Content Discovery Executive (Podcasts)

Package Description

Job Ref: 19671

• Band: C
• Location: Office Base is London or Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
• Salary: Up to £32,500 – £36,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. Salary excludes London Weighting.
• Contract type: 9 month Fixed Term Contract.

This role will be mapped as an Editorial Manager

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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack. 

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact Reasonable Adjustments. For any general queries, please contact: BBC HR.

Job Introduction

BBC Sounds is the BBC’s digital audio platform bringing radio, music, and podcasts to our listeners wherever they are. The Content Discovery team sits at the heart of Sounds, working closely with Editorial, Marketing, and Product to grow and retain our weekly audience. This role will focus on growing and retaining digital audiences for BBC Sounds podcasts.

The role can be based in London or Salford.

Main Responsibilities

• You’ll support the Content Discovery Managers as they grow and retain audiences for BBC podcasts.
• You’ll be at the heart of our First on Sounds strategy, providing administrative and communication support, and advising on release patterns for some of the BBC’s biggest podcast titles.
• You’ll use audience data to inform tactics for podcast growth and regularly report back on success or lessons learned.
• You’ll champion the use of data to understand our audiences, delivering insight that helps us grow weekly audiences on BBC Sounds; trialling new ideas, figuring out what works (and what doesn’t) and sharing best practice.
• You’ll develop great relationships with commissioning and production teams, championing the work of the Content Discovery team and sharing best practice for digital audience growth.
• You’ll work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in Metadata & Publishing, Production, Commissioning, Marketing, Social Media, and Curation to support multi-disciplinary projects and bring alignment on goals and ways of working.

Are you the right candidate?

• You’ll be experienced in providing administrative and communication support for large-scale projects.
• You’ll have demonstrable experience of growing and retaining digital audiences.
• You’ll be an avid podcast listener, have a knowledge of industry trends and be able to take inspiration from what is happening outside of the BBC.
• You are data savvy – not afraid of a spreadsheet or a dashboard, you’ll be able to take audience data and use it to inform our plans for growing audiences on BBC Sounds.
• Alongside the Content Discovery Managers, you will be able to support complex digital projects made up of cross discipline teams and manage stakeholders with competing needs.
• You will be an excellent communicator – able to explain data and complex ideas and projects in simple and compelling ways to a range of audiences.
• You will have experience working collaboratively with a diverse range of teams on digital projects.
• You will be innovative – unafraid to try new things and able to learn lessons when those succeed or fail.
• You will be tenacious – pushing new ideas forward in the face of old ways of working.
• You will be adaptable – able to manage and flex to different projects and challenges as they arise.
• You will be committed to the BBC’s public service values and interested in how these apply across digital products.

In other organisations this role might be called something like Digital Executive; Audience Development Executive; Audience Engagement Executive or similar. 

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.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

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.

Package Description

Job Ref: 19671

• Band: C
• Location: Office Base is London or Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
• Salary: Up to £32,500 – £36,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. Salary excludes London Weighting.
• Contract type: 9 month Fixed Term Contract.

This role will be mapped as an Editorial Manager

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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack. 

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact Reasonable Adjustments. For any general queries, please contact: BBC HR.

Job Introduction

BBC Sounds is the BBC’s digital audio platform bringing radio, music, and podcasts to our listeners wherever they are. The Content Discovery team sits at the heart of Sounds, working closely with Editorial, Marketing, and Product to grow and retain our weekly audience. This role will focus on growing and retaining digital audiences for BBC Sounds podcasts.

The role can be based in London or Salford.

Main Responsibilities

• You’ll support the Content Discovery Managers as they grow and retain audiences for BBC podcasts.
• You’ll be at the heart of our First on Sounds strategy, providing administrative and communication support, and advising on release patterns for some of the BBC’s biggest podcast titles.
• You’ll use audience data to inform tactics for podcast growth and regularly report back on success or lessons learned.
• You’ll champion the use of data to understand our audiences, delivering insight that helps us grow weekly audiences on BBC Sounds; trialling new ideas, figuring out what works (and what doesn’t) and sharing best practice.
• You’ll develop great relationships with commissioning and production teams, championing the work of the Content Discovery team and sharing best practice for digital audience growth.
• You’ll work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in Metadata & Publishing, Production, Commissioning, Marketing, Social Media, and Curation to support multi-disciplinary projects and bring alignment on goals and ways of working.

Are you the right candidate?

• You’ll be experienced in providing administrative and communication support for large-scale projects.
• You’ll have demonstrable experience of growing and retaining digital audiences.
• You’ll be an avid podcast listener, have a knowledge of industry trends and be able to take inspiration from what is happening outside of the BBC.
• You are data savvy – not afraid of a spreadsheet or a dashboard, you’ll be able to take audience data and use it to inform our plans for growing audiences on BBC Sounds.
• Alongside the Content Discovery Managers, you will be able to support complex digital projects made up of cross discipline teams and manage stakeholders with competing needs.
• You will be an excellent communicator – able to explain data and complex ideas and projects in simple and compelling ways to a range of audiences.
• You will have experience working collaboratively with a diverse range of teams on digital projects.
• You will be innovative – unafraid to try new things and able to learn lessons when those succeed or fail.
• You will be tenacious – pushing new ideas forward in the face of old ways of working.
• You will be adaptable – able to manage and flex to different projects and challenges as they arise.
• You will be committed to the BBC’s public service values and interested in how these apply across digital products.

In other organisations this role might be called something like Digital Executive; Audience Development Executive; Audience Engagement Executive or similar. 

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.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

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.

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