Reporting to the SVP Business & Legal Affairs for BBC Studios Direct to Consumer and working closely with the ANZ Head of Global Channels & Streaming, the Senior Lawyer will be responsible for providing world-class business and legal affairs support for all aspects of the BritBox Australia and ANZ Global Channels & Streaming businesses. This may include drafting and negotiating content acquisition, distribution (including app distribution), marketing, services and other general commercial agreements, as well as advising on channel carriage arrangements, music licensing, marketing compliance, data protection, consumer law and other regulatory matters relevant to a digital content business.
It will be important for the incoming person to be a self-starter, happy to pick up tasks and projects that may not fall directly in their remit, and be prepared to get involved in everything from strategy development to detailed execution and delivery.
This role reports into the SVP Business & Legal Affairs for Direct to Consumer (based in UK), with a dotted line into the VP Business & Legal Affairs for Global Channels & Streaming and Commercial News (also based in the UK), and will work on a day-to-day basis with the BBC Studios team based in Sydney, including working with the Head of Business & Legal Affairs for ANZ and providing support across other lines of business in ANZ as may be required.
