Quote Manager

BUILD HOLLYWOOD is dedicated to placing creativity in the heart of our cities. As the UK’s leading street advertising specialist, we develop, curate and offer street poster space to a range of clients within the music, fashion, arts and culture sectors. BUILD HOLLYWOOD creates the space and our family of agencies, DIABOLICAL, JACK and JACK ARTS work with clients to bring their campaigns to life on the street.

Built on an art school mentality that stretches back decades to our founder, we have a talented family of agencies – DIABOLICAL, JACK and JACK ARTS – who specialise in their own sectors to produce street-level poster campaigns, creative billboards, hand-painted murals, interactive installations, ambient activities, and unique experiential campaigns, creating authentic interactions with people on the street.

This combination of format, creativity and position is unique to BUILD HOLLYWOOD. It’s the reason why we work and collaborate with the most exciting brands, artists and creative institutions in the world.

We are a creative street marketing company with a network of billboard sites across the UK. Clients come to us for our street level posters as well as increasingly 3D creative activations on our sites, in our venues and on the street.

All our creative activations are produced in house by our Creative Studio. The range of briefs vary and can include anything from a single billboard to a full nationwide bespoke build roll out. The Quote Manager will be responsible for quoting all creative briefs,working closely with project leads and production teams to establish realistic costs, timings and resource requirements based on production methodologies.

The role will develop aquoting system to produce accurate, competitive and commercially viable quotes for all Creative Studio projects. You will work closely with the in-house sales team to understand our clients needs and requirments for each job. The quote manager will develop client facing quote decks inclusive of lead times and designs. You will be responsible for understanding what a project requires, identifying the resources and the suppliers needed, building the associated costs, and ensuring consistency and accuracy across all quotes.

• Liaise with suppliers and production partners to obtain accurate costs, lead times and availability for materials, services and specialist production requirements.
• Build accurate, commercially viable quotes for Creative Studio projects, working with the team to understand scope, methodology, resources and requirements.
• Identify the resources, suppliers and production methods required for each project and ensure all associated costs are captured before quotes are issued.
• Develop and maintain a consistent quoting system, templates and processes to improve accuracy, efficiency and turnaround times across all Creative Studio quotes.
• Pull together realistic lead times for all elements of a project and ensure these are clearly reflected within client-facing quotes.
• Create clear, professional client-facing quote decks that bring together costs, lead times, designs and relevant project information.
• Work closely with the Head of Print Operations on flatbed production quotes, ensuring production requirements and costs are accurately reflected.
• Develop a strong understanding of regular production formats and methodologies, enabling the team to confidently provide accurate initial or ‘ballpark’ costs where appropriate.
• Identify potential production risks, hidden costs, dependencies and scope considerations, ensuring these are accounted for before a quote is issued.
• Ensure quotes are commercially viable and aligned with agreed margin expectations, highlighting any areas of risk or…