Jas Reehal

I have been at the BBC for over 30 years, where I initially developed my skills in operational roles, mostly in the news environment. During my time in Nottingham I was given an opportunity to manage the East Midlands operations team. There was no manual when moving from operations to management, it was a daunting challenge, but with support I believe I successfully made the transition to leading a team. Having enjoyed the challenge I felt it was the right time to build on those skills having proved to myself I could be trusted with such a responsibility.

I took further opportunities to build my my management skills and looked after operations at BBC news in the Midlands and also at BBC Factual.

My role is varied, dealing at times with scheduling issues, the wrong fuel put in to a car, developing my team, leading my team and maintaining the best performance that I can from them, building a safe working environment, looking after budgets, adapting to the constant changes, collaborating with external organisations and so much more. I do love my job, and enjoy the varied challenges that it brings. I am very proud of the services we produce.

My proudest moments are watching team members flourish with training and encouragement, often seeing them move on to bigger jobs, it is these moments that keep me going through the more difficult times.

I believe it is a good time to build on my skills, this role will move me from managing a local team (I have managed teams over two sites) to supporting teams across the country.

If given the opportunity I'll do that with honesty and integrity, hopefully with strong support from my own line managers. The driver is to produce the best output we can, to do that in a cost effective way that's affordable, and to do so mean to adapt to the changing patterns of 'consumers'.