WHO ARE WE
We’re Entain. Our vision is to be the world leader in sports betting and gaming entertainment by creating the most exciting and trusted experience for our customers, revolutionising the gambling space as we go. We're home to a global family of more than 25 well-known brands such as Ladbrokes, Coral, Foxy Bingo, BETMGM, partypoker and Bwin, and sitting at the center of all of this is our internal creative agency.
Our global in-house creative agency is a team of creative thinkers and doers on a mission: to capture the pure excitement our customers feel when immersed in the game.
Our aim is to bottle that exhilarating energy and translate it into powerful campaigns for some of the most entertaining brands in the business.
The good news is we are growing. So we need talented people to help us take our work to the next level and become a truly world-class in-house creative agency.
Come join us!'
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Our in-house agency services all of Entain’s brands. We deliver over 3000 campaigns every year, spanning multiple media touchpoints, including CRM, performance marketing, TV and social.
This role is a key part of our internal creative agency. The Head of Production will oversee all work coming through the department, oversee resource planning, and will work closely with the Head of Account Management and the Head of Delivery and QC.
You will lead a production team to interpret all manner of 360 briefs ranging from making TVCs, to OOH, to Digital and social, ensuring delivery on time and on budget.
You will be responsible for the accurate costing of resource and production budgets, to deliver optimum workflow and cost efficiency.
This role is critical to developing and managing the ways of working to improve efficient, industry standard production process.
Leadership & Line Management
- Lead the Production team and freelance talent as needed.
- Build a best in class production team.
- Provide development, coaching, objectives & goal setting, performance management and other people policies as required from time to time; to ensure your team is motivated and productive.
- Build and foster a positive environment for the development of the highest quality work.
Production/Operations
- Responsible for the production of all work created by the department.
- Forward planning resource needs across all teams and efficient resource planning.
- Oversee all financial aspects of production, contracts, budgeting and weekly reconciliations.
- Scoping out projects, managing budgets, timelines and schedules across integrated campaigns / projects
- Ensure timelines are met for each phase of production.
- Ensuring all legal and compliance needs are met across all productions from shoots to design assets.
- Supporting production team to enable them to realise creative ideas efficiently and practically.
- To have a responsibility for health and safety of all Production staff and freelancers both in the office or attending shoots and ensuring the department are trained and following industry Health & Safety Procedures.
- Ensuring all work delivered is compliant with relevant governing bodies.
- Keeping up to date and developing with latest digital, edit and filming production processes and technologies and disseminating to your team.
- Build relationships with internal stakeholders, external suppliers and key partners within the wider business and beyond.
- Oversee all financial aspects of production, contracts, budgeting and weekly reconciliations.
- Maintaining clear and effective reporting systems including music detail reporting.
WHO YOU ARE
- You will have a proven track record of managing a production team in house or within agency for prominent brands.
- Extensive experience in managing multiple complex integrated cross media campaigns ATL and TTL, across video production, post production, social media, digital.
- Strong post production design background.
- Experience forecasting and managing production and supplier budgets across muplitple brands. Managing in house currency models an advantage.
- Proven experience implementing efficient production workflows.
- First class negotiation, organisational and administration skills
- Comprehensive knowledge around licensing of artistic material across all formats and locations within agreed timings, and artist’s rights.
- Brilliant interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Confident in front of senior management executives up to managing director level, and used to being client facing and working with marketers
- You are a driven self starter with energy to shape a build a team
Desirables
- Leading Resource/Studio Management teams
- A strong interest in sports and/or gaming (Poker, Bingo, Casino)
- Experience working for brands in a regulated sector
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
We offer a competitive industry salary plus a generous annual company bonus. Other benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension scheme (matched up to 6%), private healthcare, a free subscription to the wellbeing app Unmind, our share save scheme and a great selection of professional development and in house training tools for you to use.
That's not all, you will also have access to our bespoke benefits platform that allows you to choose the benefits that are most important to you. Oh, and let’s not forget regular company social events, parties and team building activities!
Our UK offices are based in London (Stratford and Farringdon) and Nottingham, where we operate on a hybrid working model. (2+ days in the office)
Sound interesting? We think so!
When applying for this role, please ensure a copy of your portfolio is LinkedIn in your application/ CV.
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