Position: Senior Producer and Producers Lead
Career Level: Associate Manager & Manager
Reporting to: Head of AoE Special Projects
Location: London
About The Storytellers
We are The Storytellers.
We exist to move more people to do great things through the power and influence of storytelling. In doing so, we help leaders inspire their people to transform and accelerate business performance.
By creating the motivation, means and momentum essential to shift behaviour in large organisations, our unique approach enables leaders to bring their people through complex journeys of change as engaged, united and aligned teams, where each and every person is clear on their role and committed to success.
Our integrated storytelling programmes are seamlessly delivered by an agile, interdisciplinary team of experts in narrative and narrative-driven events, leadership development, learning solutions and world class, award-winning creative campaigns.
We have almost 20 years' experience, working with over 170 major organisations in more than 30 countries to deliver strategy engagement, culture change, business transformation, brand cultures, post-merger integration, operational improvement and service excellence.
The significant and measurable difference we've made to their performance means that today we're proud to say that over 65% of our business comes from existing clients or referrals.
Overview
This key, customer-centric role is responsible for bringing complex large-scale programmes and interventions to life, using the best-in-class creative, production, facilitation, writers and leadership expertise means to amplify the power and influence of storytelling.
The Senior Producer is a strategic partner for clients' C-suite Executives, directing the design and delivery of effective and profitable creative and production solutions anchored in The Storytellers' approach and methodology.
The Senior Producer and Producer Lead plays a significant long-term role in the development and enhancement of The Storytellers' AoE capability (people, product, process), with a focus on the Producers area of expertise and organisation-wide business growth.
Key responsibilities
* Responsible for the conceptual and structural design, sales, planning, development and delivery of large client interventions from a creative and production perspective, to achieve agreed programme objectives and budgetary targets.
* Develop a good understanding of clients' strategic imperatives and resources and ensure that proposed solutions are relevant and appropriate.
* Recruitment, induction, management and development of Producers team and project personnel (internal and external).
* Responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of the AoE business strategy and leading the Producers quarterly/annual plans/OKRs, budgets and P&L.
* Identify client growth and retention opportunities (cross-selling and upselling) and actively contribute to the pitch process and the ongoing strategic Client Account Planning.
* Partner with clients' C-suite Executives and creative/production counterparts, developing long-lasting trusted partnerships, aiming to increase the scope and scale of The Storytellers' services.
* Fulfil the role of Producer in production-heavy and/or high potential client programmes.
* Drive the innovation and development of The Storytellers' AoE capability (working closely with other Expertise Leads).
* Actively contribute to The Storytellers' public profile building through thought leadership, speaking engagements and networking.
Skills and experience
* Passionate and with an inherent understanding of strategic narrative and storytelling within a business setting, and a desire to adopt, adapt and develop The Storytellers' approach and methodology.
* Confident producer with solid experience of managing complex, interdisciplinary projects involving creative and production teams, as well as C-suite Executives from multinational, blue-chip organisations.
* Deep knowledge and passion for creative process, large-scale live events, film, digital, business conferences, communications campaigns and design, underpinned by a solid understanding and experience of managing creative and production projects.
* High level of emotional intelligence, confidence and ability to quickly build meaningful relationships at all levels, internally and externally, especially at C-suite level.
* Strong commercial acumen and ability to grow client opportunities.
* Advanced project management skills, including budget and resource planning.
* Leadership skills: team management and development.
* A lateral thinker who enjoys solving complex problems and is capable of dealing with ambiguous client briefs and unexpected challenges.
* Excellent command of English (verbal and written).
* A true team player, ability to work cross-functionally.
* Intellectually curious, genuinely interested ('sponge', not 'rock').
* Naturally consultative; seeking first to understand, then to be understood.
* Authentic and true to oneself.
* Able to work in a fast-paced environment, with a solutions-oriented attitude.
* Dynamic, making things happen, proactive self-starter with entrepreneurial spirit.
* Highly ambitious, be committed to developing a long-term relationship with us, invest time and energy to become a key player in a dynamic and fast-evolving organisation.
* Dialling up the sales responsibility.
Requirements
* Eligible to work in the UK.
* Internationally mobile (travelling).
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