Partnerships Associate at BBC

As Partnerships Associate you will work with the BBC’s external partners to build productive relationships and help ensure that the audience can enjoy our services across a diverse range of outlets and platforms. You will support the implementation of the partnership strategic plan. 

You will work internally with multiple stakeholders and help prepare business cases and papers for the Portfolio Management Committee and other internal boards. You will also love working in a team environment and contributing to projects across the business.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Representing the BBC service to external partnerships and being a key ongoing point of liaison for partners in the required territories 
• Working closely with BBC stakeholders including editorial to propose solutions that provide optimum routes to market for BBC service requirements
• Supporting projects to develop new and existing BBC services, working with project team members across the BBC and partners, ensuring compliant and timely delivery
• Manage third parties and the BBC’s partners to ensure distribution needs are met.  Identify areas of opportunity and risk for the BBC, and advise the Partnerships Team’s leadership as required
• Monitor partner performance against BBC requirements, proposing corrective action to BD leadership
• Develop media market knowledge and contribute to development of BBC distribution strategy across broadcast and IP, advising partnerships team’s leadership
• Contributing to business cases for the Portfolio Management Committee and other boards as required  

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Relevant media market experience with a proven track record of achievement in the media sector, including hands on experience working with digital media platforms and partnerships
• Understanding of the content delivery landscape (broadcasting and IP) and the BBC’s position in it, and the strategic importance of the distribution business
• Influencing and diplomatic skills, able to build trusting, productive relationships with contacts inside and outside the organisation.  Good persuasion and negotiation skills.  Experience of informing strategy
• Basic understanding and experience of legal terminology and contract principles, negotiation and practices.  Project management skills and experience of major projects and programmes
• Digitally fluent, with strong skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Canva, AI enabled productivity tools, and Salesforce for data management, reporting, and pipeline tracking.