Emma Baehr Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

• Manage and lead a team of 30 across several departments including Awards, Events, Production, Content and the Regions to deliver all aspects involved in delivering eight award ceremonies across the year with a global.
• Successfully transitioned the Awards to be carbon neutral, albert certified and inclusive, diverse and accessible
• Creatively evolved the Awards into a more entertaining format to ensure they remain relevant to partners and the broadcasters and attract new and younger audiences. This evolution included creating bespoke original.
• Ambassador for the BAFTA brand; partaking in press interviews, regular round table discussions with the industry bodies such as BECTU, DUK, Equity and with studios, broadcasters, publicist etc. ensuring BAFTA continues.
• Executive Producer for the Film & Television BAFTA Awards broadcast on BBC One
• Spearheaded the process and rules around the refocus of the Gifts of the Academy (the highest accolades that BAFTA can bestow) to broaden the consideration of what these awards represent, how they are selected and how.

London, United Kingdom

Identified and implemented the need for BAFTA’s membership department to move from a facilitating department to a strategic one, in order to reflect the company’s ambition of becoming truly a global organisation with a membership reflective of the industry. This resulted in the amalgamated of the Awards and Membership teams and creation of genre heads.

London

• Oversaw, developed and maximised the impact of the London-based Awards ceremonies, ensuring they remained viable in the digital age.
• Identified strategic partnerships to future proof the Awards including new sponsors, potential broadcasters and PR agencies.
• Identified the opportunities for Awards content over and above the Awards ceremonies, including identifying additional revenue opportunities without compromising BAFTA, its charitable remit or mission.
• Managed the overseas Sales Agent for the Film Awards and the commercial strategy of the other Awards.
• Ensured any cross-departmental events, campaigns and membership engagement were aligned.
• Played an active role in the Senior Management Team, addressing any issues, influencing the strategic direction of BAFTA and liaising closely with internal stakeholders to collaborate and communicate effectively.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for all aspects of the administration of the British Academy Film Awards including rules, entry, writing press releases, campaigning, voting, results, juries, ticketing and nominees.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• UK Development and Publishing Manager for all Drama and Sci-Fi titles within the Consumer Products division of BBC Worldwide. Responsible for providing informed acquisition and investment decisions on new, suitable.
• Develop brand & product development strategy in line with business KPIs to maximize commercial returns and brand longevity.
• To acquire, invest, champion and pitch throughout the business the development of new publishing opportunities, programmes and initiatives.
• Commissioning, developing and devising value added material programme ideas and project managing them through to fruition.
• Lead Doctor Who brand forums encouraging every part of the business to contribute to inspire new product ideas and cross category and promotional opportunities.
• Understand consumer and market trends and applying knowledge to scheduling and sales forecasts.

As a Commissioner in the Programming & Acquisition department at 2entertain I was responsible for securing the distribution rights to BBC in-house key global brand programmes for DVD release. This included project managing Independent, BBC & Special Commission Acquisitions from concept, through the pitch and tender process, to final investment sign off and.

Successfully completed a four month contract in the Ethical Sourcing department at BBC Worldwide. Responsible for project managing and administering the roll out of the ethical spot check programme for all of BBC Worldwide. This included assessing compliance and development needs across all BBC Worldwide’s business areas; identifying any gaps in training.

• Worked as a DVD Producer in the Children’s & Licensing department; project managing the entire production process of DVDs of BBC Children’s programmes from brief to final product, ensuring that the DVDs adhered to the.
• Managed, trained and developed the Production Coordinator and the in-house Designer.
• Developed and managed covermount campaigns with leading national newspaper groups.
• Prepared and written reports for submission to senior management.
• Prepared & presented 1 & 3 year DVD strategy for all my brands.
• Brought down cost of origination of DVDs by 40%.

• Managed the DVD production unit & team, having responsibility for the overall budget, the day-to-day running of the department and developing the Children’s DVD business strategy.Key Achievements:
• Increased financial efficiency by restructuring the Profit & Loss management information system for all DVD titles, which included royalty payments & payaways.
• Negotiated a three-year deal (2008 – 2011) with a third party licensing back catalogue titles.
• Sat on the BBC Worldwide Digital Committee & produced the digital report of potential opportunities for BBC Worldwide Children’s division.
• Tactically worked on campaign strategy on a quarterly basis: identifying back catalogue titles that had marketing appeal & a pricing structure that worked for retail.

Managed the acquisition and clearance of contributor rights, managing a team of four to enable the BBC to release DVD, video and audio products both in the UK and internationally.Negotiated deals and drafted contracts for the underlying copyright and reported statistical information to senior management.

Responsible for the clearance of Equity artists and musicians for video, DVD and audio releases & providing advice, cost and rights information for Worldwide.

Administered BAC’s programme: booking artists and companies for festivals and shows, negotiating payment schedules and fees with companies, maintaining databases and liaising with all departments regarding the programme. Managed and produced contracts issued to artists and staff.