# Creative Partnerships Lead (Maternity Cover)

**Company**: BBC Studios
**Location**: London, GBR
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: Competitive salary depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London-Creative-Partnerships-Lead-W12-7FA/1375730457/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Creative Partnerships Lead in BBC Studios Audio, on a nine-month maternity cover contract reporting to the Head of Commercial Partnerships.

The role is the bridge between commercial, ad sales, and production. It owns our creative solutions (network reads, host reads, and branded content), advertising compliance, and brand safety, and will equip our sales partners – particularly in the US – with the storytelling, materials, and creative thinking they need to sell our slate with confidence and turn client briefs into standout partnerships.

**Your Key Responsibilities and Impact:**

- Work with the Head of Commercial Partnerships and the Senior Commercial Lead to deliver our creative partnerships and advertising strategy, driving revenue growth across the BBC Studios Audio slate.

- Own all creative solutions (network reads, host reads, and branded content) end to end – writing and adapting scripts, briefing voice artists and production teams, and managing recordings, edits, costings, and delivery against agreed KPIs.

- Review and approve all advertising, sponsorship, and host-read scripts against BBC Advertising and Sponsorship guidelines and Ofcom rules, proposing compliant alternatives and managing compliance incidents and complaints through to resolution.

- Maintain the compliance framework and client-facing brand safety materials, monitor brand safety settings on our ad tech platform, and ensure production processes cover the responsible use of AI and music licensing.

- Act as the go-to expert for ad sales partners on what can and cannot be sold across markets – onboarding new partners, managing the advertising product set, pricing and inventory, and overseeing deliveries from booking to proof of delivery.

- Equip our sales partners to win business – primarily in the US, alongside EMEA, APAC, and LATAM – by leading the development of go-to-market collateral that brings our slate and new launches to life through compelling creative storytelling.

- Champion our slate with agencies and brands, originating direct creative partnership opportunities through your own network and responding to incoming briefs with standout ideas, from branded segments to full branded podcasts.

- Act as the single point of contact for production teams on commercial requests, translating sales commitments into clear production briefs, and provide commercial input on new and transferring titles and co-production deals, including reach projections and investment risk.

**Your Skills and Experience:**

- Proven experience of delivering creative advertising solutions (e.g., host reads, sponsorship, or branded content) in podcasting, audio, broadcast, or digital media.

- A strong network of agency and brand contacts, with a track record of originating new partnership opportunities.

- A natural storyteller, with experience of creating persuasive sales collateral and pitch materials.

- Strong working knowledge of advertising compliance and brand safety (e.g., BBC Advertising guidelines, Ofcom, CAP/BCAP codes).

- Proven experience of working with production teams and talent, with a demonstrable understanding of their needs.

- Highly organised and a confident communicator, able to manage multiple campaigns, deadlines, and budgets alongside complex stakeholder relationships.

**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.

- Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.

## Skills

### Required
- creative advertising solutions
- brand safety
- compliance
- storytelling
- sales collateral
- pitch materials
- production teams
- talent management
- campaign management
- budgeting
- stakeholder relationships

### Nice to have
- branded podcast production
- ad tech
- dynamic ad insertion platforms
- US advertising market
- matrix organisation

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Source: [Apply at careers.bbc.co.uk](https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London-Creative-Partnerships-Lead-W12-7FA/1375730457/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)