Job Title: Planning Executive
In 2025, Channel 5 and My5 are joining forces under one powerful new brand: 5 – delivering an all-new, unified experience across TV, streaming, and digital platforms. We’re looking for hardworking individuals to help craft this next chapter. This unified brand will revolutionise TV, streaming, and digital platforms, offering expanded free streaming services, more UK drama originals, and specially curated FAST channels.
With personalisation and groundbreaking, data‑driven advertising solutions, 5 is set to lead the future of entertainment. After an impressive year of industry‑leading growth, including a 40% surge in viewership in 2024, 5 is gearing up to transform the viewing experience—and we want you to be part of it!
Help us build a brand that delivers unlimited entertainment, always free. Join the team driving the 5 relaunch and shape the future of how the world watches.
What will you be doing?
* Managing the planning schedule for a nominated channel or channels, ensuring that all aspects of the schedule are accurate and accounted for.
* Inputting a forward planning schedule into What’s On working with the Channel Director.
* Acting as a central point of contact for planning related queries.
* Informing relevant internal personnel and listings of all schedule changes made within issued weeks.
* Maintaining a strong knowledge of Paramount and the C5 portfolio of schedules and those of our competitors.
* Overseeing all press day responsibilities for the nominated channel(s).
* Actioning Billings & Pre-Press emails.
* Ensuring month-end data is up to date for Finance as well as quarterly schedule insertion into WON for Channel Directors.
* Ensuring all programme rights are accurately adhered to.
* When required by the Planning Manager, representing Planning at various company meetings and project work.
* Creation and maintenance of Standby Lists for the nominated channel(s).
* Coordinating between Programming, Sales & Presentation regarding schedule related matters.
* Testing & Development of systems for programme planning.
* Out of Hours contact for the Channel 5 portfolio.
* Deputising for the Channel Manager / Channel Director and providing day-to-day support across all key planning & scheduling functions when necessary.
* Viewing future programmes and giving insight to the Channel Manager / Channel Director / Acquisitions.
* Ensuring nominated schedules are ready to send to Sales on a monthly basis.
* Accurate maintenance of all series linking across nominated channel(s).
* Daily & Weekly EPG maintenance for the nominated channel(s).
* Responding to external and internal billings queries.
* Ensuring all content on the nominated channel is compliant with Watershed rules and internal compliance instructions.
Additional support responsibilities
* Maintenance of the Milkshake! schedule input.
* Programme Version Changes as specified from Broadcast Operations.
* Monthly Teleshopping rotations across all channels.
What are we looking for?
* Previous experience of programme planning at a broadcaster is preferred but not essential.
* A genuine interest and passion for TV and TV scheduling.
* Strong communicator and confident working with other departments.
* Ability to demonstrate a general understanding of TV schedules.
* Strong IT skills including Excel and the ability to quickly pick up new systems.
* Demonstrated numeracy ability.
Channel 5 is an award‑winning public service broadcaster and the UK's third latest commercial TV station, reaching 3 in 4 of the UK viewing public each month. The channel has a diverse schedule of original programmes across genres including issue‑led documentaries, popular factual, accessible history, stunning natural history, inclusive entertainment and reality, top‑level sport, high quality scripted programming, headline‑grabbing current affairs and critically acclaimed children’s and news programming. Channel 5 is a unit of Paramount Global.
Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on‑screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and veteran status.
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