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Senior Business & Legal Affairs Manager

United Kingdom, London 100000.00 GBP / Year · Job Posted May 14, 2026

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We have an exciting opportunity in our Entertainment production Business and Legal Affairs team as Senior Business and Legal Affairs Manager.

Job Responsibility

  • 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
  • Form excellent working relationships with other parts of BBC Studios and BBC Public Service, as well as with key external contacts

Requirements

  • Qualified lawyer (or similar legal qualification) with an appropriate level of PQE to be able to effectively carry out the job responsibilities
  • Significant experience in (i) complex drafting and negotiation of a variety of television production rights agreements and (ii) advising upon and managing risk
  • Highly business-oriented operating with a commercial approach, with recent experience of working in a commercial organisation
  • Adept at dealing with disagreements and helping to devise solutions where trade-offs are involved
  • Proven experience in line management

Nice to have

  • Experience in negotiating complex unscripted television production agreements, such as commissioning agreements with global streaming platforms (eg Netflix, Amazon or Apple) and co-development/co-production agreements
  • A passion for Media

What we offer

  • A flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days
  • Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions)
  • Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance and accident benefit
  • London Weighting Allowance of £5,441
  • 15% Bonus OTE

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