HEAD OF PRODUCTION (BRANDED CONTENT)

STV is Scotland’s home of news, entertainment and drama, serving audiences with quality content on air, online and on demand. STV’s broadcast channel reaches 3 million viewers each month, while STV Player, the UK’s fastest-growing broadcaster streaming service, is now pre-installed in three quarters of the UK’s connected TV homes. Multi-genre production company STV Studios – one of the UK’s leading content businesses – has an impressive track-record of success across a wide range of broadcasters. STV’s Inhouse Creative team are the ones behind the big ideas that make our brand stand out. Working in collaboration with Marketing, the Inhouse Creative team create campaigns that promote the award-winning shows on STV and STV Player, as well as supporting important initiatives like STV Zero and the STV Children’s Appeal. We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Campaign Production on a 12-month fixed term contract to provide maternity cover. Produce and deliver priority multiplatform campaigns which include on-air promos & TV commercials, social, digital and print deliverables, to ensure a smooth creative and production process and positive outcome for our stakeholders. Manage and oversee a small team of Campaign Producers who are responsible for project managing and delivering STV’s multiplatform marketing campaigns, providing advice and troubleshooting throughout each campaign. Work closely with our Resources Manager to evaluate and manage resource across the Campaign Production team, allocating and tracking work to ensure the Production team is operating at capacity. Develop and maintain close, collaborative working relationships with the Inhouse Creative team’s Creative Director, Lead Creative and Lead Designer, as well as STV’s Head of Marketing, Digital Marketing Manager and other key stakeholders around the business. Provide ongoing training, professional and pastoral support for direct reports. Manage and maintain relationships with external parties such as voiceover agencies, music libraries, casting agents etc. Ensure all material produced is compliant with legal & regulatory requirements. Assist with compliance and local clearance of marketing assets. Experience in a similar role in the creative advertising industry, or ready to progress from a senior producer or senior account manager role within a digital, design, social media or creative advertising agency. Practical experience in producing small to medium scale shoots for motion content campaigns. Proven experience of working within budgetary, financial and legal/ regulatory parameters. Strong communication skills with the ability to support creative pitches in a client-facing environment. Demonstrable passion for advertising, branding and marketing and an understanding of changing media landscape and broadcast and digital platforms. STV Group plc is an equal opportunities employer committed to valuing and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates underrepresented in our industry, so we are keen to hear from ethnically diverse talent and people that identify as disabled, deaf and/or neurodivergent. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.