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Bath, Gb

Bath, Gb

Bath, England, United Kingdom

○ Leading the creative vision and execution of content for the agency. Managing a team of content creators, videographers, editors, animators and graphic designers – growing the creative department and offering for the company. ○ Producing & Directing £500k+ of social content for top global brands, including; UNIQLO, easyJet Holidays, Premier Inn, 19 Crimes, Very Lazy, Edyn and Passenger. Management of both static and video assets for Organic, Paid, and Influencer content at an always-on and campaign level. ○ Collaborating with other department Directors to build a strategy-led response to brief for new business enquiries. Presenting to clients & prospective clients, building assets for pitch decks, and onboarding. ○ Presenting in weekly Director meeting, monthly full agency ‘huddle’, and actively involved in agency Podcast. ○ Storyboarding, scripting & brief writing to the highest standard. Deep understanding of results-driven performance creative to produce disruptive marketing & original storytelling. Managing Talent, prop & set design for shoots, building the agency’s approach to studio set-ups.○ Daily solution-driven problem solving, actively involved in my team’s work, guiding them through production challenges, time pressures and problematic client feedback.○ Responsible for department capacity, hiring and budgets, leading daily resource meetings to ensure scheduling of the creative team is organised and efficient. ○ Manage and delegate projects to individuals based on skillset, workload and brand awareness. Running immersion sessions and team briefings, ideation workshops & creative sprints.○ Training & upskilling team members, weekly-monthly-quarterly 1-1s, development road mapping, and building on the company offering through training.

○ Running Habitat's quarterly social media campaign as Producer-Director for Instagram, Pinterest & Facebook (organic & paid)○ Working with the Art Director and in-house Stylists & Designers to understand various product categories & trends and to translate that into authentic storytelling for their consumers○ Concepting ideas with Habitat's strategy partner, Ogilvy - delivering creative response to brief presentations, building storyboards, reference packs and scripting for all outputs○ Working with the studio team to schedule all stages of production○ Overseeing post production & managing the edit team across both film and animation

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

○ Producing content for TV, online and digital across a variety of sectors, including retail, insurance, pharma, technology, travel, hospitality and more. ○ Responsible for all stages of production, across both film and animation.○ Managing internal and ongoing freelance resource, responsible for daily team briefings and scheduling. ○ Creating production schedules, quotes, creative briefs, talent & crew contracts and deliverable lists.

Holborn, London

○ Managing high-end film production for Envision Virgin Racing (Formula E), British American Tobacco, EY & Smartly.io across different departments and for various channels, including large-scale sponsorship, product marketing, social & commercial. ○ Running multiple shoots from initial client brief through to completion. Producing, directing crews, art dept assistance during shoots and casting Talent (inc. minors), location sourcing and prop hire. ○ Active involvement in overseeing post-production.○ Creating production schedules, quotes, creative briefs, and hiring freelancers for multiple live shoots (inc. 1st ADs, Gaffer, Sparks, Make-up, Stylist, Art Dir & Assistant, and Runners).

Greater London

○ Independently overseeing simultaneous, live UK and international projects up to the value of £250k p/a, managing them from inception through to delivery.○ Producing and interviewing, directing crews during shoots and casting contributors.○ Turning client briefs into well-designed proposals with associated timings and costings.○ Script writing for animations, voiceovers and on-screen dialogue.○ Post-production experience using professional video editing software, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere.○ Content creation for comms, PR, training, social media, events, propositions, market research, consumer insight, product and concept testing.○ Responsible for over 50 ongoing client accounts with 100% positive feedback record.○ Business development using Zoho CRM software and presenting at meetings.○ People management, including overseeing staff training and development.○ Key accounts managed include: Sky, Barclays, John Lewis, Kopparberg, Marks and Spencer, Publicis, Omnicom Group, Innocent Drinks, Red Bull, Jaguar Land Rover, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, HSBC, Prudential, Co-op Group, Unilever, RSA, Vimto, JCDecaux, Costa, ITV

Soho, London

○ Responsible for Europe-wide project with Sony Professional Europe, assisting lead Video Editor in CineAlta 4K showreel ○ Compiling and analysing Televisual’s industry-wide surveys○ Writing copy for website news and blog feeds○ Interviewing at industry events and acting as social media correspondent