Senior Producer - 12 month Mat Cover
London, UK
Delivery – Production /
Full-time /
Hybrid
AnalogFolk is a global digitally native creative agency, independently owned since 2008. We have talented Folk across offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.
We deliver progressive solutions that change people's lives and fuel brand growth.
We’re proud to partner with some of the world’s most respected and influential brands, including Nike, Diageo, L’Oreal, Meta, Tommy Hilfiger and Amazon.
Here are just a few of the notable accolades our globally-recognised work has received: The Drum’s Most Awarded Agency in EMEA; Campaign’s UK and Global Digital Innovation Agency of the Year; Contagious Pioneers Best and Bravest Agencies on the Planet; and a Fast Company award for a World Changing Idea.
OVERVIEW
As a Senior Producer, you will ultimately be responsible for making remarkable work happen.
It will be your responsibility to manage fully integrated campaigns from the brief inception to final delivery up to a value of £1M+. You will need to love solving problems, be commercially savvy and lead successful collaboration between cross - department teams as we look to execute award winning creative on time and budget.
You will need to have an excellent understanding of best- practices and methodology in creative marketing (brand strategy, data analytics, creative development, content production, experiential, VR/AR and banners) and champion the most effective ways of working to ensure quality of work is never compromised.
As AnalogFolk are constantly looking to innovate against an ever changing industry, you will need to to love solving problems, inspire adaptability and have an outstanding can-do attitude as we deliver new types of projects and services with our clients.
You will own and develop trusted client relationships during the project life-cycle, empowering internal teams to take well mitigated risks and build fantastic partnerships with our Folk Partner suppliers.
You will work with the wider delivery team and help lead a culture of knowledge sharing, you will manage upwards on the commercial performance of your projects and become a leading voice in your portfolio to ensure we are finding the most effective and sustainable way to deliver creative innovation.
WHAT YOU’LL DO / Roles & Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for strong scoping and estimation with your project teams. You will ensure all requirements have been carefully considered and prioritised, risks have been mitigated against and there is an outstanding level of clear documentation (SoW, Budget, Project Plan).
- You will manage a collaborative project team to ensure we are delivering to an excellent quality level and continue to produce work that is effective and award winning.
- You will display a very good understanding of industry craft and implement best practice across a full range of integrated productions and delivery workflows (creative development, strategic toolkits + data analytics, content production, digital assets, innovation [VR, 360, AR] and experiential).
- You will showcase fantastic adaptability skills and continuous willingness to flex, learn and problem solve (no matter the challenge) as AF develop new and sustainable ways of working against a broad range of new projects.
- In support of your Executive Producer, you will asses all new briefs to ensure they meet the business need, validate the commercial viability and help suggest the delivery approach / methodology accordingly.
- You will help lead and manage the operational infrastructure for your portfolio. You will demonstrate control to clients and internal stakeholders through strong financial tracking (recovery rate and revenue forecasting), effectively manage change requests / scope creep, develop status and risk documentation templates and team resourcing.
- You will be a trusted and respected partner to our clients. You will continue to add value throughout the project lifecycle by continuing to problem solve and demonstrating a strong level of control and production knowledge to drive creative solutions and maintain excellent client satisfaction rates.
- You will drive successful team collaboration and bring together multiple specialist disciplines. You will actively manage communication tools across your portfolio and mediate against any conflict to ensure productive morale and clear direction on the common objective.
- You will manage and help build fantastic relationships with a wide range of suppliers in our Folk Partner network to ensure we connect our clients with the best talent and production partners in the industry.
- You will oversee junior members of the team to ensure they have the right level of project support and troubleshoot against delivery challenges. You may have or support with line management responsibility and / or mentoring for junior team members; hold staff reviews , set personal goals and measure progress against these.
- You will need to demonstrate leadership and an entrepreneurial approach that develops new client opportunities and exhibits a high degree of independence and autonomy in decision-making.
- Work with the wider delivery team to continue to evolve and challenge our creative process to ensure we are optimised for progressive delivery partnerships with our clients.
THE EFFECT YOU’LL HAVE / Measurement & performance
- Your projects will receive industry and internal recognition for creative innovation.
- You manage projects or programmes to less than a 10% variance from the agreed estimate.
- Contribute to an organic return of business and client recommendations based on AnalogFolk’s previous delivery and reputable creative value.
- Outstanding 360 feedback from clients and the London leadership team.
- Inspired team morale and retention for your portfolio.
- Clear and transparent resourcing and client team / programme plans from the beginning of your project until the final delivery.
- Strong financial tracking and advance overrun mitigation.
- Achieves personal billability and utilisation targets.
WHAT YOU’VE DONE / Skills & Experience
- Examples of end to end campaign delivery and full 360 /integrated production experience (strategic + creative development, data analytics, content production, digital assets, innovation [VR, 360, AR] and experiential).
- 6 years+ experience working within a top global digital agency or digital communications agency in a production or project management (or equivalent) role.
- A track record of problem solving and a can-do solution attitude.
- Delivered award winning marketing for clients.
- Highly motivated, collaborative and entrepreneurial.
- Plenty experience in managing production partners and suppliers.
- Strong ethos to deliver innovative, creative solutions that have the client’s needs at the heart.
- Highly articulate communication skills (verbal and written) and excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to communicate with authority, good negotiation and influencing skills.
- Understanding of processes, workflows, tools and methodologies.
- Experience of managing projects between £500k+.
- Management of multidisciplinary teams: Strategy, Creative, Editorial and Design.
- Passion for cutting edge creative and innovation.
This is a full-time role, but we are open to part-time applicants.
Our Values
AnalogFolk is part of the AnalogFolk Group (AFG) an independent marketing and technology group. Our mission is to use digital to make the analog world better. We strive to create experiences that are remarkable and fundamentally valuable. These are our values that we ask of all our Folk…
🔎 Find a Way: Looks for opportunities that arise during times of change
📈 Fail Brilliantly: Is prepared to take risks in the pursuit of excellence. Encourages teams to do the same
✨ Be Remarkable: Encourages and inspires others to achieve with their own positive attitude. Uses lateral thinking to solve problems
🤗 Be Nice: Encourages teams to work collaboratively with others to achieve the best results
💥 Makes Things: Takes responsibility for own work and that of their teams, ensuring high quality standards are always met
And a final few things….
At AnalogFolk, we believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We’re committed to building a workplace that’s authentically diverse, representative, inclusive and respectful. That’s why we welcome all applications regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, family, or parental status.
Don’t meet every single requirement for the job role? No big deal. If what we’re doing here at AnalogFolk excites you and you’re passionate about learning, we want to hear from you. You may still be the right fit for the role, or another one.
If you love the sound of the role but need flexibility to meet other commitments, just let us know – we try to make this happen whenever we can.
