Lawyer - Media & TV

Closing Date: 7th July

Location: London, at least 3 days a week on site.

About the role

The TV Media Lawyer will support legal work across the media team, with a focus on TV and audiovisual media matters. This role is suited to a qualified lawyer at an early stage in their career who brings strong commercial legal capability, excellent drafting skills, and a clear interest in the media sector.

The position involves advising on contracts and legal issues connected to media-related activity, working closely with colleagues across the business, and contributing to strategically important projects. The role also requires the ability to assess legal risk, provide practical guidance, and operate effectively in a fast-paced corporate environment.

We value integrity, sound judgement and collaboration. The team works closely together to deliver practical legal support while balancing commercial priorities and legal risk.

You will join an environment that encourages thoughtful challenge, high-quality work and shared success. We are looking for someone who is genuinely interested in the media space, enjoys working with others, and wants to build their expertise within a team focused on meaningful and commercially relevant legal work.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide legal support on TV and audiovisual media matters handled by the media team.
• Draft, review and negotiate a range of commercial agreements and related legal documentation.
• Advise stakeholders on legal risk and help deliver pragmatic, business-focused solutions.
• Support strategically important projects by offering clear and commercially informed legal input.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and build effective working relationships across the business.
• Question and challenge constructively where needed to support sound decision-making.
• Maintain a strong understanding of relevant legal and regulatory considerations affecting the role.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Understanding of BT's Consumer business objectives, processes and systems, and the legal and regulatory framework in which BT operates.
• Comfortable influencing/delivering strategically important projects for BT.
• Ability to question intelligently, challenge rigorously and recommend – with sound business judgment- a course of action to a stakeholder.
• Excellent drafting, communication, stakeholder management, organisation, influencing and persuading skills.
• Must have an interest in TV / Media Law.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Knowledge of technology, the media industry (in particular the UK audiovisual media landscape) and convergence.
• Strong team player.
• Ability to work under time pressure to demanding timescales.
• Self-motivated, proactive, optimistic, energetic, resilient, effective at prioritising and able to deal with multiple matters at the same time

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us

• Holiday purchase scheme

  You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

Holiday purchase scheme

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.