Description
Join BBC Studios as a Senior Production Coordinator, providing expert production management support across a portfolio of productions from commissioning through to final delivery.
Working closely with production teams, suppliers, and stakeholders, you'll play a key role in ensuring productions are delivered on time, within budget, and in line with BBC standards, while driving operational excellence, continuous improvement, and best practice across the production lifecycle.
Your key responsibilities and impact:
- Coordinate multiple productions simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery, budget control, and compliance with BBC policies, frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
- Support production planning, scheduling, resource management, and operational delivery, helping teams overcome challenges and maintain efficient workflows.
- Monitor production budgets, manage financial administration and supplier processes, ensuring accurate cost tracking and value for money.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, resolving issues and supporting successful delivery outcomes.
- Act as a source of expertise on production systems, processes, and best practice, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and supporting colleagues' development through guidance and knowledge sharing.
Essential criteria:
- Proven experience in production coordination or production management, supporting multiple productions or projects within a fast-paced environment.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end production delivery, including planning, scheduling, operational coordination, and meeting deadlines within budget.
- Experience managing production finances, including budgeting, forecasting, purchase orders, quotations, and cost monitoring.
- Excellent organisational, communication, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems, improve processes, manage competing priorities, and support colleagues through advice, guidance, and knowledge sharing.
Desired but not required:
- Experience working within a broadcast, media, or content production environment.
- Knowledge of accessibility and content delivery workflows, including subtitling, audio description, or related services.
- Experience managing supplier relationships and supporting commercial decision-making.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or developing junior production colleagues.
- Understanding of sustainable production practices and initiatives that reduce environmental impact.
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.