Productivity AI Lead

Creating the Extraordinary, Together.

Fremantle is a powerhouse of the TV and Film industry. We are one of the world’s largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of Entertainment, Drama & Film and Documentaries.

From critically acclaimed dramas like The Responder, starring Martin Freeman, award winning films including Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar nominated The Hand of God to incredible entertainment like The Rap Game, Too Hot to Handle, The Apprentice and Britain’s Got Talent, we make shows with global appeal.

Our purpose

We are driven by a shared purpose of Creating the Extraordinary, Together. We tell stories that connect people around the world, reflecting and celebrating the diversity of the world we live in. Through compelling, irresistible entertainment, we aim to engage and inspire our audiences. To achieve this, we bring together people from all backgrounds and cultures, both in our teams and on our shows.

We are committed to creating opportunities for talent by being inclusive in all that we do.

Job overview

This is an exciting role within Fremantle, to see how people are using AI in their everyday roles, and then work to increase adoption across all back office functions. We know that the organisations getting value from AI are not the ones with the best models, they are the ones who redesign workflows, put a named owner and budget behind adoption, build a visible role-modelling network, and track impact centrally.

This is exactly what we want from this role.

We want to find those pockets of experimentation across the business, test the usefulness and then get them embedded into other teams to drive efficiencies. This role is all about processes, understanding them, and then helping back office teams (not production) work smarter

This is a hands‑on lead, not a purely strategic or programme role. The postholder needs a data background and the technical credibility to build alongside others in the business - prototyping agents, using AI‑assisted coding to stand up working tools quickly, and automating solutions themselves.

Direct reports
: AI Productivity Executive, AI Productivity Co‑ordinator

Here you will get to
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Champion network & governance

• Initiates a monthly AI Productivity meeting with nominated champions from key head‑office functions (Finance, Marketing, Legal, Comms and others) and communicates with local leads — one network where ideas and decisions get made and shared (Head Office Functional Productivity Group).
• Builds and chairs a fortnightly Head Office Productivity Working Group with IT, L&D, the Show Data Product Lead, Productivity & Data Infrastructure and the Group Finance AI Lead — unifying the key central areas responsible for productivity and AI, and coordinating one approach to the adoption of tools and practices.

Business partnership & implementation

• Acts as the main point of contact between central productivity capability and the business, discussing with teams what they need, and taking proven solutions from one team and implementing them in others rather than leaving good ideas isolated.
• Works closely with Production AI Heads to keep central best practice and production‑facing AI work aligned rather than running as two disconnected efforts.
• Works with the Bertelsmann AI Hub to bring in and push through useful training and tools, rather than duplicating effort already available at group level.

Tooling, automation & the technology roadmap

• Partners with IT to ensure the right tools are in the hands of the right people for the right tasks, owning the productivity tooling roadmap and preventing duplicate or shadow purchasing across labels.
• Sets the strategic direction for automation and agentic workflows as part of the…