EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has engaged two government search corporations to assist with its efforts to exchange chief content material officer Charlotte Moore.
The broadcaster has tasked Grace Blue and Ibison with filling probably the most highly effective inventive position in British TV, audio, and streaming, per a job advert simply revealed on-line.
Moore introduced in February that she was stepping down as chief content material officer after 4 years to affix Left Financial institution Photos as CEO. She may even oversee worldwide inventive output for Sony Photos Tv.
The BBC’s job advert makes clear that the profitable candidate will oversee the identical empire as Moore, doubtlessly ending hypothesis that the company might look to interrupt up the position.
The job advert stops wanting saying that the brand new chief content material officer will sit on the board, however it’s because the profitable candidate must be formally put ahead by the nominations committee. Moore has held a board seat since 2020 and her successor will probably take a spot on the prime desk.
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The job discover stated Moore’s substitute will “oversee commissioning for BBC iPlayer, all nationwide TV channels, commissioning and manufacturing for 10 nationwide radio networks and for BBC Sounds, youngsters’s and training content material and be the inventive lead for all BBC’s key genres.”
The suitable candidate will likely be an “industry-recognised senior chief,” who has held a “sizable management position inside the UK TV market.” They should have a “complete understanding of the aggressive panorama together with the financial/industrial/political and artistic points dealing with the {industry}.”
The BBC’s unscripted supremo Kate Phillips has taken on Moore’s position within the interim and is broadly seen as one of many main candidates for the place.
Deadline listed the important thing contenders in February, with these linked with the position together with Netflix UK chief Anne Mensah; Jay Hunt, inventive director, Europe at Apple TV+; BBC Studios Productions CEO Zai Bennett; and Patrick Holland, the boss of Banijay.
Hypothesis is more likely to be fevered because the recruitment course of progresses. There was a interval of unprecedented stability on the prime of British tv, with content material chiefs on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 all having been in publish for document durations of time.
Purposes shut on April 30.
