Head of Video Production

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Job Description

Head of Video Production

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Your team: This is your chance to join a talented team, redefining how content is created and consumed, contributing to creative, innovative video output that drives traffic and revenue, as we redefine how a brand at the heart of the nation's conversation finds innovative new ways to tell the stories that matter in the fast-paced digital world.

If you're passionate about video production and operations and eager to shape how video is produced and delivered across platforms, we want you on our team.

Your role:You will play a critical role in executing our multi-platform video strategy supporting the Director of Video. You will own the production process from concept to delivery, ensuring seamless execution across all operational aspects. From overseeing the safety of shoots and managing facilities to negotiating payments and rights management, you'll be the glue that holds our video production efforts together. Your leadership will drive efficiency, quality, and innovation in our video operations.

Day to day you will:

• Production Management: Lead end-to-end video production, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest creative and technical standards.
• Operational Leadership: Implement streamlined processes for production, ensuring efficient workflows, resource management, and clear communication between teams.
• Budgets and Schedules: Oversee the allocation of budgets and set the production schedules across all video production.
• Health & Safety: Enforce industry-standard health and safety protocols on all shoots, guaranteeing safe environments for talent and crew across diverse locations.
• Video Equipment Management: Oversee the acquisition, maintenance, and deployment of cutting-edge video equipment, ensuring that all technical needs are met to produce high-quality content.
• People & Crew Management: Recruit, manage, and lead production teams, from camera operators to post-production editors, ensuring high performance and collaboration on set and in the office.
• Payments & Negotiations: Handle payments and negotiate rates with contractors, talent, and suppliers to ensure cost-effective production without compromising on quality.
• Rights & Licensing Management: Manage content rights, licensing agreements, and intellectual property issues, ensuring that all video content complies with legal standards and maximises monetization opportunities.
• Cross-Platform Execution: Work with the creative and distribution teams to ensure that video content is optimised for various digital platforms, including social media, streaming, and web-based outlets.
• Industry Knowledge: Stay ahead of the curve with the latest trends, technologies, and regulations in video production, ensuring that the brand remains competitive and compliant.

What we're looking for from you:

• Experienced Video Production Leader: You have deep expertise in video production, including logistics, planning, and execution. You've successfully managed large-scale video projects and thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Technical Master:You have an in-depth understanding of video workflows equipment, the latest technology, and how to leverage it for top-tier production quality.
• Health & Safety Expert: You understand the critical importance of safety on set and have a proven track record of implementing and adhering to stringent health and safety guidelines.
• Negotiation Skills: Strong experience in negotiating payments, contracts, and rights, ensuring that productions are both cost-effective and legally sound.
• Industry-Savvy: You're well-versed in the latest trends and regulations in video production, distribution, and rights management, allowing you to navigate complex operational challenges with ease.
• Collaborative Leader: You're a people person who knows how to bring teams together, manage different stakeholders, and inspire high performance at every level of production.
• Problem Solver: You think quickly on your feet and can troubleshoot issues that arise on set, in the studio, or in post-production to ensure smooth operations.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include TalkTV, talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Access to exclusive events Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
• We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].