Description

Joining the BBC StoryWorks Programme Partnerships team means becoming part of a dynamic, award-winning group that’s redefining digital storytelling for global audiences. Since its launch in 2019, the team has grown rapidly to around 70 members across the UK and US, driven by a mission to blend the BBC’s rich storytelling heritage with industry expertise. We create original commercial content that explores the issues shaping society, partnering with global brands to deliver powerful narratives and measurable impact.
As a Production Executive, you’ll play a strategic leadership role—guiding content from concept to distribution while fostering innovation and continuous improvement. You’ll lead a talented production management team, shaping the future of how stories are told and helping drive meaningful change through compelling, purpose-driven content.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
Commissioning & Production Viability: Ensures commissioning requirements are fully understood to develop viable proposals, secures price approval from the Head of Production (or equivalent), and confirms delivery feasibility within proposed timeframes.
Operational Oversight & Compliance: Oversees production approval processes, aligning resources with editorial goals, and ensures compliance with BBC policies, guidelines, and legal requirements—particularly in health and safety, editorial policy, and environmental impact.
Financial Management: Accountable for setting, adjusting, and monitoring budgets across a portfolio, assessing financial viability of new content, and making decisions to manage financial and operational performance.
Team Leadership & Development: Leads and develops a diverse production team, identifying training needs, integrating safety and risk management into workflows, and ensuring consistent scheduling, budgeting, and delivery across productions.
Stakeholder Engagement & Commercial Strategy: Engages and negotiates with internal and external stakeholders and third-party suppliers to maximise commercial opportunities for the BBC, resolve issues, and implement effective solutions that align with strategic goals.

Requirements

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Extensive Industry knowledge including commerical branded content, competitors, audience trends, and commissioning procedures, with a strong understanding of production systems and emerging technologies.
Proven experience in production management across diverse genres and platforms, including co-productions and complex rights/funding models.
Advanced project and portfolio management, including strategic planning, troubleshooting, and delivering complex projects efficiently.
Strong operational expertise in health and safety, resource planning, and financial oversight to maximize production value.
Demonstrated ability to innovate, solve complex problems, and implement strategies that drive efficiency and change across production environments.
NEXT STEPS
We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

Benefits & Perks

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,000-£70,000 + London Weighting (£5,441)depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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**Overview** Bold. British. Creative: that’s BBC Studios. Combining the strengths of the UK’s most-awarded production company with a world-class distributor, we fund, create, distribute and commercialise world-class content for the BBC and other UK and international companies. Our aim is to inspire audiences around the globe with quality content that informs, educates and entertains and to strengthen the BBC, our partners and wider industry both creatively and financially. In the last financial year we achieved revenues of £1.4 billion and returned a record £276 million to the BBC Group, equivalent to around 12% of BBC Content’s total programme spend. We also won 73 awards and secured over 200 nominations. BBC Studios Production was the UK’s most commissioned producer of new content in 2019. We seek to be the best British content company in the world; a first-choice partner and employer, where everyone can flourish and do their best work.

Job Details

Posted on Aug 6

London, England, UK

Full time

Senior

€60K - €70K