Junior - Middle-weight Producer

Join a leading financial insurance company as their Mid-weight Producer and assist the creative and production team with TV ad campaigns.

Responsibilities:

• Set up and book all briefings, director treatments, meetings between production and suppliers and any other meetings as may be required
• Source clients for testimonial campaigns
• Assist production house with contacting clients, preparing them for shoots, liaising with regard to call sheets etc
• Ensure that flighting codes are timeously obtained from media, and manage the process of obtaining new flighting codes
• Assisting the production manager / creative lead where possible
• Sitting in on budget presentations where possible to better understand the budgeting process
• Analysing all budgets to benchmark production costs and input into areas where costs may be cut and profitability improved
• Maintaining a production cost spreadsheet with costs per campaign and analysis of production costs on an ongoing basis
• Liaising with artists’ agents on artists’ remuneration and preparation of artists’ contracts prior to shooting
• Updating production folders on the server and on Adstream timeously
• Have extensive knowledge of current broadcast work in circulation as well as directors and production house capabilities and be able to offer an informed recommendation as to which directors are suitable for each campaign
• Show ongoing initiative and apply an intuitive/pro-active approach to assisting with a production by checking in regularly with the creative lead and seeing if there is anything that requires attention or follow up rather than waiting for instructions
• Act as the main point of contact to external producers and stay on top of all ongoing email updates concerning the production
• Make the first attempt at answering questions from external producers in a thorough and helpful way

Requirements

• Independent and meticulous
• Creative flair and innovative thinker
• Incredibly well spoken with strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Strong writing skills and attention to detail
• Relationship management
• Strategy and project management skills
• The ability to manage multiple tasks within tight deadlines