Marketing Executive

Job Introduction

We are looking for a brilliant Marketing Executive to join our Marketing, Creative, & Audiences team in Northern Ireland. This is a fixed term contract for 14 months. It is a hybrid role, combining some working from home with a regular base at Broadcasting House in Belfast.

Our Audiences are at the heart of everything we do in MC&A. We want to deliver value to all and keep audiences coming back to us every day. In understanding our audiences needs we enable them to discover and connect with all the brilliant content and brands the BBC has to offer.

Promoting the BBC’s content is fundamental to this role. You will be part of a talented, high-performing team, working on exciting content and brands from BBC Northern Ireland and across the wide BBC portfolio, including BBC iPlayer, TV, Sport, Sounds, Radio Ulster, News, Drama, Entertainment. Briefing and working on marketing campaigns that engage, excite and inspire all audiences to love and value the BBC.

Main Responsibilities

As our Marketing Executive, you will assist the Head of Marketing in design and delivery of marketing strategy & planning. Co-collaborating with the Media Portfolio and Creative teams, you will brief, manage, & performance evaluate, multi-media marketing campaigns that drive affinity with the BBC brand, and consumption of our content across our services and digital platforms.

Are you the right candidate?

• Passionate about marketing, proactive, adaptable, comfortable managing multiple responsibilities at once, with a high work-rate ethos.
• Able to confidently collaborate with a range of Editorial individuals & teams to help develop and grow some of our biggest products and brands.
• A curious and pragmatic problem solver with a natural interest & flair for strategic thinking; bringing a fresh perspective to each project.
• A collaborative style, a ‘can-do’ attitude, someone who can bring different teams and skills together with the energy and resilience to make things happen.
• Someone who is passionate, motivated and inspired by the content, services and underlying public purposes of the BBC.

We are looking for someone who demonstrates BBC values and behaviours as well as essential transferable skills and experience for the role. This means that we will want to understand your strengths - the things that you can do well and that you enjoy doing. This helps us to really understand you as an individual.

If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

About the BBC

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: 14 Months FTC
Location: Belfast - Broadcasting House

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of 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.