Operations Executive

British Broadcasting Corporation; Salford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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• Location: Quay House, Salford and on location as required.
• Salary: Up to £80,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
• Contract type: Permanent role

Package Description

• Job Reference: 22269
• Band: E
• Location: Quay House, Salford and on location as required.
• Salary: Up to £80,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
• Contract type: Permanent role

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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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Job Introduction

We’re thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for an Operations Executive in Outside Broadcast Technical Management. In this role, you’ll collaborate with editorial teams, production management, and third-party facility suppliers to deliver a wide range of outside broadcasts. From small, single-camera setups to large-scale, high-profile events like the FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games, you’ll play a key part in ensuring smooth operations across diverse productions.

Main Responsibilities

• Collaborative Relationships: Build and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with third-party Outside Broadcast facility suppliers, connectivity providers, and internal stakeholders within BBC Sport and across the wider BBC teams.
• Industry Awareness & Knowledge Sharing: Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technological advancements, and best practices. Share your expertise and experiences with colleagues to foster continuous learning and innovation within the team.
• Sustainability Focus: Work towards achieving sustainability targets within your operations, ensuring that all projects align with BBC Sports goals and practices.
• Representation & External Relationships: Represent BBC Sport in interactions with sporting governing bodies, third-party broadcasters, and other external partners, ensuring positive and effective relationships that support the delivery of high-quality broadcasts.
• Procurement & Proposal Writing: Collaborate with production management to procure third-party suppliers, including drafting and managing Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to ensure that supplier selection meets both operational and financial requirements.
• Team Leadership on Location: Lead teams working on location, ensuring effective coordination and seamless execution of broadcast operations during live events and on-site productions.

Are you the right candidate?You Will Have

• Significant experience in a similar role within a large matrix organisation.
• Proven experience and thorough knowledge of the Outside Broadcast industry with a strong operational or engineering background.
• Excellent knowledge of the legislation, regulatory and health and safety framework within which OBs have to work.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills.
• Extensive experience of using business systems.
• Financial skills and proven ability to manage budgets and scheduling resources.
• Experience of working collaboratively with stakeholders.

About The BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution