Executive Producer

About Us

Emperor is for your great ambitions. We're an employee-owned corporate communications and creative agency with more than 240 partners specialising in brand, film, reporting, digital, employee engagement, change and sustainability.

We want to be the agency of choice for ambitious talent. So, we’re looking for brilliant people who actively want to create great things with us.

Our culture is one where you’re free to do, learn and achieve better. We welcome every partner to experience a sense of belonging; whoever you are, wherever you’re working from, whatever your role. Our values guide how we work every day, with each other, our clients, and suppliers – and with our friendly inclusive environment, effort and empathy, we make the feeling real.

Our employee-owned status helps us see working life differently, purposefully, collectively. We’re proudly B-Corp and we’re fully committed to responsible business that leaves a positive footprint for our clients, our partners, communities, and society.

The Role (6-month Fixed Term Contract)

As an Executive Producer or a Senior Producer looking for the next step up, your role will be two-fold.

To scope, manage, coordinate and deliver all production projects within a defined client portfolio, as well as work closely alongside the Director of Moving Image to further refine and integrate production thinking into and across Emperor.

You will build a close working relationship with (and report to) the Director of Moving Image, acting as a conduit between the client, moving image team and wider agency teams.

You will eventually line manage a team of in-house producers and their own more junior direct reports.

Key & Additional Responsibilities

• Day to day oversight of production operations, process, workflow & wider integration of Moving Image team protocols across Emperor
• Develop long lasting and trusted relationships with clients and client-facing account teams internally
• Ensure that craft and quality is at an optimum level and all times across the production desk
• Lead producers in their client relationships to meet immediate needs and plan for future requirements
• Act as the lead producer on particular shoots – be that creative, production or directorial as may be relevant/required
• Ensure that processes and workflows, including triage, asset management and reporting are consistent with SLA’s and best practices
• Produce costings and timings for projects
• Organise and attend shoots, engage with directors, book crews and source locations
• Ensure that projects are produced to a high creative standard, delivered on time and within the agreed budget
• Liaising with the Director of Moving Image to capture and service all motion and post-production needs
• Maintain constant communication with Creative, Moving Image and Account Management
• Play an active role in problem solving and innovating to find solutions
• Check that all work is reconciled correctly and comes in within the agreed budget
• Continually define ways to increase the efficiency of how we produce content, including SLA’s and wider best practice
• Alongside the Director of Moving Image, act as point of escalation for issues emerging from the Moving Image team
• Revenue reporting working with Finance and Creative Services Manager including WIP and billings
• Feeding into 2024-2025 growth plan including resourcing, pricing and service evolution

Example KPIs

• Improve production profitability across your client portfolio by 10%
• Improve revenue from your client portfolio by 25%
• Create a roster of (video & animation) directors and DOPs that produce high quality work and are bought in to the agency’s ethos
• Work with the Finance and Operations functions to make sure any live production tracking and invoice logs are up to date at all times

Next Steps

If you are successfully shortlisted for the role, the recruitment team will be in touch via email, and the process will begin from there. We endeavour to contact you within 5 working days of your application, however, this may vary depending on the volume of applications we receive. Good Luck!
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