PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
This role isn’t just about revenue, it’s about shaping culture. By putting fandom first and forging partnerships with creators and studios, you’ll help BBC Studios tap into new communities, amplify voices, and deliver content that resonates globally. You’ll also drive cross-divisional collaboration, ensuring an integrated approach to commercialising content across every window.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM?
This is a pivotal moment for BBC Studios Digital. We’re riding a wave of momentum, expanding our global footprint, and redefining how our brands thrive across social and digital platforms. Joining now means stepping into the heart of transformation - where strategy meets creativity, and where your leadership will directly shape the growth of our business brand worldwide.
Momentum is on our side. Joining now means stepping into a leadership role that will accelerate growth, expand partnerships, and leave a lasting mark on how audiences engage with BBC content worldwide. Together, we’ll build a future where fandom fuels strategy, creators drive innovation, and BBC Studios thrives at the heart of digital culture.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
- Champion fandom-first strategy: Put audiences at the heart of every decision, building experiences that spark passion and loyalty
- Define and deliver commercial strategy across social and digital platforms, unlocking new opportunities and maximising profitability
- Build out our stable of partnerships: Collaborate with creators, studios, and digital platforms to expand reach, drive innovation, and cement BBC Studios as a leader in the creator economy
- Lead the charge on commercialisation: Set the vision, drive execution, and measure impact across the busines
- Elevate global relationships with social and digital partners, ensuring BBC Studios is front and centre in the digital landscape
YOUR KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA :
- Demonstrable experience of having successfully led, motivated and developed a team of digital focussed commercial and marketing professionals
- Possesses a strong understanding of the Social and Digital publishing sector and BBC competitors, and the relevant in-depth knowledge of current global industry trends and issues relating to their functional area.
- A collaborative style and someone who is comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working in a matrixed organisation with a significant amount of stakeholder management, and who can work well under pressure
- Able to collaborate across organisational boundaries, embrace change, and make improvements to working practices.
- A mix of strong commercial skills, and creative instinct who can represent the world leading IP and storytelling capability BBC
DESIRED NOT REQUIRED
- A senior leader - good at talent attraction, development, culture, empowerment, motivation and being clear, fair and inclusive; bringing multiple disciplines together in ways which achieve outstanding results.
- A deep functional/technical expert with broad and comprehensive understanding of theories, systems and practices.
- Demonstrable experience of using data from multiple platforms to drive decision making and efficiency.
- Excellent senior stakeholder management skills, able to build rapport and credible, trusted and strong working relationships.
- Proven ability to turn strategy into action and lead a team to operationally deliver against stretching targets and priorities
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