Senior Media / TV Lawyer - Commercial Partnerships

The Senior Media / TV Lawyer - Commercial Partnerships role involves leading complex matters across TV, Digital Media, Sport, General Entertainment, Music, and Sponsorship. The role requires advising on complex bids, TV channel carriage and app partnership deals, rights acquisitions, in-life deal management, and partnering, joint ventures, influencer and talent contracts, strategy, disputes, and procurement.

Requirements

• Qualified solicitor with significant post-qualification experience (typically 5+ years PQE) as a media/TV lawyer.
• Strong knowledge of technology, the media industry, and the UK audiovisual landscape.
• Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex TV/content distribution agreements (e.g., app distribution or channel carriage deals).
• Strong background working with major broadcasters and/or TV/film content platforms.
• Deep understanding of Consumer’s business objectives, processes, systems, and the relevant legal and regulatory framework.
• Proven ability to work autonomously on high-value, complex deals while providing clear, commercially focused legal advice.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence in negotiations involving senior stakeholders and external partners.
• Experience supervising or mentoring junior lawyers, providing practical guidance and support.

Benefits

• Annual on-target bonus 15%
• Car allowance worth £5500 a year
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• 10% BT pension contribution when you pay in 5%
• Life assurance
• Direct share scheme
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans, and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
• My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
• Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service, with buy holiday option
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’