Senior Producer - Sports

We have a new role in for an ambitious SENIOR PRODUCER to join a creative agency with a vibrant production department, managing a high volume of world-class global and national film and photography campaigns that sit online.

Responsibilities:

• Transform creative concepts into reality while maintaining top-tier standards, staying on brief, and delivering within budget.
• Oversee all aspects of production, ensuring multiple high-budget projects are delivered from start to finish, encompassing budget, team, resource, and critical path management.
• Devise production strategies at the project’s onset, assessing budgets, resources, timelines, and feasibility.
• Collaborate closely with creative and strategic leads, forming part of the project leadership team to guide the project to success.
• Mitigate and solve problems as they arise.
• Source, manage, and coordinate third-party suppliers, building production teams and experts.
• Hire, onboard, and manage freelance resources where appropriate.
• Work with third-party production consultants to deliver projects on scope and budget.
• Foster strong internal relationships within the team and support the development of junior members.
• Manage business affairs documents and legal sign-off processes.
• Negotiate contract terms and fees with talent agents.
• Fully reconcile budgets once the project is completed.
• Act as the client-facing production expert across projects.
• Brief creative teams, including art directors, retouchers, editors, and composers.
• Manage all production aspects: pre-production, production, and post-production.
• Make informed autonomous decisions for projects and escalate for further approvals when necessary.

Requirements:

• Production experience.
• A solid network of industry contacts, including freelance crew, creative teams, photographers, studios, and agents.
• Strong technical production skills, including crew terms, industry standards, APA crew rates, and legal responsibilities.
• Experience in mentoring and managing junior team members.
• Proven success in delivering projects within budget parameters.
• Experience in producing and line producing international productions.
• Skilled negotiator when dealing with agents.
• Previous experience managing 3D, VFX, and animation is highly desirable.
• Experience working with high-profile talent is highly desirable.
• A portfolio of high-quality film and photographic content.

You Are:

• Highly organized, analytical, and process-driven.
• Agile and capable of handling unexpected challenges with ease.
• A team player, ready to roll up your sleeves and get involved.
• Cool, calm, and collected under pressure.
• Flexible and comfortable with ambiguity.
• An expert in all aspects of production.
• Confident working with complex projects and deliverables.
• Experienced in managing budgets.
• Culturally aware, bringing new perspectives to the table.
• Passionate about sports and fashion (highly desirable).

Join the team and play a key role in delivering exceptional film and photography campaigns!

**Salary is dependent on level of Producer and projects will be allocated accordingly

We are committed to ensuring and supporting representation from all backgrounds across the creative industry, irrespective of race, religion, belief, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or socio-economic background.

With this in mind, we welcome applications from all areas of the community. Please do get in touch and let us know if there is any additional support or reasonable adjustments we can cater for, to ensure our process and roles fit your needs and creates a comfortable & enjoyable recruitment process