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A wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, BBC Studios is a global creative powerhouse for the development, production, and distribution of bold, British content. We produce over 2,500 hours of content per year, have offices in 22 markets globally, including six production bases in the UK and production bases and partnerships in a further nine countries around the world. The business generates revenue of £1.4bn, returning around £200m profit to BBC Public Service each year. In the UK, BBC Studios enables audiences to enjoy their favourite BBC programmes and brands outside the licence fee-funded window on alternative platforms, through a range of partnerships, and in multiple formats, from products and magazines to events and experiences.

Are you a well-organised, self-starter, passionate, and looking for a career-building opportunity? We have a rare opportunity for a Sales Support Executive to provide administrative support to our Global Formats Sales Team and build relationships with our key stakeholders across various divisions at BBC Studios as well as our teams within International Production & Formats.

BBC Studios International Production & Formats (IP&F) division produces and distributes formatted content around the world and creates original programming in its international production bases. Our teams are based in 12 global markets, taking the best of British content from both the UK BBC Studios production arm, as well as several independent UK and international production companies to produce and distribute it to the world.

Our Factual and Entertainment successes include Dancing with the Stars (known in the UK as Strictly Come Dancing which is licensed to 60 territories), Love Productions’ Great Bake Off (licensed to over 40 territories), and Weakest Link (licensed in more than 45 territories, most recently returning to screens on NBC in the USA hosted by Jane Lynch and the UK with Romesh Ranganathan). We are also one of the top growing scripted format production and distribution teams, with localised versions of hit shows like Doctor Foster, The Office, Luther, and Criminal Justice now remade in places as far as France, Korea, the USA, and India.

Administrative support: Provide administrative support to the members of the Global Format Sales team, with a focus on sale and contract processing for teams in both the UK and internationally, with focus on Asia, the Netherlands, and Belgium among others. This will include leading internal sales processes, liaising with internal teams to produce monthly reports, providing information on distribution of rights and securing sale approvals, maintaining accurate records, liaising with the wider creative network teams, and being proactive in developing market knowledge and insights in the broadcast/media industry to support the Global Format Sales team and identify sales opportunities.

System Maintenance: Support the Global Format Sales Teams to ensure appropriate systems, (Salesforce, Rightsline, and others), are always up to date with accurate information, including contract processing and customer data management.

Customer coordination: Liaise across several internal functions, ensuring the clients’ smooth transition through the end-to-end sales process, provide successful after-sales care service, and actively promote the BBC Studios customer website and dedicated online formats catalogue to clients. Lead and manage the processing of client attendance for BBC Studios and industry trade events which may include diary management for these client events and distributing marketing updates to clients within the territory.

• Excellent organisation and administration skills, ability to prioritise and demonstrate high attention to detail, and concern for accuracy.
• Ability to cope well under pressure in a busy sales environment and experience in using Salesforce or similar.
• Proactive and demonstrable initiative.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills, and ability to deal with people, both internally and externally, at all levels.
• Excellent IT Skills in MS Office systems e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and need to be able to understand new systems quickly.
• Languages other than English useful but not essential.
• A passion, interest and understanding of the television media industry would be an advantage.

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The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from under represented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background. We strive to be the best British content company in the world, attracting the best creative talents in the business, so that we can bring premium quality award-winning programmes, content and brands to the viewer no matter where they are.

The BBC Group has set out the first in a new series of bold steps to transform our programming and better represent the public we serve. We have the biggest financial investment to on-air inclusion in the industry, together with our existing commissioning budget, we are committed to throwing open our doors more widely than ever to diverse stories and diverse storytellers. Together with a diverse workforce we will accelerate the pace of change in increasing diversity and inclusion both on and off air

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please visit our website.

Band: B
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: London

Working Pattern: Hybrid Working (Home-based plus two/three days a week in the office)

We are really proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and so if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please do contact us at [email protected] with the job reference in the subject. We advertise all our roles on Evenbreak, the specialist job board for disabled candidates

• Flexible/agile working - opportunities across the business. We’re happy to discuss a formal flexible working pattern. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at the offer stage.
• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certifications.
• Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.