Commissioning Editor, Drama

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: F
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Drama Commissioning
LOCATION: London Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to 200000

Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Were seeking a highly experienced individual to join our team as a Commissioning Editor and play a key part in delivering our strategy. You would be working across the unparalleled breadth of content that the department produces from recent successes like The Night Manager Waiting For The Out and Riot Women to knock out classic ratings winners like Line of Duty to schedule backbones Silent Witness EastEnders Death in Paradise Call The Midwife and much more.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The BBC is the home of world-class UK drama producing a vast array of distinctive high-quality programming with unrivalled reach across our broad range of platforms. We commission more Drama than anyone else in the UK nurturing and developing exciting new voices as well as collaborating with the very best household names. We are passionate about portraying the extraordinary variety of life in Britain today and we commission entertaining thought-provoking and surprising stories that inspire our viewers across the whole of the UK.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

You will work closely with the Commissioning Director to deliver and commission a broad range of diverse and innovative drama content from suppliers balancing editorial excellence with compliance and budgetary requirements and ensuring the commissioned content is strategically aligned to the genre/channels vision and high ambitions.

Selected responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to a focused development pipeline encouraging a risk-taking and innovative approach to ideas development and to deliver on the concept for the channel/genre.
• Input into the development of the Drama commissioning strategy
• Enabling creativity and fostering an innovative approach to new drama content at the BBC.
• Being the editorial contact for suppliers and/or co-producers on specific titles responsible for fostering and managing those relationships in line with the BBCs strategy including monitoring progress giving constructive feedback and ensuring timely and cost-efficient delivery.
• Ensuring that editorial content complies with the BBCs editorial standards and guidelines and other key policies.
• Maintaining an awareness of exciting new emerging and diverse voices across the UK using your own experience to attract the very best of the UKs writers and producers to the BBC to produce exceptional content for our audiences.
• Building positive relationships with producers partners and contributors across and beyond the BBC.
• Building strong relationships across the BBC to ensure pan-platform delivery of the channel/genre strategy and contribute to wider BBC and content strategies.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

This is an opportunity for someone who either has significant experience of commissioning and has been accountable for all aspects of the end-to-end commissioning process from managing their own slate through development and production to delivery compliance and marketing managing complex relationships across multiple projects at any one time - or someone who is an editorial professional with significant experience of either executive producing or producing several shows being ultimately accountable for delivery and quality within budget. The ideal candidate should demonstrate the following key skills and experience:

• Significant drama commissioning and content making experience either as a producer executive producer or commissioner on HETV drama for a streamer or PSB
• A substantial record of realising and leading creative ideas from start through to commission and delivery working within defined resources and demanding deadlines juggling multiple ideas at a time and managing multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Significant understanding of current trends and issues within the broadcasting industry and the drama landscape specifically
• Outstanding communication skills and ability to foster good relationships with a wide range of internal and external contacts with the ability to deliver feedback to promote creative development.
• Sound editorial judgment coupled with the ability to devise and develop new ideas and foster creativity in others.
• Demonstrable experience of thinking strategically about programmes and their scheduling and the ability to contribute towards strategy for the channel/department.
• Audience focused in approach aware of trends topical issues and gaps in our output.
• Evidence of a commitment to creating diverse content and to the BBCs diversity strategy and policies.
• Significant experience and knowledge of managing creative delivery within financial budgets.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisations interest goals and values first ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity adapts quickly and simplifies complexity. They balance short-term actions with long-term impact take full accountability for actions and decision-making and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future.