Production Manager, BBC Film

Production Manager, BBC Film London, England

BBC
Full Time London, England 33031 - 72000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Job Introduction

Firmly established at the forefront of UK film, BBC Film has an ambitious slate featuring many of the most exciting filmmakers working today. Recent films include the Palme d’Or winning TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ruben Östlund), nominated for a BAFTA alongside BLUE JEAN (Georgia Oakley) and AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells) starring Paul Mescal. BBC Film also had three films premiere at Sundance 2023: SCRAPPER (Charlotte Regan) starring Harris Dickinson, Laura Aikman and Ambreen Razia which won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, GIRL (Adura Onashile) starring Déborah Lukumuena and Le’Shantey Bonsu, and RYE LANE (Raine Allen-Miller) starring David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah. The Production Manager manages on a day-to-day basis, in partnership with their editorial colleagues, one or more productions and/or a portfolio of content. This role ensures delivery of accurate budgets and production planning in a demanding and changing environment. The Production Manager supports the Head of Production and Production Executive by contributing to the commissioning and setting up of productions, ensuring resources and editorial aspirations are aligned.

Main Responsibilities

The Production Manager will provide film production support for the Production & Finance team and work closely with editorial colleagues, the independent film production community, freelancers and suppliers. You will provide financial support for the Senior Business Manager and play a key role in setting up productions, departmental cost management, monitoring and controlling expenditure against budget. You will assist with the collection of revenue and ensure that this is reflected accurately and correctly on the system which will include liaising with external film collection agents, legal practitioners and other financiers. The Production Manager will distribute relevant BBC policies, guidelines, legislative and regulatory requirements, ensuring productions are aware and compliant. You will monitor production paperwork including call sheets, progress reports, and post production schedules. The role will require the compilation of regular monthly and ad-hoc internal financial reports and other statistical information where required.

The link below for the job description is the generic job description pages 1 – 3, please see the appendix on pages 3 – 5 for the job description with specifics for this role.

Are you the right candidate?

You will be an experienced Production Coordinator or a Production Manager, with strong interpersonal and communication skills, ideally with a track record of managing multiple projects and fast turnaround productions. You will have a keen interest and knowledge of theatrical films and must have experience of working in a feature film environment, preferably in a similar capacity. You must have working knowledge of the film market place and an understanding of the workings of the key UK distributors, sales agents and public funding bodies. You should be proficient in using excel, good numeracy skills and a concern for financial accuracy, with experience of using SAP desirable.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: 1 x Fixed Term Contract/Attachment to 29/02/2024
Location: New Broadcasting House, London

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

  • Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
  • Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
  • Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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Production Manager, BBC Film
BBC

www.bbc.co.uk
London, United Kingdom
Tim Davie
Unknown / Non-Applicable
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1922
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