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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is one of the finest orchestras in the UK. Based in Glasgow, it is part of the BBC’s family of orchestras, broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3, BBC TV and online, and performs live around Scotland, the UK, at the BBC Proms each year and tours internationally. The orchestra’s Chief Conductor is Ryan Wigglesworth, and the orchestra has a strong reputation for exceptional and versatile playing, commitment to contemporary music and a willingness to experiment.

The BBC SSO is seeking an accomplished and experienced Marketing Manager to lead the marketing and communications team of this exceptional orchestra in the vibrant and busy BBC music environment.

This is a permanent post and an excellent opportunity for a candidate who has a proven track record in music or performing arts marketing, audience development and communications.

Please see the full job description to see the full scope of duties.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• An excellent knowledge of arts marketing, with substantial experience of devising and implementing marketing campaigns, and managing and developing consumer brands using advanced marketing techniques.
• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research techniques as well as experience of creating innovative digital and social media campaigns within the media or an industry of similar scale and impact
• Experience of leading team members to manage delivery through agency resources.
• Proven ability to transform creative ideas into practical reality
• Able to look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative solutions.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people including all players and management team, wider BBC colleagues, conductors, artists and agents
• Ability to work co-operatively with others as part of a wider team.
• Ability to handle confidential information with tact and sensitivity, and the ability to apply discretion and diplomacy.
• Excellent planning and organising skills are key – you will need the ability to think ahead in order to establish effective and appropriate course of action, taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines and resource requirements.
• You will need to be committed to improving and understanding diversity, with the ability to articulate how individual differences can benefit the BBC.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Band: D
Contract type: Continuing contract
Location: City Halls, Glasgow

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. 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 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 certification.
• Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of 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.