Senior Commercial Producer

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Job Description

Your team: The Broadcasting Digital team are responsible for all video, social and web content created for our brands TalkSport, Virgin Radio UK, TImes Radio, Talk and Piers Morgan Uncensored. Working closely with our editorial colleagues, this covers everything from long-form features to short reactive clips and is essential in building our audiences and driving revenue.

Your role: Commercial partnerships are a key part of our business and this role will take responsibility for the planning and delivery of those projects. Working closely with editorial, strategy, design and our in-house studio teams, you will develop ideas for videos, create timelines, select and book talent, write scripts and brief crew and guests to ensure everything on the day runs smoothly. Primarily focused on talkSPORT, an interest in football and ideally boxing are essential, and experience of working on commercial projects preferred.

Day to day you will:

• Liaise closely with the commercial sales team on new briefs
• Ideate original concepts for commercial social video content and be able to write these up and present them to both internal and external clients
• Create and manage production budgets for individual projects
• Work closely with editorial to ensure commercial projects feel native while still hitting client KPIs
• Create and work to timelines with regular updates on milestones
• Suggest and book talent to appear in shows, liaising with agents and negotiating fees
• Write scripts where appropriate and prepare queue cards and autocue notes where appropriate
• Attend shoots if on location, plan and run the itinerary of the day
• Brief the filming crew and ensure set-ups are as you want them
• Oversee the final edit and take responsibility for delivery of versions and manage approvals appropriately

What we're looking for from you:

• Follow the sports news agenda closely and be completely across the latest stories and trends
• Fully immerse yourself in talkSPORT, Virgin Radio, Times Radio and Talk and be completely familiar with our presenters, schedule and platform analytics
• Have direct experience of working in a similar role as a content producer either in-house or agency side, ideally with commercial experience
• You have a go-to black book of industry contacts
• You are incredibly proactive, restless and driven to get things done, we work fast!
• Unflappable under pressure with an ability to multitask across multiple projects and react quickly if things change

We are News UK: 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 talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

• We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
• 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 covering pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
• 'Bikes for Work' scheme
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.