This 12-month fixed-term post sits within BBC Studios, supporting advertising sales on the BBC News channel for the EMEA region. The work centres on scheduling customer campaigns, managing inventory and clashes, and running pre-invoice and compliance checks in the TV order system. It is a full-time role in a fast-paced sales operations setting, reporting to the EMEA TV Ad Operations Manager. Prior experience in traffic, scheduling or media planning, ideally with a media owner, is strongly preferred.
What the job involves
- Fulfil customer orders, including trafficking campaigns and revisions on BBC News
- Create and update deals, campaigns, products, agencies, advertisers and billing detail in the Mydas order system
- Manage client clashes between advertisers to keep capacity maximised
- Carry out pre-compliance and technical checks on commercial spots, liaising with BBC News sales on plans, reporting and rebooking
- Run monthly pre-invoice checks and amendments, and track and recover revenue lost to booking or copy errors
- Gather editorial insights and data from across teams to make actionable recommendations to sales
- Liaise with sales and internal creative teams on pre-sales campaign requests and proposals
- Finalise regional feeds before logs are sent, including rebooking dropped spots, filling open availability and resolving booking disputes
- Check missing copy and work with BBC Studios traffic and affiliate sales to update the copy rotation inbox before logs are finalised
- Work with Playout on copy changes, take-downs and compliance issues
- Provide pre and post logs or airtime reporting to Ad Sales when needed
- Help establish and develop systems, processes and business relationships to support market growth
What’s required
Experience
- Experience in traffic, scheduling, media planning or production management, with a media owner strongly preferred
Skills & knowledge
- Advanced skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Attention to detail and strong organisation
- Excellent communication and stakeholder liaison, including with client stakeholders
- Proactive approach to problem solving and innovation
- Ability to multi-task within a competitive sales operations environment
Other
- Ability to work within a team and on own initiative
- Flexible and responsible approach to work
Nice to have
- Knowledge of television advertising infrastructure
- Campaign management experience
- Working knowledge of airtime-sales systems
- Experience of Wide Orbit or Mydas
- Experience of VOD, OTT and FAST TV broadcast operations infrastructure
- Additional media software experience
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
