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Creative Product Development Executive

The Bbc, City of Westminster

Creative Product Development Executive

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The Bbc, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Remote working

Posted today, 15 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 032ea5011c4f4400b922fcdd5c1f1ed8

Full Job Description

  • Ensure the product development proceeds smoothly and achieves production deadlines and targets maintaining a high degree of design integrity and commercial competitiveness
  • Direct responsibility for product development from concept through to production on assigned brands, covering both UK and International ranges in EMEA, for assigned children's and/or adult properties, ensuring creative excellence and integrity across all brands. There will be particular focus on support for Bluey
  • Provide a quality design service to licensees, ensuring a high degree of design input, range planning and creative and commercial guidance to maximise the brand and commercial potential of the portfolio. Work with all relevant teams and stakeholders to ensure development is on brand and adheres to all product development and approval stages
  • Develop relationships with rights owners to maximise brand potential. Work closely with rights owners and where necessary mediate between licensees and rights owners to overcome specific design and market needs as well as technical requirements of licensees and retailers without loss of brand integrity
  • Actively evaluate product development needs of partners beyond core brand materials. Manage development of creative materials from photoshoots through to Style Guides, under the direction and budget agreed with the Head of Product Development including the direction of illustrators, designers and printers, as required
  • Ensure that all product follows the design requirements of the relevant brand through adherence to the relevant Style Guide and that the necessary ethical and brand protection and rights requirements are featured on all product and packaging
  • Work with the Marketing, Sales and Retail departments to pull together inspiration boards and product development plans for presentation purposes
  • Creative support for live activations and local territory activations.

    Extensive background within product development working within a licensor, agent or licensee
  • Experience leading pre-school properties and products
  • Commercial acumen - aware of trends and competitor activities
  • Communication and presentation skills - experience in onboarding new partners or presenting to retailers, licensees
  • Demonstrable media sector experience.

    BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
    • We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content.

  • We offer a competitive salary package
  • Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
  • 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
  • A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more
  • Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation.
    • PACKAGE DESCRIPTION Salary: up to £37,000 + London Weighting (£5,319), depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

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