Legal Counsel

JOB DETAILS

Role: Legal Counsel

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Location: Singapore

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

To provide high-quality, commercially focused legal advice and support to BBC Studios’ businesses across Asia. The role operates as a trusted legal and business partner to senior stakeholders, supporting strategic, commercial and operational initiatives while ensuring appropriate governance, risk management and compliance. while contributing to a cohesive, high-performing regional legal team. 

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

1. Negotiation and contracting: Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements and legal documentation, supporting business objectives while identifying and mitigating legal, financial and reputational risk.
2. Advising: Provides accurate, timely, practical and commercially focused legal advice to clients.
3. Stakeholder management: To positively represent BBC Studios and foster and develop effective creative and commercial relationships – both externally and internally across the BBC group.
4. Risk management: To mitigate legal, contractual and business risk, and resolve disputes concerning content, brand and IP protection.
5. Compliance: To ensure that standards and frameworks are adhered to and translated into compliant individual deals within a pan-BBC approach. Ensures compliance with BBCS policies and procedures and relevant legislation and regulation.
6. Teamwork: To confidently foster excellent relationships across multiple lines of business and territories and be a strategic business partner. To collaborate effectively with and assist other members of the team as may be required.
7. Project management: To lead or assist on complex projects to ensure effective delivery and use of resources.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Key Criteria

• Admitted to practise as a lawyer in a common law jurisdiction (Singapore of the UK preferred; US or Australia jurisdictions will also be considered).
• 1-3 years Post-Qualification Experience.
• Fluency in English.
• Experience with negotiating, rights management, and contracting and copyright experience.
• Ability to manage diverse workstreams and to apply complex analytical and problem- solving skills under pressure in a complex, evolving environment.

Desirable 

• Knowledge of, and experience in, the broadcast, news and/or content production sector.
• Understanding of the structures and systems within which broadcasters, producers, distributors (whether traditional or non-traditional e.g. digital) operate.
• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework particularly in the region within which the business operates.
• Working proficiency in an additional language relevant to the business unit’s operations (particularly, Mandarin, Japanese or Korean).

Decision Making

• Analyse and interpret legal issues in a timely fashion and advise the business on how best to address them in its operations.
• Operate with autonomy and drive.

Scope

• Support substantial and varied business lines within the business, with primary responsibility supporting BBC Studios’ Japan business.
• Face a wide variety of complex and challenging legal issues, including those arising from developing geographic and product markets.
• Ability to work across multiple time zones, territories, and business lines.

Strategic Impact / Influence

Provide creative, intelligent, and clearly directed contributions at both the Business Affairs and Legal levels.

Reporting Structure

Part of the Business & Legal Affairs team reporting to Senior Legal Counsel, Asia.