Job description
SENIOR PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
As Senior Programme Director at this London based agency, you will be responsible for delivering the advertising scope for a leading beauty brand. You will head up a team of two PMs (PM & SPM) who are dedicated to this scope and work closely with the x2 Business Leads. You will be at the heart of all the projects that run through the team and central to the day-to-day operations of how the team operates, this includes daily face to face contact with multiple clients.
Working closely with the Creative Director, you will be a champion for creative excellence continuing to improve and evolve with every initiative. You will not take ‘no’ for an answer and seek to leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of brilliance.
You will be extremely comfortable in production and delivery, with the ability to problem solve all the way through the creation and trafficking of assets. In addition, you will have solid understanding of strategic and creative development phases and able to navigate the team through complex projects with multiple streams of work.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Team
- Runs daily morning scrum - ensuring all team members are clear on priorities
- Takes ownership of project execution and delivery for every project
- Overview of all team holidays ensuring we have adequate resource
Communication
- Act as the single point of contact with cross functional partners, ensuring an easy flow of information and a unified voice to our client and production partners.
- Be a trusted escalation point for client and agency for projects that your team are running that may hit problems.
Creative Partnership
- Collaborate with creative teams to shape and craft the creative idea into reality
- Champion creative and push the craft levels with each and every campaign
- Passionate and curious about production trends and talent
- Run post initiative wash up sessions looking for opportunities to optimise process and raise the bar on creativity
- Work closely with our production partners, to develop ways of working and optimisations
Financials
- Overall responsibility of production budgets and ensuring clear reporting and tracking to client
- Approve timesheets and track burn against project scopes
- Keep track of projects and highlight overages and out of scope request
- Work with the operations lead on yearly scope for fee
- Responsible for tracking freelance spend against scope
- Work with Business Leads on monthly income reporting
WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
- Team player who can lead and collaborate in equal measure
- Strong experience in production across TV, Film, Social, Digital and Print
- Excellent written and verbal communicator
- Ability to pivot and adjust quickly
- Passion for beautiful creative and an ambition to grow and develop
- Self-starter with the ability to work autonomously
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Attention to detail, demonstrating a high degree of accuracy and consistency
WE WOULD LOVE IF YOU HAD:
- 5+ years relevant experience
- Experience working independently and self-managing productions supporting multiple stakeholders.
- Management experience
- Experience in beauty
