Senior Business & Legal Affairs Manager - Bristol

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JOB DETAILS  JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent - Full-time

LOCATION:

Bridgewater House, Bristol. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will need to be present in the office (at least 2+ days per week) We are ideally looking for someone to be located in Bristol, or willing to commute.
DEPARTMENT:  Natural History Unit - Legal
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £80,000-£95,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience, plus 15% bonus. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
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.
WHY JOIN OUR TEAM:
BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is the best-known and most loved producer of natural history content in the world, responsible for some of the most globally successful factual content of the past 10 years. The NHU's programmes have come to represent the gold standard for natural history filmmaking, winning multiple awards and honours.
The NHU's BBC output includes everything from breath-taking landmarks (Frozen Planet II; The Green Planet; Seven Worlds, One Planet; Dynasties II; Blue Planet II; Planet Earth II), to returning series and technically challenging live shows (Spring watch; Blue Planet Live) and award-winning children's series (Andy's Safari Adventures). The NHU also has an increasingly diverse portfolio of content that we make for third parties, such as Prehistoric Planet for Apple

TV+ Original series, The Americas for NBCU and Ocean Xplorers, a co-production with Ocean

X Media and James Cameron, for National Geographic Disney+.
The NHU is now part of an exciting new Unscripted group within BBC Studios, which also includes the Factual production teams that make Religion, Science, Docs and other specialist Factual programming alongside Entertainment Productions

PURPOSE OF

THE ROLE
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the NHU's Business and Legal Affairs team as Senior Business and Legal Affairs Manager. This role is to be based in Bristol and will be responsible for the provision of business affairs advice and support across the Natural History Unit's varied and award-winning slate.
YOUR

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
Negotiate and draft a wide range of complex unscripted production and development agreements, including but not limited to key on-screen talent, linear/SVOD commissioning, co-development, co-production, funding and other rights agreements.
Anticipate and mitigate legal, financial, reputational and business risk while at the same time offering strategies or alternative ideas to resolve them;
Be a principal point of contact for the production areas you support, and deliver timely and high quality legal and business affairs advice in order to maximise the opportunity for the business to deliver on its goals;
Manage a broad workload autonomously, referring upwards as required.
Propose and deliver structures for complicated rights and commercial deals in unscripted production and development, and understand and implement commercial and business strategies;
Offer senior support to the Head of Business and Legal Affairs, including deputising when required;
Provide line management and/or supervision support to the Business Affairs Managers, Executives and Assistants on the array of unscripted production agreements that they work on day-to-day;
Form excellent working relationships with the production teams that you support in order that you become a trusted advisor to those teams who can depend on you for timely and high quality advice;
Create…