Head of Business - South Asia

As Regional Head of Business & Operations (India), you'll ensure our bureaux across the region are safe, resilient, and strategically aligned to support our world class journalism. You'll be responsible for leading business operations across a diverse and often complex region, including areas affected by conflict, ensuring our teams, infrastructure, and systems are robust, agile, and fit for purpose. Your work will directly support the BBC's editorial and commercial ambitions, helping us reach audiences with trusted and impartial news wherever they are. Travel, potentially to high risk areas, will be a requirement of the role. The BBC reaches a global weekly audience of 450m and is ranked first by those audiences for trust, reliability, and independence amongst international news providers. Our global journalism includes the BBC World Service, which operates across 42 language services and is one of the main drivers of our success. Its journalists deliver vitally important impartial news and current affairs across video, audio, and online output. We constantly battle against a growing wave of disinformation in an increasingly polarised international media landscape. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to take on a new senior leadership role at the heart of the BBC's renowned international news operations.

The BBC reaches a global weekly audience of 450m and is ranked first by those audiences for trust, reliability, and independence amongst international news providers. Our global journalism includes the BBC World Service, which operates across 42 language services and is one of the main drivers of our success. Its journalists deliver vitally important impartial news and current affairs across video, audio, and online output. We constantly battle against a growing wave of disinformation in an increasingly polarised international media landscape.