Content Distribution Consultant

Broadcasting Distribution Consultant London 3 Month Contract, 2/3 days a week

As the UK’s communications regulator, we’re delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes the future of how we’ll stay connected with each other. Our work covers everything from phones and broadband, through to TV, radio, the postal service, and wireless devices. We have also taken on the challenge of making the online world a safer place. And we need people of all backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences to help us achieve our goal of making communications work for everyone.

The Strategy and Policy team plays a pivotal role in setting Ofcom’s strategic direction and ensuring it has a clear pathway to deliver against its key priorities. We are also at the forefront of providing the organisation with the strategic insight and analysis needed to anticipate future challenges and opportunities that exist within this rapidly evolving space.

• Thought leadership on emerging policy issues – working collaboratively with other teams to decide Ofcom’s position on new or cross-cutting consumer, public policy and competition issues
• Horizon scanning and market/strategic insight – understanding how the communications sector may develop in future to inform our wider policy programme
• Delivering Ofcom’s strategic priorities – leading major projects that set the future direction of regulation in the sector
• Ofcom’s corporate strategy – working with senior management and the Board to set Ofcom’s strategy, define its priorities and assess their delivery

We are recruiting a highly skilled and knowledgeable broadcasting and media consultant with commercial experience of business strategy decisions around TV distribution to join our team. TV distribution is changing rapidly, and it’s important for audiences that we have an understanding of the latest commercial landscape for content distribution in the face of industry change. The ideal candidate will have experience working in or with the broadcasting sector with in-depth knowledge of the terrestrial and satellite markets. They will be responsible for analysing and advising on shifts in the market and the risks and opportunities that broadcasters are facing over the next decade. This role involves delivering high quality strategic analysis and leading engagement with external stakeholders. You will be expected to have a high degree of expertise and experience in strategic thinking and market analysis.

• Strategic analysis and thought leadership

• Lead the analysis of commercial forces in the broadcasting market, risks and opportunities impacting commercial sustainability, business models and technological innovation over the next 5 years.
• Apply robust analytical approaches, looking at the impact on audiences and consumers of different policies and commercial strategies.
• Contribute proactively to debates about strategic and policy issues, providing thought leadership within the Strategy & Policy team, particularly where it comes to work on the future of TV distribution.

• Project management and delivery

• Exercise good judgement in proactively managing and mitigating risks.
• Independently lead the delivery of a high-quality and detailed analysis for internal consumption and presenting the results to internal stakeholders.
• Lead, with minimal supervision, strategic analysis of the commercial forces at play in TV distribution.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the UK broadcasting market, covering both terrestrial and satellite TV delivery, and show an interest in Ofcom’s mission to make communications work for everyone.
• Apply analytical skills, including conducting research and analysis into complex issues to solve problems and find solutions.

Where positions are listed as full time, we remain open to reduced hours, part-time arrangements, job shares and other flexible working options from day one of employment. As a disability confident employer, we offer interviews to any disabled applicant who meet essential criteria for advertised roles.