Junior Production Manager
London
Job Title: Junior Production Manager
Location: Victoria, London
Reports To: Senior Production Manager / Production Executive
Job Summary:
The Box Plus Junior Production Manger provides vital organisational, administrative & budgetary support to the programme, commercial & digital production teams, ensuring that all Box Plus's productions run smoothly.
The Box Plus Network:
Box Plus is the UK's biggest music video network. We run a portfolio of music TV brands; The Box, 4Music, Kiss, Kerrang! & Magic, alongside a suite of digital products; the Box Plus website & app and BeBoxMusic.com. We have a small but growing international distribution network and have a vibrant in-house production team that directly creates content for our channels and network of digital platforms incl. social media and syndicated feeds.
Main Responsibilities, Activities and Key Deliverables:
The Production Coordinator role works across our brands & platforms organising and ensuring the smooth running of an array of complicated, fast turnaround productions.
Running numerous daily shoots across editorial, commercial and digital teams
Liaising with agents to book presenters for a wide variety of shoots; live shows, access pieces and junkets.
Booking and managing of a weekly V/O schedule and ensuring all artists are contracted will also be required.
Recruitment administration; responsible for finding and engaging an array of freelance crew, contractors and suppliers through the channels' internal systems, ensuring all necessary paperwork and approvals are completed.
Managing budgets and will involve numeracy and excellent negotiation skills.
Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Highly numerate, with experience of managing budgets & a good knowledge of Excel
Extensive experience organising and ensuring the smooth running of complicated, fast turnaround shoots and all the associated logistics, including on location.
Knowledge of industry rates across a broad range of suppliers.
Excellent project management skills. Outstanding organisation, exceptional attention to detail & a very calm head under pressure.
Able to self-prioritise & to work as part of a cross-functional team
Note: this position is not suitable for Production Co-ordinators wanting to step up to a Junior PM role.