Creative Coordinator - 12 Month FTC

NEWS UK-1; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company is seeking a Creative Co-ordinator to support the efficient running of their creative studio. This role involves managing workflows, supporting creative teams, and ensuring timely delivery of branded content campaigns. Ideal candidates should have strong knowledge of production processes and tools like Smartsheet and Excel.

Benefits

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full salary

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships

Access to training and LinkedIn Learning

Generous pension scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Fully versed in production and creative workflows.
• Strong knowledge of Smartsheet, Excel, and workflow management systems.
• Strong interest in branded content.

Responsibilities

• Support and manage internal workflows and processes.
• Allocate and log resources across projects.
• Produce reports tracking conversion rates for RFPs.

Skills

Production workflows

Creative processes

Branded content

Tools

Smartsheet

Excel

Slack

Salesforce

Google Docs

Job description

Your team: The Studio teams include creative leads, art directors, project managers, video producers, picture editors, sub-editors and sales delivering the best blend of editorial, branding, social sharing and interactive content. Our wide range of editorial expertise and diverse skill sets allow us to find and create the most compelling stories.

The Studio / Creative Co-ordinator is an internal facing role, that helps the Heads of Creative Direction and the Director of Studio in the efficient running of the creative studio.

Your role: responsible for supporting and managing internal workflows, processes, and day to day administrative support of the Creative Directors and the creative teams ensuring the smooth running of the creative department allowing the Creative teams to deliver branded content campaigns for our clients on time, on budget and to a high creative standard.

Day to day you will:

• Allocate and log resource across pitch and live supporting the CD to ensure all work is covered
  
• Assist CD with Smartsheet monitoring to ensure all CLs have even spread of work on both pitch and live
  

• Take principle role in the coalition, creation and distribution of all Studio Case Studies
  
• Supporting CL’s and PM’s with freelance, talent and case study selection, onboarding and invoicing process
  
• Use Smartsheets to produce regular reports tracking conversion rates against key metrics for all RFPs
  
• Arrange and co-ordinate training for CLs, Design/VPs where required
  
• Weekly liaison with CD’s to manage workflow of creative team
  
• Provide additional creative coordination support to wider floor on occasion through undertaking of category analysis, further case study creation and ad hoc special projects
  

What we’re looking for from you:

• Fully versed in production and creative / editorial workflows and processes
  
• Strong knowledge of Smart Sheets / Excel or other spreadsheets and workflow management systems including Slack, Salesforce and Google Docs
  
• Delivery of campaigns to deadlines and on budget
  
• Effectiveness of Studio processes and performance/workflow management
  
• Strong interest in branded content - consumption, creation and distribution
  

We are News UK : One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi platform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• 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 including coverage for pre-existing conditions
  
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
  
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
  
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
  
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
  
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
  
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
  
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
  

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].