Senior Professional, Brand Creative, Production, UK & Ireland

Brand Creative are the storytellers of the brand. We are the voice of Nikes heart & soul. Our focus is on telling powerful meaningful stories across the entire brand ecosystem leveraging all existing and new platforms to inspire enable and engage athletes* while driving brand distinction and business impact. We strive to make people feel and help them do sport every day.

Who Youll Work With

As a Producer in the Brand Creative Digital Studio your focus will be on telling compelling hyper local social first stories that resonate within our market and beyond.

Youll work closely with the Senior Manager to lead the Art Director Narrative and Social Lead and external creative partners across all workstreams.

Within Nikes broader Marketing organization youll collaborate with teams across Brand Marketing Sports Marketing Operations Legal Finance and Procurement. Youll also connect with EMEA City Studios and the Global team to strengthen Nikes creative network.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Producer to join Nikes Brand Creative Digital Studio in London. This role is central to bringing powerful social first stories to life across digital physical and experiential platforms.

The ideal candidate is organized collaborative and solution oriented with strong production and project management experience. They thrive under pressure communicate clearly and know how to get the best out of creative partners and teams. A passionate creative thought partner who gets energized by the process of bringing creative ideas to life you play a pivotal role and are instrumental in developing and delivering the best creative on behalf of Nike.

You will have a wealth of experience when it comes to working directly with creatives and also commissioning work from a varied and broad network of agencies and creative individuals. From being on set handling the production of a shoot to commissioning an illustrator or 3D artist youre motivated by the challenge of learning as you go.

No matter how complex the project you will be comfortable keeping the team focused on key priorities are not afraid to ask for advice or challenge and are able to anticipate potential complications and collaborate with your team to find solutions. You speak up challenge the brief or project scope and prioritize new thinking. You simplify complex information and clear obstacles to give space for the best possible creative solutions. You bring people together through challenging moments knowing exactly how to bring the best out of everyone.

Youll Bring

• Knowledge and passion for creativity sports and culture
• Ability to work in a constantly evolving environment
• Proven experience in production and project management across multiple mediums
• Ability to manage complex timelines budgets and deliverables independently
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders
• Exceptional written and verbal communicator and strategic thinker that can simplify complex information
• Experience in resourcing team planning and onboarding talent
• Established relationships in the creative and production industry
• Skilled negotiator in art buying partner sourcing and agency management
• Future focused mindset with entrepreneurial spirit and adaptability
• Comfort working in a matrix environment across functions
• Commitment to staying current with creative technology
• Additional languages are a plus
• Willingness to travel 1020%
  

What Youll Work On

If this is you youll lead production across all key workstreams ensuring projects are delivered on time on budget and to the highest creative standard.

Day-to-day you will focus on leading execution across multiple mediums delivering premium and inspirational stories and experiences for the consumer. Working within a multi-disciplinary team youll work collaboratively to deliver against the brief on time and within budget. From project to project youll commission various creative partners from world renowned agencies to up and coming individuals expanding upon your established & trusted industry relationships.

As part of the wider production team (who are based in EHQ) youll drive best practice and help always ensure functional excellence inclusive of art buying and creative thought-partnership. As an individual you have experience in and comfort with leading projects on your own.

Aside from the day-to-day you may also be required to manage freelance Producers within the productions you manage consistently supporting their individual growth. You will also be comfortable navigating the operations of the studio working closely with the Snr Manager to direct traffic operations and resources. This will include collaborating on the operational budget recruitment contracting freelance talent software licenses managing team FTOs and ensuring workload is covered.