, and presenting complex information clearly and effectively.

Benefits:

• A flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days.
• Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions).
• Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance, and accident benefit.
• BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen.