Digital Content Producer & Studio Manager

Way To Blue are offering an opportunity to become a key member of the creative team, at one of the UK’s top entertainment specialists.

We are looking to recruit a talented, organised and proactive Digital Content Producer & Studio Manager to join our growing Creative Producing team based in our London HQ. This role is a unique opportunity to have an impact on WTB’s mission along with offering you the prospect to manage some of our most important creative initiatives within TV and Film Brands.

This position is full-time, and at times might require evening and weekend work depending on our clients’ needs, but we are flexible where possible. In addition, the teamwork both from home and our central London office in Fitzrovia.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing:

Your day-to-day tasks will include (but not limited to):

• Lead on managing the creative studio, managing the work in and out to ensure we are resourced correctly, and the production process runs through the studio in a timely manner.
• Working proactively to bring in new business and briefs for the creative team from existing clientele and supporting senior management on new client prospecting.
• Quality control and cross-checking creative output to ensure work is produced to the quality standards of the Way to Blue brand, exactly to client brief and delivered in a timely manner
• Management of Production Assistant.
• Support production assistant to proof and check production briefs, content outline and scripts.
• Work with Creative Director to lead on creative ideation in brainstorms and apply your knowledge of what works best on social to this process.
• Be the first port of call for production expertise with both client and account servicing teams, preparing quotations and workflows for individual projects
• Coordinate content shoots on and off location, working with the production assistant in preparing call sheets and schedules, briefing everyone involved and handling the day-to-day details prior to and during the shoot – including shoot attendance and on-site producing where required.
• Occasionally applying your art direction and styling skills to production, working closely with our team to push production boundaries, enhance our reputation and contribute to the development of long-lasting client relationships.
• Attend weekly progress meetings and briefings across campaigns. Interrogate proposed budgets, agree estimates, assign responsibility, and oversee project progress.
• Track and manage production budgets.
• Initiating and leading content production projects to tight deadlines and budgets.
• Work closely with the senior team to escalate issues in a timely manner and work collectively to provide solutions.
• Sourcing, quoting, briefing and managing external agencies or 3rd party producers or service providers
• Manage the creative development process and partnership with client servicing teams.
• Maintain a strong oversight, alongside the creative director, of production of platform-ready creative assets with in-house production studio, including images, motion graphics, and video elements.
• Ensure admin and paperwork for projects is completed in a timely manner including statements or work, supplier agreements and purchase orders.
• Liaison with clients and managing client communications across multiple projects to facilitate creative requirements across multiple clients.
• On occasion, out of office hours will be required to support events and to liaise with our offices in different territories. Time spent out of hours will be given back in lieu.

What Way To Blue will provide:

• You’ll have flexible working, with you working week split between the office and home
• You will be given a dedicated line manager who will be your guide and day to day contact
• You will be invited to exclusive industry events including preview screenings and launch events
• Organised social events from Christmas and summer parties to Fizzy Friday drinks
• Where necessary and if of interest, training in areas beyond social media such as Creative, Finance and HR will be provided

A bit about you, you’ll have…

•  An excellent understanding of the social media & digital content industry and platforms
• Strong organizational skills and ability to run multiple projects concurrently
• Willing team player, capable of cross functional collaboration. 
• Solution focussed, ready and willing to find solutions and answers to challenges and client problems
• Able to work at pace, independently and take the initiative.
• Flexible and adaptable, able to react quickly to changing requirements and new challenges.
• Creative and solution focused, problem solving and passionate about tv and film
• Upwards and downwards people management essential
• Line management experience is preferred but not required
• Experience using Trello is preferred but not required

A bit about us…

Established in 1996, we have transformed over the years from a digital PR communications business to a fully integrated communications offering across multiple markets. We are market leaders in our field and pride ourselves on being agile.

Our culture is what defines us. With specialist entertainment and consumer full-service marketing teams in each of our core offices, we pride ourselves on being globally collaborative, flexible and agile.

What’s it’s really like to work here?

We believe in empowering our people with the ability to improve themselves personally and professionally. Our values are important to us, and we make these central to everything we do whether it’s for our clients or for us.

We care deeply about building an inclusive, open and supportive work environment. We believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company.

We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So, if you’ve got great experience, you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.

Way To Blue