Promo Producer

Job Description
Promo Producer, TalkTV 12 Month FTC

Your team: Join the dynamic Broadcast and Creative Services team at TalkTV, dedicated to producing engaging promotional content for our diverse programming slate. You’ll be working closely with writers, producers, and editors to create compelling promotional content for TalkTV. Reporting directly to the Head of Studio Output, you’ll play a pivotal role in bringing our shows to life through inventive promos that captivate audiences.
Your role: The Promo Producer is a key member of the TalkTV creative team. Their primary purpose is to produce high quality On-Air Promotions, Marketing and Corporate videos which encourage consumers to engage, watch & subscribe to TalkTV’s television platform and social media channels, whilst always striving for the best creatively to build a strong TV brand for the channel. The role of Promo Producer is responsible for the end-to-end production (conceptualisation, scripting, directing, filming, producing and packaging) of promotional content for TalkTV.
Day to day you will:

Conceptualise and Produce: Take the reins from concept to delivery, working closely with other departments to create high-impact promotional content.
Develop Creative Ideas: Generate and pitch fresh, compelling ideas for promotional spots that align with the channel’s brand and programming strategy.
Scripting & Storyboarding: Write engaging scripts and develop storyboards for promotional campaigns, collaborating closely with graphic designers and editors.
Project Management: Manage multiple promo projects from inception to completion, coordinating with other departments like marketing and programming.
Quality Control: Oversee the final quality of audio and video output, ensuring it meets all company and industry standards.
Team Collaboration: Work collaboratively with other departments, especially marketing and programming, to synchronise promotional campaigns across various media platforms.
Strive for creative excellence: Writing, editing & producing television promos that drive & raise conversations.

What we’re looking for from you:

A proven track record of producing promotional content for television or similar media.
Strong creative skills and creative judgement.
A passion and knowledge for sport, music, films and TV.
A high level of attention to detail.
Ability to work under tight deadlines without compromising on quality
The ability to approach a common theme from a unique perspective. A great sense for visuals, copy and music.
The ability to pitch clear and concise ideas to brief using good written and verbal communication skills.
Clear knowledge of the production processes, relevant tools and techniques.
Ability to self-edit to an offline standard (AVID preferred).
Experience of dealing with contributors (actors, voice-over artists, personalities and presenters).
Ability to interpret marketing & programming strategy priorities in order to best deliver to brief.
The ability to generate original ideas for promotions and larger 360-degree promotional campaigns across multiple platforms.
Ability to work to tight budgets and deadlines.
Strong planning and organisational skills in order to manage projects
The ability to be a team player who is just as happy to brainstorm with colleagues to the benefit of their work as they are to work independently.
Client / audience focused.
Sound editorial and compliance judgement.
Interpersonal and communication skills sufficient to establish and maintain effective working relations with a range of internal and external contacts.
The resilience to sustain performance when under pressure from a high volume of work and conflicting priorities.
The ability to demonstrate initiative and work flexibly and independently.
Manage the storage of content and projects on the AVIDs.
Advise & support freelancers about systems within the On-Air Department.
Keep up to date with their work’s associated music returns.
Comply with the regulatory, fair trading and competition rules in line with OFCOM guidelines.
Similarly, an awareness of Health and Safety Codes of Practice in TV production environments would be an advantage.

TalkTV delivers a bold voice in current affairs, debate and opinion available on linear TV, online and on the TalkTV mobile app. Piers Morgan Uncensored, our multi award-winning primetime show, is an hour of lively debates and world class interviews, presented by Piers Morgan. PMU continually sets the global news agenda and its YouTube currently looks to be the fastest growing page in UK broadcasting, with 23 million (and counting) having watched Piers’ Cristiano Ronaldo scoop alone. Talk Today is TalkTV’s new breakfast TV show and is a dynamic mix of news and views, broadcast daily from 6am to 9.30am from state-of-the-art TV studios in The News Building at London Bridge. Broadcaster Jeremy Kyle joins TV presenter & columnist Nicola Thorp to anchor Monday to Thursday to discuss the issues that really matter to the nation. Then Mike Graham tears his way through the morning newspapers and brings a much needed dose of common sense to the day’s big stories, followed by Julia Hartley-Brewer, whose top-drawer coverage of current affairs and politics is delivered with her trademark no-nonsense approach. Vanessa Feltz guides you through the big stories of the day from the world of politics, current affairs and showbiz. First Edition serves as TalkTV’s flagship evening news programme and takes an energetic look at tomorrow’s news, tonight, through the lens of the newspaper first editions. Join a panel of opinionated famous faces to debate the hot topics everybody’s talking about on The Talk. Drawing together world-class talent across News UK, TalkTV is available live or on-demand 24/7, on Sky Channel 522, Sky Glass Channel 508, Virgin Media Channel 606, Freeview Channel 237 and Freesat Channel 217 as well as on DAB+, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung TV Plus, YouTube, the Talk.TV website and TalkTV iOS and Android apps.
We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio – home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir and Michael Portillo. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show.
Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat – they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.