Producer – Relocate to Melbourne, Australia for 12 months
- Inventors of the most powerful, iconic TV ad platform driving brand sales
- Fun agency environment working with some of the world’s biggest FMCG companies
- Relocate to Melbourne, Australia for 12 months ASAP!
- We will pay your relocation costs including visas, health insurance, flights and initial accommodation
The Role
Using The Brand Power Company endorsement platforms and best-practice formulas, our Creative and Production team produces creative content to drive sales for many of the world’s major FMCG companies, including P&G, Nestle and Loreal.
Reporting to the Global Creative & Production Director, you will be responsible for overseeing and controlling the technical and deliverable aspects of all Buchanan productions. You will work as part of a small, high-performing team to deliver an efficient and effective production process from the kickoff call to the airing, ensuring you are with our clients every step of the way.
The Brand Power Company (formerly Known As Buchanan Group)
The Brand Power Company (a WPP company) is the world’s leading provider of endorsement advertising platforms across television, digital and social. We’re big fans of authentic. Not just in the solutions we provide clients globally, but in the people we welcome to our team. Genuine team players up for collaborating, creating and celebrating awesome results for our clients.
We know passion beats pretense and that it’s the down-to-earth who best step up to any challenge. We champion diversity. We collaborate across sixteen offices worldwide. We’re expanding into new markets. We’re committed to solutions that drive measurable results for our clients. And we play as hard as we work.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing project timelines, production budgets, and supplier relationships
- Coordinating the sourcing, scouting, and booking of location, equipment, crew, and talent
- Managing shoot days, including setup, freelance crew, equipment, catering, wardrobe, props, client
- Administering the slating, trafficking, and distribution of final production assets
- Consulting for clients, ensuring excellent responsiveness and service
- Managing movement of information between client and internal teams
- Liaising with clients, networks, and approval bodies to ensure creative approvals
- Conducting pre-production meetings and conference calls with clients
What you can do is more important to us than what you have done previously.
We value an open mind, a desire to succeed, and good old-fashioned hard work over a laundry list of skills. If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every box, then we absolutely encourage you to give us a shot. We’d love to meet and get to know the real you, as well as see what else is in your toolbox.
Qualifications And Experience Wishlist
- Post-secondary education in production or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 4-5 years of TV/video production experience
- Knowledge of media production and communication techniques and methods
- High levels of initiative, self-motivation, and time management
- Outstanding time management skills, high levels of attention to detail, and a willingness to problem-solve
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent computer skills, including MS Office
- Client service experience is beneficial
Features tell.. but our Benefits SELL!
- A competitive salary, loads of leave entitlements including 4 weeks leave entitlement
- Training, training and more training
- Hybrid work model
- A fun advertising agency work environment
- Excellent international career opportunities in a high growth company
We’re big fans of authenticity.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to who we are, and what has always made us tick. We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We don’t discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. You may think we care about your purple hair or love of cats, but we don’t. We believe treating everyone with authenticity and respect simply gives us the best chance of delivering success.
The Brand Power Company (formerly Buchanan Group)
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