Senior Strategy Manager

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BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.

We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows like Strictly Come Dancing, Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet, and the latest BBC documentary from our awarded Natural History Unit, Asia. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.

From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content.

BBC Studios is the principal commercial subsidiary of the BBC, with multiple lines of business delivering a turnover of over £2billion. It aims to bring customers and audiences across the world distinctive and high quality content covering a range of specialisms, through a unique combination of BBC editorial values, cutting-edge craft and access to diverse talent from all markets.

BBC Studios Productions, is the main originator and producer of content for BBC Studios and the biggest supplier of programming to BBC channels and services. Creating content through its production units, wholly-owned production labels and invested indies, BBC Studios is able to take an idea from thought to screen and beyond

Spanning the full breadth of specialisms, we have an enviable portfolio of content and expertise which has delivered genre-defining content to commissioners and co-production partners all over the globe. Our five genre pillars - in Factual, Scripted, Global Entertainment, Kids & Family and Audio - boast an impressive range of market-leading production units, labels and indie partners whose commitment and capabilities in bringing world-class stories to global audiences is unparalleled.

To support Studios Production's leadership team in the development and execution of BBC Studios growth ambitions, ensuring BBCS Productions is set up to deliver against the growth strategy and planning requirements for global BBCS productions.

Specific Role responsibilities:

• Is accountable for the performance and delivery of specific project work, with autonomy to deliver the work with minimum supervision and when required.
• Provide in-depth research and analysis, from internal and external sources where appropriate, of financial, output, audience, scheduling, competitor, regulatory and operational considerations. Use qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques.
• Keep up to date with developments in broadcast media and related sectors. Develop strategies capable of managing the threats and opportunities that such developments represent.
• Analyse, model, and evaluate key growth initiatives across the production division and how they deliver on out of plan period growth.
• Support on Benchmarking annual market share and competitive landscapes.
• Collaborate across all content genres to understand and articulate each production's vision, translating it into compelling strategies for social media and digital platforms that align with Pan Studios' broader digital growth objectives.
• Support genre teams in identifying and developing new growth opportunities, with a focus on expanding into adjacent genres and emerging media formats.
• As needed, prepare presentations, reports, and strategic analysis for Senior Management.

• Present reviews and recommendations to senior stakeholders, verbally or in writing, as required.
• Ensure that such presentations are effective and persuasive through the use of a variety of techniques, for example, by using computer graphics to represent the findings of research.
• In agreement with Heads of Strategy or Director of Strategy, guide projects or modules shaping the production and genre group-level plans.
• Facilitate or manage ad-hoc project teams of senior stakeholders, ensuring that strategic issues are considered by such teams.
• Provide strategic and strategic finance assistance to senior management to enable the BBC Studios production division to maximize commercial growth.
• Build effective working relationships to produce joint recommendations with colleagues on strategic issues and new initiatives.
• Appreciation of the international and new media markets.
• Demonstratable experience of building dynamic strategic financial modelling.
• Present complex information in a simple view for wide ranging stakeholders.
• High quality and detailed analytics with ease.
• Substantial experience of data review including financial, budgeting and statistical data, with a good knowledge of relevant tools and methodologies.
• Able to anticipate the challenges and opportunities that arise from professional, legal, technological and marketplace changes and translate these into coherent strategy.
• Global mind-set: think Global, act Local.
• Transparency and creating a shared understanding of global team objectives and requirements.

Financial
No budget responsibilities.

Reports
No line management responsibilities.

Band: E

Location: London, UK

Contract: Fixed Term - 9 Months

Application Close: Sunday 1st June

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: , registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.