Assistant Producer, Entertainment (12 Month FTC) - Sky Creative

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

It’s an exciting time for entertainment at Sky, with bigger shows, bigger stars and our award-winning Sky Studios.

As Assistant Producer, you’ll support in the production of advertising campaigns across Sky’s portfolio of entertainment, collaborating with multiple producers and stakeholders, encouraging a breadth of learning opportunity and understanding of how Sky works. 

This role is both creative and administrative i.e., briefing creative teams, but also having a firm grasp on the detail of a variety of projects. The ideal candidate will have exposure to shoots and/or promos.

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What you’ll do:

• Assist Producers and wider team in the production of high quality 360 advertising campaigns (TV, OOH, digital, press).

• Work closely with creatives and designers to ensure they have what they need from maintaining team documents, resources and project and budget trackers.

• Plan and arrange resources e.g., booking edits, audio, grade, both in house and externally, plus voice over artists.

• Manage the delivery of promos and BVODs to Sky and promos to commercial TV, Cinema and radio, working with Clearcast, Compliance, Mastering, Peach, BBFC, RCC and other companies for seamless upload.

• Build excellent relationships with the Creative Director and Creatives and work collaboratively with other Assistant Producers.

• Ensure programme material is available at the appropriate time for editing of trails in conjunction with the creative.

• Maintain paperwork associated with delivery of trails including compliance, music reporting, delivery paperwork, artists' contracts etc.

• Maintain excellent attention to detail and accuracy across all aspects of a project.

What you’ll bring:

• Ideally 1 to 2 years’ worth of experience working in a production environment, across shoots and/OR promos.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Highly organised, easily able to demonstrate successful multi-tasking.

• Demonstrates a flexible and pro-active approach.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment/calmly under pressure.

Team Overview

Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple partners across our European Markets.

From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities.

We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and

market.

We’re committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do.

The rewards:

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Access to free NOW, for streaming all your favourite shows  

• A generous pension package  

• Private healthcare  

• Discounted mobile and broadband    

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Where you’ll work:

Osterley

Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.

On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.