Footballco is the world’s biggest dedicated football content and media business, reaching more than 400m football fans across the world each month, with a growing roster of brands including Goal, Voetbalzone, and Spox. With over 300 employees globally, we’re a young company with established brands and serious investment behind us. Our future starts now…
What’s the role about?
We are looking for an experienced Senior Creative Producer with agency experience to join our expanding creative department. We live at the intersection of fashion, music, youth, and football culture, so we are receptive to candidates from these worlds with demonstrable capabilities of delivering engaging and impactful branded content to a global audience. Creative and innovative, the ideal candidate is passionate about the beautiful game from grassroots to professional levels.
The role is being offered on an initial 6-month FTC with the view to it becoming permanent for the successful candidate.
The successful candidate will require the ability to deliver compelling storytelling in executing branded content ideas to tight deadlines. The Senior Creative Producer will be a pivotal cog in the Footballco commercial Production team, closely aligned to FootballCo’s Creative and Design teams to support the creation of content that will engage global audiences on behalf of our clients. You will own an expansive black book and possess excellent organisational, negotiation, budgeting, and project management skills along with a deep understanding of what makes engaging video content primarily across social spaces for global brand activations.
An understanding of the latest production techniques and social media trends are a must, along with exceptional talent and client relationship management. You will be part of a team that lives for football and operates to its calendar, so excellent communication and planning skills are also essential.
What you'll be doing:
- Researching, planning, and delivering filmed content for digital platforms primarily and potentially for experiential and immersive concepts executed both domestically and globally.
- Project management inclusive of scoping through to client liaising.
- Identifying third-party partners in the UK and internationally to complement our storytelling capability while ensuring value to FootballCo is achieved when completing associated agreements.
- Securing and overseeing all production requirements for filmed, digital, experiential, and immersive productions from pre- through post-production inclusive of footage, music, and font licensing.
- Delivering content to required technical specifications.
- Ensuring safety of all crew and talent engaged on FootballCo productions both domestically and internationally.
- Accurate budget creation, management, and reporting.
- Knowledge of the rights management ecosystem relating to football content.
- Copy proofreading and video content QC.
Essential:
- Enthusiasm toward resolving creative challenges and a desire to create market-leading content by continually developing and improving the quality of our output.
- Proven capability to think ahead to solve problems before they become problems.
- Ability to plan and manage multiple tasks with attention to detail in fast-paced situations.
- A collaborative attitude to building relationships internally and externally.
- An effective communicator who is confident in communicating concepts and issues with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- An understanding of production technologies and innovation inclusive of a solid black book of key production personnel.
- Self-confidence in taking responsibility for assigned projects.
- A good understanding of football and its cultural significance.
- A can-do attitude and the necessary work ethic to handle the fast pace and sometimes unforgiving nature of the creative industry.
- Strong presentation skills and the ability to articulate your thinking to those around you.
- The ability to be extremely disciplined and ensure the agency process and protocol is fulfilled while demonstrating an adaptable approach.
- A hunger and willingness to learn and the desire to pass this on to your peers.
What you have:
- Experienced producer of filmed and digital branded content primarily.
- Effective communicator and team player who collaborates with creatives, designers, account managers, and strategists to create compelling work.
- Fully focused and organised with meticulous attention to detail.
- Impeccable numeracy and literacy skills.
- Ability to ascertain production requirements to optimally deliver creative concepts within fiscal and time constraints.
- Comprehensive experience in budget creation, tracking, and reconciling.
- Proven negotiation skills relating to talent booking, image/music licensing, and contracting with suppliers.
- Demonstrable experience in confidently communicating concepts, budgets, and issues with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong background in moving image content creation and associated technologies.
- Solid experience overseeing all facets of pre-production inclusive of crewing, talent identification, and PPM preparation.
- Firm understanding of all post-production workflows.
- An understanding of delivering for experiential spaces is beneficial.
- Comprehensive expertise of digital file formats utilised in content creation and deliveries.
- Knowledge of how branded content can complement and drive a wider strategy to encourage client audience engagement and growth.
- Comfortable and confident in working with talent.
- Experienced in conducting on-set risk assessments and all Health & Safety production protocols.
- Relevant university degree, equivalent qualification, or experience working in video production, social media, or another relevant multimedia field.
Desirable:
- Additional Arabic, Spanish, or German language skills are advantageous.
- Experiential content delivery experience is welcome.
- Experience using Unreal Engine and other immersive technologies is valuable though not essential.
Footballco is a global organisation and aims to build an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self.
Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.
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