Job Introduction

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The TV Ad Operations Coordinator is responsible for supporting the fulfilment of advertising on the BBC World News channel. This role will ensure that efficient and effective support is in place to maximize revenues through the execution of customer campaigns for the Global News sales teams and our US Affiliate sales house.  The TV Ad Ops Coordinator role is responsible for TV advertising sales operational support, inventory management, and delivers compliance and reporting support for the North America region.  The role is an integral operational and technical resource in enabling sales teams to sell compelling advertising campaigns and branded content across the channel.

The position is based in New York and will report to the EMEA TV Ad Operations Manager based in the London head office. Additionally, this role will help to establish and develop the necessary systems, processes, and business relationships associated with this objective to support growth in market.

The role requires an ability to work in fast paced environment and have knowledge and confidence to make critical business decisions.  Attention to detail, as well as taking ownership are integral to this role.

Role Responsibility

• Responsible for the efficient fulfilment of customer orders including the trafficking of campaigns and revisions on BBC World News.
• Responsibility for creating and updating deals, campaigns, products, agencies, advertiser, and billing detail in the TV order management system, Mydas.
• Careful management of client clashes between advertisers to ensure maximum capacity.
• Pre-compliance and technical checks on commercial spots, liaising with Global News North America & LATAM sales teams regarding checking plans/reporting/rebooking inventory.
• Responsibility for monthly pre-invoice checks, amendments and EDI workflow to ensure all customers are invoiced correctly. Responsibility for tracking any loss of revenue due to booking or copy errors and ensuring processes are in place and being adhered to in order to make good any losses.
• Assist the Inventory Manager with North America inventory optimization to increase yield and accommodate campaign requests for BBC Global News and our US affiliate.
• Work cross-functionally to collect editorial insights and collect data to make actionable recommendations to the North America sales teams
• Maintain the Sponsorship buyout and reservation platform with sales teams.
• Liaise with sales and internal creative teams on presales campaign requests and proposals.
• Finalizing the North America feed before logs are sent; including rebooking of dropped spots, filling open availability and resolving booking disputes.
• Checking missing copy and liaising with BBC Studios Traffic and Affiliate Sales to update the copy rotation inbox before logs are finalized. 
• Work with Playout to accommodate copy change, take downs or compliance issues.
• Provide Ad Sales with pre or post logs or air times reporting when needed.
• Market analysis and support for new platforms CTV & Fast Channel opportunities

The Ideal Candidate

Requirements

• 1 year of experience in traffic, scheduling, media planning or production management with a national cable network strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent level of experience
• Advanced computer skills in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Additional media software experience helpful
• Ability to work within a team and on own initiative and a flexible and responsible approach to work. Efficient, organized and good attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills and the confidence to liaise effectively, while managing the various relationships with client stakeholders.
• A pro-active approach to problem solving and innovation.
• Ability to multi-task within a competitive sales operations environment.

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of television advertising infrastructure and campaign management experience.
• Working knowledge of Airtime-Sales systems.  Wide Orbit or Mydas preferable.
• Experience of VOD, OTT and FAST TV broadcast operations infrastructure an advantage.

About the Company

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Closing Date15 October, 2022