Senior Producer - Football

The Midnight Club is a 360 creative studio. A united group of creators, makers and entrepreneurs - specialising in original, progressive solutions for the world's most ambitious and adventurous brands. Through a rich understanding of the landscape and environments around us, we build concepts and stories which impact culture, make a difference and drive action. We show up with energy and personality, building magnetic campaigns with a human touch.

We’re looking for a dynamic and ambitious Senior Producer to join an exciting football production department, working across a high volume of world class global and national film and photography campaigns. You will be responsible for taking our creative team’s concepts and making them a reality whilst maintaining the highest standards, keeping on brief and delivering within budget. We’re looking for someone well-versed and experienced in all aspects of production, comfortable delivering multiple high budget projects end to end encompassing budget, team, resource and critical path management. We would especially like to hear from candidates that have experience producing football shoots.

What you’ll do:

• Devise the production approach and strategies at the start of a project - Assessing budgets, resources, timelines and feasibility.
• Working closely with the creative and strategic leads you will form part of the project leadership team - Steering the project to success through your production expertise.
• Mitigate and solve problems if and when they arise.
• Source, manage and coordinate 3rd party suppliers - building out production teams and experts.
• Hire, onboard and line manage freelance resources (Where appropriate).
• Work closely with third party production consultants to deliver the project on scope and on budget.
• Build strong internal relationships with members of the team.
• Help support and develop junior members of the team.
• Manage business affairs documents and legal sign off processes.
• Negotiate with talent agents on contract terms and fees.
• Fully reconciliation of budgets once the project has wrapped.
• Act as the client facing production expert across the project.
• Brief in creative teams on the project such as creative and art directors, retouchers, editors and composers.
• Manage all aspects of production - pre, production and post.
• Make informed autonomous decisions for projects and escalate for further approvals where necessary.
• Adhering to our local & environmental purchasing policies, reviewing the targets from our impact report.

About yourself:

• 5+ years production experience - football is a big advantage!
• A solid black book of industry contacts including freelance crew, creative teams, photographers, studios and agents.
• Strong technical production skills including all crew terms, sight on industry standards, standard APA crew rates and legal responsibilities.
• Experience in mentoring and managing junior team members.
• Proven regular success in delivering projects within the agreed budget perimeters.
• Experience in producing and line producing international productions.
• Experienced negotiator when dealing with agents.
• Previous experience in managing 3D, VFX and Animation highly desirable.
• Experience of working with high profile talent is highly desirable.
• Highly organised, analytical and process driven.
• Agile and can shake off curveballs without a sweat.
• A team player - Not scared to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in.
• Cool, calm and collected whilst under pressure.
• Flexible and comfortable with ambiguity.
• An expert in all aspects of production.
• Comfortable working with complex projects and deliverables.
• Experienced and comfortable working with budgets of up to £1m.
• Interested in culture outside of work - bringing in new perspectives.
• Passionate about sports and fashion - highly desirable.
• A portfolio of high-quality film and photographic content.
• Experience working with our main football account is another advantage.

If you are passionate about football - let us know!

Additional Company Benefits:

• 25 days paid holiday (per annum) plus Bank holidays
• Xmas office closure in addition to your Holiday entitlement
• Company healthcare for yourself with Health Shield
• Assistance programme with 24/7 confidential access as part of your Health Shield plan
• Flexible working scheme - WFH 2x per week for this role
• Mentoring programme parallel to your Line Management scheme
• Work Pension scheme
• Full access to a range of training courses
• Cycle-to-work scheme after passing probation

The Midnight Club is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws. The Midnight Club is an accredited Real Living Wage Employer.

No recruitment agencies please!