Head of Production (Maternity Cover)
Posted Today by Irresistible Studios
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: Irresistible Studios is seeking a Head of Production for a 12-month maternity cover starting in October 2025. The role involves managing the production, talent, and creative departments to ensure adherence to company standards and financial targets. The Head of Production will work closely with company directors and oversee staff performance while maintaining client relationships and project continuity. This senior managerial position requires strategic oversight and effective resource management to deliver high-quality production work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage producers, production managers, and assistants to align resources with financial targets.
- Oversee the creative department to ensure efficient resource allocation and successful project completion.
- Ensure adherence to company standards by all production, talent, and creative staff.
- Maintain client relationships through networking and production meetings.
- Liaise with post-production to ensure smooth project transitions and timely completion.
- Keep project management tools updated and maintain communication with agency clients.
- Resolve workflow issues between production and post-production teams.
- Build repeat business by delivering professional services.
- Manage legal documentation for clients and projects.
- Ensure financial paperwork is processed according to company protocols.
Key Skills:
- Strong managerial and leadership skills.
- Experience in production management and resource allocation.
- Excellent communication and networking abilities.
- Knowledge of financial management and project reconciliation.
- Ability to maintain high service standards and client satisfaction.
- Proficiency in project management tools.
- Understanding of legal documentation related to production.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Greater London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
Irresistible Studios is looking for a Head of Production to cover a 12 month maternity leave period. Starting in Oct 2025. If the below description sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
As the Head of the Production you are expected to work with the company directors to manage the production dept (including post producers), talent dept and creative dept by managing resources, supporting and guiding the teams to adhere to company procedures and values; so that the company effectively wins pitches and delivers production work to a satisfactory level, whilst hitting financial targets.
Your role is a senior managerial position and requires you manage staff, ensuring that they perform their roles in line with their job description and company protocols.
Strategic and Tactical Work:
- You manage the producers, production managers and production assistant aligning their work and resources to hitting financial targets.
- You manage the creative dept so that they are resourced efficiently and complete their pitching and paid work well.
- You manage the talent team to ensure they meet any pitches with a robust response, ensuring the company wins work and hits targets.
- To ensure that company standards to adhered to by all production staff, talent staff and creative staff.
- Ensuring continuity between creative producers and maintaining a high level or service.
- Working on client relationships, through networking and arranging production dump meetings. Ensuring clients have a good service across the board.
- Liaising with post-production to ensure the smooth running of projects from prod to post. Working directly with facilities to ensure post staff are there to complete projects on time, on time and to company standards.
- Keeping a fully up to date pipedrive.
- Keeping producers in touch with agency clients and feeding back into new biz and accounts to maintain client communication.
- Working through workflow problems between production and post. Between creative, new biz and production and post, from a overview POV.
- Building the repeat business by delivering a professional service.
- Managing legal docs for client and projects.
- Manage the reconciliation of all projects, ensuring that all financial paperwork is processed in line with company protocols. Working with the CEO and finance admin to make sure all projects are invoiced, all bills are paid, and that company finances are kept tidy.
Results:
- The company is resourced properly and is making profit margins as expected or exceeded in terms of the financial goals of the company.
- Clients are happy with the service and are coming back.
- Resourced and staffed as per company protocols.
- Hitting financial targets.
- Finances are in order.