VP, Digital Growth & Strategy

Job Details

JOB BAND: F
CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time Perm
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios
LOCATION: London
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £140,000-£155,000 + London Weighting (£5,441) + 25% Bonus, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We are BBC Studios

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world's most sought-after TV, audio and digital content. Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world. BBC Studios Digital don't just reach audiences - we move them. As an award-winning department, we cultivate and amplify fandoms behind some of the world's most iconic franchises, including Bluey, BBC Earth, Doctor Who, and Gen Z comedy channel Funny Parts. We run over 90 channels generating 15 billion views each year, encouraging audiences to watch wherever and whenever they choose.

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 business
• Elevate global relationships with social and digital partners, ensuring BBC Studios is front and centre in the digital landscape

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 Skills (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

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclaimer

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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC Studios

• 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. Find out more about BBC Group's science based Net Zero targets here.
• Career development in a values led purpose driven culture.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability Confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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