4 days ago
Senior Producer - Branded Content
Our client is an established independent creative agency that partners with national and international brands to deliver integrated content and campaign production across film, photography, digital, social, and marketing channels.
We're looking for an experienced Senior Producer for an initial 9 month contract, to lead the delivery of high-quality productions from concept through to completion.
This role is specifically suited to candidates who have worked within a creative agency, content agency, integrated marketing agency, or production company producing marketing and advertising content for brand clients.
The ideal candidate will have experience delivering a wide range of content and campaign assets, including video, photography, social content, digital campaigns, branded content, OOH, and integrated marketing campaigns. You'll be comfortable working in a fast-paced agency environment where multiple projects, stakeholders, and deadlines are managed simultaneously.
This is a hybrid role, based in central London.
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
4 to 5+ years' experience producing video and photographic content within a creative agency, content agency, integrated marketing agency, or production company.
Proven experience delivering marketing and advertising campaigns for consumer, corporate, or global brands.
A strong understanding of agency workflows and the pace, demands, and expectations of client-facing production environments.
Experience producing a broad range of content and campaign assets, including film, photography, social content, digital campaigns, branded content, and integrated marketing activity.
A proven track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously from briefing through to final delivery.
Experience managing production budgets, schedules, scopes, and resources.
Strong client-facing experience, including managing stakeholders, approvals, feedback, and expectations.
Hands-on experience coordinating shoots, including crew sourcing, talent management, locations, logistics, and post-production workflows.
Confidence leading productions independently while collaborating effectively with creative, strategy, and client service teams.
As Senior Producer, you'll oversee productions from pre-production through to final delivery, ensuring projects meet client objectives, creative standards, timelines, budgets, and performance targets.
You'll act as the primary point of contact throughout the production process, building trusted client relationships and ensuring clear, proactive communication at every stage.
Working closely with creative, strategy, and client services teams, you'll transform ideas into practical production plans, balancing creative ambition with commercial and operational requirements.
You'll maintain commercial oversight of projects throughout their lifecycle, ensuring budgets, schedules, resources, and deliverables are effectively managed.
You'll also play an important role in supporting and mentoring more junior team members, helping to develop skills, share knowledge, and strengthen production processes across the business.
Day to day:
Manage medium- to large-scale productions from planning through to final delivery.
Own project timelines, scopes, budgets, resource allocation, risk management, and delivery schedules.
Lead client communications, including project updates, approvals, feedback management, and expectation setting.
Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, suppliers, freelancers, talent, and production partners.
Lead shoots and ensure productions run efficiently, safely, and on schedule.
Monitor budgets and profitability, identifying risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
Support pitch responses and creative proposals, including sourcing talent, contributors, and influencers.
Conduct risk assessments and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and production standards.
Negotiate freelancer agreements, talent contracts, fees, and usage rights where required.
Maintain freelancer and talent databases.
Drive improvements to production processes, workflows, and documentation.
Support and mentor junior producers and production team members.
Ensure accurate project tracking, reporting, budgeting, and resource management across all assigned projects using internal project management systems.
Champion sustainable production practices and identify opportunities to reduce environmental impact.
Key Skills:
Strong understanding of pre-production, production, and post-production workflows.
Excellent project management and organisational skills.
Strong commercial awareness and budget management experience.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to problem-solve quickly and make decisions under pressure.
Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving agency environment.
Strong understanding of digital, social, content, and advertising production.
Established network of production partners, freelancers, suppliers, and creative talent.
Proactive, collaborative, and solutions-focused approach.
Handle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
