Freelance Brand Producer - London, United Kingdom - Maverick Media

Description

Are you an experienced Senior Producer (Account Specific) looking for a great job in an award-winning studio, working on amazing video games advertising? For a quarter-century, we've been creating trail-blazing & award-winning work for the world's most prestigious games publishers, developers and brands.

Our top-notch team of creatives, designers and producers are always ahead of the game, ready to take client's marketing to the next level.

As such, we are an equal opportunities employer, and we take diversity and inclusion seriously.

Maverick regularly assesses and reviews the environmental impact of our operations. Are you keen to be a key player in leading a significant and substantial account for Maverick?
Do you get excited about owning processes and logistics of a big account, overseeing all stages of the lifecycle?
Do you feel energised to manage the performance and quality of output of various production staff and producers on the account?
Excited about working on Trailers, TV Ads, Design, Social Campaigns and more for Video Games?

As a Senior Producer (Account Specific) at Maverick, you will be given the opportunity to work with one of the biggest brands in the video games/entertainment industry.

Planning

Create and administrate a 'master' schedule for all live projects, liaising with producers and using our contracts and SOWs with the client.

Ensure all stages of the project lifecycle are kept on track and delivered to the best of our abilities, by overseeing the creation and communication of individual project status.

Work with Producers, Head of Production and Head of Creative services to support, define and manage the resource planning of the account, including internal and external talent / suppliers for individual projects, well in advance.

Work with the wider team to decide on the best creative and production approach to achieve the brief/s.
Work closely with the Creative Strategist to forward-plan pipeline projects, strategy and asset delivery requests. Communicating said asset requests with the relevant producer.
Be mindful and create capacity for additional work on the account that may not be planned for.

Deliver good value to the client and profits to Maverick by overseeing the creation and management of budgets and the overall account cost tracker.

Coordinate and oversee all stages of the project lifecycle; assessment of briefs, project kick offs, strategy, creative development, pitching, production, post-production, delivery and wash-up/debriefs.

Leverage experience via line management of your direct reports, and ensure their performance and output is good.

Work with the Head of Production and other department heads to ensure the performance and output of other various staff and producers (not your direct reports) that work on the account / account projects (creatives, strategists, client services, etc) is good.

Ensure any budget changes are fair, properly documented on the account tracker and communicated with the client.
Ensure Maverick gets a 'good service' from freelancers and suppliers.

Build strong relationships with suppliers, engaging them so that they are motivated to deliver high quality results for Maverick's clients.

how we store and use client assets, how we record and communicate internal client questions and client feedback (e.g. on an internal status tracker, on emails and on SharePoint), keeping to turnaround times for amends, ensuring deliverables made to spec, etc.

Lead final delivery of every project to both the client and the media agency, ensuring the correct quality control procedures have been followed accurately.

Work with the Account Brand Director and other Maverick staff to ensure that our communications, presentations and other production elements are kept to process and the optics with the client are 'excellent'.

Ensure we are holding the client to account with deadlines, feedback and assets.
Ensure all processes support and enable the account work to be creatively excellent.
Help consolidate and organize lines of communication (particularly email threads, Teams channels, Slack, etc)

Make sure of accurate internal project reporting and administration on projects, including ensuring all project information is kept updated in FileMaker.

Working with the Creative Strategist, keep on top of the live media agency agenda and shared project status documents.

Build on our great relationship with the client by being the primary day-to-day point of contact for all projects.

Work with the Account Brand Director to keep our client fully informed at all times, up to date with projects and happy with all aspects of our service through regular contact.

Attend and contribute to the Quarterly Client Review with the Head of Client Services and Account Brand Director.
Attend and contribute to comprehensive debriefs that take place with the client upon completion of projects.
Large breadth of experience in producing/project management in a production or agency environment.
Experienced in coordinating the creative development and pitching process.
Confident managing production and staff across a single large client account, with multiple simultaneous projects running.
Excellent knowledge of post-production/animation workflows.
Besides the easily accessible central London office and our hybrid working model , other benefits are just as important Private medical insurance
~ Life insurance
~ 24 days holiday + 1 birthday holiday day + Christmas & New Year closure + Bank holidays per annum
~2 extra days holidays for your wedding / civil partnership
~Extended leave for family leave.
~ Work from Home allowance
~(Optional) Shares Purchase Plan
~ Employee Assistance Programme (incl. Free Perkbox subscription (access to over 1000 discounts and free perks)
~ Bike2Work scheme
~ Office games and consoles
~ Fun company events and an always fully stocked drinks fridge in the office
~(Optional) The opportunity to join our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Dream Team and/or Wellbeing Warriors committees
~ A competitive salary and a discretionary bonus package

(Please be aware that Maverick is unable to sponsor for visas

Email your CV and cover letter with the subject "I'm Maverick's new Senior Producer"