Senior Creative Producer - Sky Creative

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work. Sky Creative are on the look-out for a Senior Producer to join the team to work on 360 advertising campaigns for Sky VIP! This role would suit someone who has operated at a senior level, has extensive 360 advertising experience, and is passionate about producing world class creative! What you'll do:

• Overall leadership and responsibility for cross-business and cross-discipline advertising projects.
• Efficiently lead the production of a 360 campaign ensuring successful delivery of all On Air & Off air elements.
• Take the lead on specific campaign based projects, scope out effective production solutions to ensure assets are delivered on time and within budget
• Responsible for liaising with wider internal teams and external suppliers
• Managing feedback and approvals process both within SCA and wider business
• Maintaining team documents including resource, project and budget trackers
• Working with resource managers to ensure projects are resourced properly and budget is in place where needed
• To use production expertise to come up with the best and most effective solutions for producing a campaign on time & on budget.
• Use Sky’s assets, when appropriate, by working closely with Sky Production Services to deliver production solutions which leverage internal facilities across the board
• Negotiate the best deals for Sky throughout the production process, whilst maintaining quality of work
• Lead on all negotiations with agents/production companies for on and off screen talent
• Use and maintain an up to date ‘black book’ to widen the range of talent Sky Creative works with and, when required, make this resource available to the rest of the department
• Work closely with CDs, Directors, Designers and Advertising and Promo Creatives and support them by applying production experience to deliver the creative vision

What you'll bring:

• Substantial (5+ years) 360 production and post-production knowledge gained in a broadcast media, advertising agency or production company background or equivalent is essential
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and drive a project from brief to delivery
• Demonstrable production and broadcast technology experience – knowledge of formats, cameras, lighting, studio and location equipment and in particular media management and design and post-production workflow from offline editing through to motion design, CG animation, VFX and audio
• Demonstrable skills and knowledge gained from high level talent negotiation
• Proven track record of managing budgets from £10,000 to £500,000+ and forward planning.
• A hands-on producer and people developer with proven ability to get the best out of individuals and a team including line management responsibilities
• Confident in senior level meetings with stakeholder management
• Great communicator - maintain and build relationships internally and externally
• Strong organisational skills particularly those involving complex 360 production techniques for all media - digital, video, print and stills
• Ability to supervise and direct junior members of staff

Team Overview Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple customers across our European Markets. From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities. We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market. We’re committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do in a diverse and inclusive environment The Rewards: There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work: We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home. We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process. Your office base: Osterley Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers. Inclusion: We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation. And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.