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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: 9 month Fixed-term Contract, Full-time
DEPARTMENT:. BBC Studios
LOCATION: London – Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £48,000 - £60,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
WE ARE BBC STUDIOS
A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.
Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
This 9-month Fixed Term contract offers the chance to join a small, agile team focused on delivering and supporting the platform. The role spans analysing business requirements, testing with partners, and resolving platform issues. You'll also work on integrating with other products in the Product Group portfolio. The platform supports BBC Select, a Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) service that provides audiences access to hundreds of acclaimed documentaries available to stream anytime, anywhere.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
The BBC Studios Product Group manages a diverse digital product portfolio across B2B, D2C, and syndicated solutions across all major platforms. Features international brands like Top Gear, BBC Podcasts, Global News, and BBC Select. The team also leads several pioneering initiatives aimed at launching new products in 2025 and beyond.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
* Design and facilitate workshops, interviews and meetings with business stakeholders and their delegates to understand, capture and document existing business process and desired changes, using standard process modelling techniques to create the ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ picture.
* Articulate user, business and technical requirements, documenting accurately to ensure all requirements are valid and traceable.
* Build and maintain good business relationships with all stakeholders to develop business system and domain knowledge and share across the team.
* Work closely with Project and Product Management teams, provide accurate effort estimates for analysis tasks and provide analysis updates to ensure delivery within agreed timescales and budget.
* Help to shape and define team practices and processes to continually improve ways of working.
* Define acceptance criteria, conduct and support all phases of testing and ensure expected quality thresholds are met.
* Act as main point of contact for the business teams, providing proactive support and working with the technology team to investigate issues and perform impact analysis, following through to resolution.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
* Extensive understanding and experience of business analysis skills, techniques, and practices including writing user stories, acceptance tests and documenting technical requirements.
* Experience communicating concepts and ideas to stakeholders at all levels within organisations, including oral and written presentations, proposals and reports.
* Experience working on system integration projects, analysing integration requirements, defining data mapping and familiar with integration techniques.
* Familiarity with project, productivity, development and analysis tools across suites such as Atlassian, Google, Microsoft and AWS
Strong knowledge of VOD services, platforms and technologies
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
* Familiarity with Scheduling systems such as Movida/Mediagenix On Demand and general experience with Media delivery to 3rd parties including audio, video, captions, metadata and scheduling.
* Reasonable understanding of programming languages such as JSON, XML, SQL, VBA, RSS.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
NEXT STEPS
We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.
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.
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Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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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• 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.
• BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen. Find out more about BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets here .
• Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
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