Assistant Producer

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom BBH Full time
Job Description

Key responsibilities will include:

 

Responsible for assisting Producers across the planning and delivery of projects across multiple clients, working with multiple production partners.

Assisting your Producer with budget breakdowns, timing plans, resource schedule, industry contracts, Business Affairs admin and financial admin.

Producing radio commercials, mood films, adaptations, small scale productions and award case studies.


 

Purpose:

The role of the Assistant Producer is to support the Producers in the department to help the generation, crafting and production of great ideas into film. 

 

Areas of accountability:

 

  • Always represent the Agency in a professional manner. 

  • Practise front-foot Producer support, planning ahead, knowing your timings inside out, knowing the team’s movements and planning around these commitments.

  • Develop strong relationships with your Producer, your team and your production partners.

  • Support your Producer to maintain project timing and learning to look ahead and anticipate challenges throughout the project. In addition, manage timings on your own projects.

  • To ensure the best quality of output on what we deliver for our clients.

  • Management and accountability for budget spends.

  • Creating the right conditions and morale for teamwork.

  • Can manage your workload effectively and efficiently.


Qualifications

The core responsibilities of the Assistant Producer role can be broadly broken down into the following areas:

 

Financial skills

  • Excellent attention to detail.

  • Understand the production budget and all expenditure on the project you are assisting on.

  • On your own projects, be able to manage costs, deliver against a budget and be accountable for all production cost management (billing, reconciliation etc..).

  • Proactively work to control and reduce costs where possible.

  • Learn to treat the client and agency money as if it is your own.

  • Demonstrate a strong sense of commercial responsibility - understanding the importance of POs, billing and reconciliations.

 

People skills

  • Curious and constantly seeking to learn.

  • To be considered friendly and approachable, a go to person.

  • Grow professional, practical and successful working relationships with internal and external clients:  Account management, Creative dept, Project management,  Design, Mission Possible, Finance, Media companies, Clients, Production Companies, Edit houses, Sound Studios, Post houses, Music Sync companies, Talent engagement companies and IP Licensing companies

  • Demonstrate clear, concise and action oriented communication and listening skills. 

 

Management Skills

  • Deliver all tasks to deadline OR flag where this is not possible to your Producer in advance.

  • On your own projects, develop and execute a plan of action including detailed timings to manage all internal and external stakeholders.

  • Outstanding organisational skills, means you are always on the front foot with key information to hand.

  • Beginning to demonstrate an understanding of your production partner’s needs, and the client and BBH’s commercial landscape. 

 

Entrepreneurial

  • Self starter, who is innovative in their approach to problem solving and prepared to think laterally on any given task.

  • Bring all of you to work, your passions, your hobbies, creative pursuits and side hustles.

 

Creative  

  • Passionate about production and the best expression of a creative idea within the parameters of the production.

  • Identify great work and production talent and articulate why it is great work.  

  • Understand and interpret creative and client feedback, and begin to understand feedback channels and the importance of this in the overall production schedule.

  • Demonstrate sound creative judgement and can voice your opinion within creative conversations, including internal creative reviews

  • Read both industry and creative titles to keep up to date with the latest production talent and keep both your team and the creative department up to date with this.

 

 

 

 

 

Job Specification

 

Knowledge

  • A basic understanding of the agency process, some commercial experience, interest and/or some production knowledge and an understanding of financial management.

  • Getting to know production companies, etc, along with an inquisitive mind always seeking new director and production partner talent etc

 

Attitude

  • Resilience, positivity, inventiveness, drive, charisma, hardworking, energetic

  • Always remains positive and motivated, inspiring colleagues to maintain a similar attitude.

  • Great communication skills - able to build good relationships with their peers in the agency despite pressure or adversity.

  • To be solution driven – to be inquisitive, tenacious and determined. Always looking for new ways to deliver groundbreaking work.

  • Open and willing to share their knowledge of digital advancements and technology with the team as well as the wider agency.

  • A Team player who embraces the agency culture, gets involved with the various initiatives, enjoys working in a team, celebrates the successes of the agency and their peers and keeps pushing for better work.

 

Skills/Abilities

  • Management Skills – with training have an ability to develop and execute a plan of action.   

  • Relationship skills – the ability to develop internal and external trusted relationships – ie.: be a trusted partner for clients on all aspects of delivery; as well as forge productive relationships internally. 

  • Financial skills – with training be able to manage costs, deliver against a budget and be accountable for all production cost management (billing, reconciliation etc.). Proactively work to control costs.

  • Entrepreneurial – a self starter, who is innovative in their approach to problem solving and wants to get things done.  An appetite to learn and develop further is a must, with a passion for innovation and thinking outside the box.

  • Safe pair of hands – utterly un-knockable and reliable, good organisational skills

  • Able to multi-task i.e. managing multiple projects.



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