Director, Executive Producer, Brunswick Creative Full Time

Brunswick Group
Opportunity

As an Executive Producer, you have a key role to play in shaping the creative output of the film department and driving quality and service throughout the team.

You are expected to think strategically and innovatively, take personal responsibility for getting things done, set an example to others and make a positive contribution to the wider business.

You are responsible for leading and mentoring Senior Producers, Producers, Assistant Producers and Production Assistants, as well as managing freelancers and suppliers. At all times ensuring people are clear about their roles and responsibilities and able to deliver to the best of their ability.

You have a proven track record across a wide range of programme styles, from animation to brand films, documentary to talking heads. You will have advanced project planning and project management skills and be able to successfully deliver multiple projects to the highest of standards.

You are likely to be involved at every stage of the process – from taking, interrogating, and shaping a brief, liaising with the client, writing a creative treatment, resourcing, budgeting, and scheduling; to producing, post-producing and delivering filmed output.

You will work collaboratively, inspire others to do the same, and actively look for ways to encourage more integration across Brunswick Creative teams, practice groups and specialist offers.

Working to the Film Partner and Group Head of Creative, you are responsible for ensuring we use resources efficiently and effectively to deliver projects for our clients on time and on budget.

In the best interests of the company, the client, and the success of our projects, you will be collegiate and seek direction and advice from other senior leaders and experts within the wider business.

Most importantly, you are responsible for ensuring that the highest standards of health, safety and compliance are always maintained, and that the Brunswick Creative film production process is followed by all members of the film team.

Key Responsibilities

Your role has a key focus on client management and development. You are expected to make informed, considered, commercial decisions that drive value and support others in doing the same. More specifically:

• You are responsible for managing, developing, and retaining relationships and driving new business across a range of clients to the highest level.
• You must work to ensure that Brunswick Creative achieves target margins across all its film work.
• You must show an excellent understanding of the client’s business and be proactive in keeping up to speed with their aims, issues, and concerns.
• You will be able to give the client informed, professional advice on how they can use film creatively and more effectively to communicate with their key audiences.
• You will write proposals and be part of the pitch process to new and existing clients.
• You will have excellent knowledge of the range of Brunswick Creatives offers, capabilities and expertise and be able to advise clients and introduce them to your colleagues as appropriate

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies

Be able to demonstrate:

• Client impact/relationship building: delivers effective client relationships and solutions leading to long-term, integrated relationships, drives the highest standard of work for clients at all times and develops the relationship beyond a project basis. Networks externally, with prospects and within Brunswick including participating at seminars and awards.
• Strong communication skills: presents effectively, reads room dynamics and responds appropriately, listens, questions, delivers clear and concise instructions/advice, both written and verbal.
• Efficient administration: strong organisation, including the ability to prioritise, juggle multiple projects and delegate effectively.
• Internal contribution/leadership: contributes towards overall business plans, supporting business development and income generation, drives internal projects that make a difference, leads by example, is seen to be delivering, manages and nurtures team effectively, works collaboratively with others, works with everyone in the office equally well and actively promotes shared learning.
• Ideas generation: strives to problem-solve creatively and encourages and supports others to do so, delivers ideas (large and small) that change the business.

Our Benefits

In addition to life assurance, group income protection, and employer pension contribution, we offer:

• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days’ annual leave, excluding bank holidays (plus your Birthday off)
• Private medical cover and employee assistance programme
• Family-friendly policies
• Complimentary artisan coffee, tea and snacks, served by our own barista
• Daily breakfast in the café
• Lunch & Learn training sessions
• Cycle 2 work scheme and season ticket loans
• Flexible working, including support with your home working environment
• Eye care, including annual eye tests
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
• A comprehensive training and development curriculum

• Give as you Earn
• Menopause Policy

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Maintaining and strengthening a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace are pillars of Brunswick’s culture and key to our future success. Valuing and supporting every colleague as an individual while helping them reach their full potential is critical to attracting and developing our greatest strength – our people. By embracing our differences and diverse perspectives we create richer experiences within our firm and enhance the quality of the ideas and advice that we deliver to our clients.

Brunswick is an equal opportunities employer and our Equal Opportunities Policy is available on request.

About Brunswick Group

Brunswick is a critical issues firm. We advise the world’s leading companies on how to navigate the critical issues they face and engage with their critical stakeholders.

Our purpose is to help our clients play their role in the world more successfully. We help the leaders of the world’s great value-creating organizations operate successfully across the increasingly complex and fast-changing arenas of finance, politics and society at large.

Brunswick is one firm globally, operating as a single profit centre. This allows us to respond seamlessly and effectively to clients’ needs wherever they are in the world.

Background

Founded in London in 1987, Brunswick’s global partnership has grown organically to 27 offices in 18 countries. We began as a M&A and financial communications firm and, over time, expanded our capabilities to provide expert advice to our clients on a range of business critical issues. We invested in new offices, sector teams and practice groups including investor engagement; shareholder activism; governance; regulatory and public affairs, including geopolitical; crisis; litigation; social issues including climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion; cyber security, data and privacy; employee engagement; digital communications; opinion research and analysis, and; creative services.

Our CEO is Neal Wolin, based in Washington, D.C. Our Chairman is Sir Alan Parker, based in London.