CRBA Manager Brands & Licensing
Description
Job Introduction
We invest in, and produce, ambitious content of the highest quality: stories which appeal to audiences in the UK and around the world. We’re able to take an idea from thought to screen and beyond, with activities ranging from programme making through to global content sales, channels and streaming.
Our Brands & Licensing division is responsible for the promotion of our brands and the exploitation of those brands through the licensing of various consumer products and events such as merchandise, books, DVDs, magazines, shows, music (and their digital equivalents) and social video, interactive games and virtual reality experiences.
We support the BBC’s licence fee with investment in programmes, and cash dividends paid from our profits: we receive no public funds.
Led by CEO Tom Fussell, we have a proven track record of growth, and are ambitious for the future. As we grow, we are actively transforming our culture, investing in our employees and our ways of working, to build a bold, agile, inventive and inclusive business.
Working as a key member of a team of Business Affairs and Legal advisors you shall provide support to the Brands & Licensing Division of BBC Studios Distribution. There will be a particular focus on digital matters, such as games and other interactive consumer products, online publishing and social media partnerships.
Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities
- Supporting the relevant teams with their priorities and objectives in a fast moving, technology driven market, working closely with relevant stakeholders across BBC Studios.
- Provide advice and draft and negotiate legal documentation in connection with a variety of media and technology deals including licensing arrangements with digital platforms and device / console manufacturers; brand and content licences with a particular focus on games and interactive products; agreements covering the development and publication of apps, video games and other interactive products across all formats and platforms including innovative new technologies such as VR/AR/XR, NFTs, Web3 and the Metaverse; magazine, podcast and website licensing, publishing and monetisation including advertising and sponsorship agreements, brand and commercial partnerships, production services agreements and some editorial compliance work; other technology related agreements to support the operation of BBC Studios’ digital products, platforms and services as required
- Proactively manage and drive forward deals and projects. Liaise with other internal teams as necessary, for example: editorial and regulatory affairs; data privacy and information security; brand protection, rights clearances; talent accounting; tax and finance.
- Help revise and develop precedents, training and advice notes to the business to support the Brands and Licensing division’s transactions and processes.
Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
- Contract negotiation and drafting in a fast paced technology driven environment
- Commercial acumen
- Project management
- Problem solving
- Good communicator
- Team working with excellent interpersonal skills to enable the post holder to establish credibility and effective working relationships with senior internal and external contacts.
- Strong self-motivation and organisation
- Ability to remain confident and assured in difficult circumstances, and to possess the resilience and stamina to sustain performance, particularly when under pressure
- Enthusiastic
- Genuine interest in media and technology
Education
- UK qualified lawyer with a media or technology law background with PQE NQ – 3 years.
Professional Experience
- Trained at a highly respected law firm, media or technology organisation.
- Experience in some (or all) of the following areas is not essential but preferred: mobile app and video game development and publishing; content and brand licensing; technology arrangements (including SaaS, Ad tech and data platforms and services) magazine, podcast and website publishing and monetisation; advertising, sponsorship and brand partnerships, digital media and social video content creation and licensing, defamation and pre-publication clearance work including advising on advertising regulations and data privacy.
- Excellent understanding of English contract law, data privacy, IP law and copyright.
- Previous in house experience is preferred but not essential
Job Impact
Working with senior legal and business affairs staff, responsible for assisting in the support of the Brands & Licensing division and the substantial and varied business operations in that area, facing complex and difficult legal issues and analysing and interpreting these issues in a timely fashion to advise the business how best to take account of them in its operations.
Success in the role will be measured by the extent to which matters are completed in a timely manner and risks are proportionately and effectively mitigated while meeting the priorities and objectives of the Brands and Licensing division.
The implications of this role in decision making and effective and timely negotiation are important to the overall profitability of the business.
Relationships
Post Holder Will Have a Strong Working Relationship With
- Senior Lawyer, Publishing, Games & Interactive
- Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Consumer Products & Licensing
Other Key Relationships For This Role Include
- Publishing, Games and Interactive commercial and editorial teams;
- Colleagues in the Brands & Licensing Business and Legal Affairs team;
- The BBC Studios Regulatory Affairs team in respect of all policy related issues relating to the promotion and exploitation of BBCS brands (including privacy and data related issues).
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**Overview** Bold. British. Creative: that’s BBC Studios. Combining the strengths of the UK’s most-awarded production company with a world-class distributor, we fund, create, distribute and commercialise world-class content for the BBC and other UK and international companies. Our aim is to inspire audiences around the globe with quality content that informs, educates and entertains and to strengthen the BBC, our partners and wider industry both creatively and financially. In the last financial year we achieved revenues of £1.4 billion and returned a record £276 million to the BBC Group, equivalent to around 12% of BBC Content’s total programme spend. We also won 73 awards and secured over 200 nominations. BBC Studios Production was the UK’s most commissioned producer of new content in 2019. We seek to be the best British content company in the world; a first-choice partner and employer, where everyone can flourish and do their best work.