Digital Ad Operations Executive

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract, Full-time (9‑month maternity cover)

DEPARTMENT: Digital News & Streaming – Advertising Product, Technology & Operations

LOCATION: Television Centre, London – Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £34,000 – £38,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. London Weighting (£5,441) will be added on top of the base salary.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Digital Ad Operations Executive manages direct digital advertising campaigns across BBC.com properties, ensuring high‑quality delivery, trafficking, optimisation and technical troubleshooting to support the EMEA advertising sales team.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You will join a collaborative EMEA Ad Operations team based in London, contributing to high‑impact advertising delivery across BBC digital products, while developing expertise in a complex ad‑tech ecosystem.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Support delivery of EMEA ad ops campaigns including QC, trafficking, troubleshooting, reporting and KPI‑driven optimisation.
• Provide technical support to EMEA Sales teams, including dashboards, campaign status and stakeholder notifications.
• Collaborate with Ad Product, Technology and Global Ops teams to ensure operational excellence.
• Provide first‑line support for ad takedown, troubleshooting and investigation across BBC web/app properties.
• Support testing of ad formats, programmatic advertising and cross‑platform process improvements.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Advanced understanding of Advertising Campaign Management ecosystem and technology (Operative One, Google Ad Manager, DV360, SSPs, YouTube, Brand Safety tools).
• Proven experience operating digital advertising products within a publisher or ad‑tech environment, including troubleshooting programmatic and video.
• Hands‑on experience with ad servers and/or DSPs and third‑party tracking.
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools for analysis and reporting.
• Experience managing creative formats and client tagging.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
• Experience working with Salesforce Media Cloud or similar Order Management Systems.
• Understanding of first‑party data, reconciliation and billing cycles.
• Experience developing business health metrics and reporting dashboards.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC. At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about BBC Studios Life at BBC Studios:

• 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.
• Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis. Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk