Senior Creative

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Is This The Role For You?

In 2025, Channel 5 and My5 are joining forces under one powerful new brand: 5 - delivering an all-new, unified experience across TV, streaming, and digital platforms. We're looking for passionate individuals to help shape this next chapter. This unified brand will revolutionize TV, streaming, and digital platforms, offering expanded free streaming services, more UK drama originals, and specially curated FAST channels.

With personalisation and cutting-edge, data-driven advertising solutions, 5 is set to lead the future of entertainment. After an impressive year of industry-leading growth, including a 40% surge in viewership in 2024, 5 is gearing up to transform the viewing experience- and we want you to be a part of it!

Help us create a brand that delivers unlimited entertainment, always free. Join the team driving the 5 relaunch and shape the future of how the world watches.

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Creative on Channel 5 you will lead the creative execution of multiplatform campaigns, leading all aspects of the overall ideation, directing, editing and copywriting of trailers, promos, key art and social executions to launch new shows and content bundles.

One of four Senior Creatives, you will report into and work closely with the Creative Director to ensure Channel 5's creative strategy and tone of voice cuts through across all touchpoints in a crowded UK marketplace.

You will line manage other Creatives and work in close collaboration with the rest of the department, including Design, Production, Marketing, Social, Press and Media Planning.

What are we looking for?

• Extensive experience working at a senior level within a creative team, you will lead by example and demonstrate strong leadership and collaboration skills
• Experience of working on multiplatform campaigns with creative executions across all media touchpoints, with especially strong experience producing social assets either as part of wider campaigns or for purely social activity
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with great attention to detail
• Excellent editing skills - preferably in Adobe Premiere - superb at supervising offline / online edits, managing and delivering feedback
• Extensive experience collaborating with designers to create key campaign imagery as well as 2D/3D motion design elements
• Excellent script and copywriting skills
• Comfortable working under pressure in a fast-paced environment with multiple partners
• Used to working within tight budgets and timeframes whilst still delivering creative excellence
• Strong understanding of and ability to work to marketing briefs, crafting creative ideas to fit the brief and always able to flex and adapt to feedback
• First class showreel of creative work demonstrating all of the above
• Please make sure to include a working link to your online showreel / portfolio in your application (together with any passwords if needed for access)

Channel 5 is an award-winning public service broadcaster and the UK's third latest commercial TV station, reaching 3 in 4 of the UK viewing public each month. The channel has a diverse schedule of original programmes across genres including issue-led documentaries, popular factual, accessible history, stunning natural history, inclusive entertainment and reality, top level sport, high quality scripted programming, headline-grabbing current affairs and critically acclaimed children's and news programming. Channel 5 is a unit of Paramount Global.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

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