# Commercial Rights & Business Affairs Manager

**Company**: BBC Studios
**Location**: London, GBR
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £50,000 - £70,000 per annum
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment

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## Description

We are seeking a Commercial Rights & Business Affairs Manager to join our team at BBC Studios in London.

The role involves acting as a principal point of advice and direction for the business and Legal Affairs team, representing BBC Studios boards when required, and managing a wide range of legal and Business Affairs activities throughout various stages of production.

Responsibilities include:

- Developing and implementing strategies and business frameworks to secure competitive commercial deals

- Forging excellent relationships across legal teams and the wider business

- Negotiating global commissioning deals and advising on challenging deals

- Advising on business affairs, including production risks, legal and commercial risks, and editorial policy and compliance issues

- Managing and overseeing risk compliance with frameworks for global commissioning deals

- Representing Business & Legal Affairs at a senior level with authority, credibility, and diplomacy

Requirements:

- Legal qualifications

- Experience of negotiating content contracts and securing competitive terms with commissioners

- Comprehensive knowledge of the legal and commercial issues associated with producing content for commissioners

- Highly business-oriented with a commercial approach

- Adept at dealing with conflicts and devising solutions

Desirable skills:

- Knowledge of, and experience in, television content production

- Experience of innovating and leading change in a complex, competitive environment

In return, we offer a salary between £50,000 - £70,000 per annum, a London Weighting Allowance of £5,319, and a range of benefits including a flexible 35-hour working week, 26 days annual leave, and a defined pension scheme.

This role is part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people, and we encourage applications from those who identify as deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent.

## Skills

### Required
- legal qualifications
- content contract negotiation
- commercial awareness
- conflict resolution

### Nice to have
- television content production
- change management

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