Junior Producer

Company description

Publicis is an omni-channel communications agency with over 600 employees across our Canadian operations. The office is the largest in our industry in Canada and boasts talent across various disciplines of marketing and advertising expertise. Publicis carries a balanced split of Canadian, U.S. and Global clients for which we are Agency of Record. Publicis supports a range of D&I actions through our Driving Change team as well as giving back to the community through a long-standing participation in the Out of the Cold Program.

With a strong, active and familial culture, Pub United is the agency’s social club, hosting events as wide reaching as Curling, Trivia Nights and more.

The Junior Broadcast Producer supports the clients and ideals of their creative lead agency, all under the vision of their Head of Production. Directly reports to an SVP/Group EP or VP EP, depending on creative agency department needs & structure.

The Junior Broadcast Producer position will provide deadline driven support to all disciplines of production as they develop expertise and learn about the role of a producer. The ideal candidate for this position will be eager to learn and open to supporting a variety of integrated projects that provide opportunities to absorb and experience the production process from brief to delivery.

Ideal candidate has 2+ years advertising agency experience as Broadcast Producer, experience managing end to end broadcast programs.

• Responsible for supporting in all day-to-day aspects of production, learning how to scope and ballpark creative concepts, build detailed project schedules, manage project scope, research and secure production resources, quality control all deliverables, maintain project documentation and communicate with holistic project teams
• Begin to demonstrate ability to produce projects on their own but also able to work in a support role, sometimes on concurrent projects, to ensure error free, on time and on budget productions all while meeting or exceeding creative objectives and expectations
• Responsible for ‘managing up’ to more senior producers (EP, Senior Producer, possibly Producer) and proactively seeking support/guidance when needed
• Observe and learn the process of researching, identifying, selecting and negotiating production vendor partnerships (internally and externally) based on both scope/budget/timeline of project and which partner is best suited to execute the creative vision
• Responsible for supporting and participating in our efforts in cultivating a diverse, equal and inclusive culture of production within our work
• Communicates proactively to Creative, Account Services, Business Affairs and Media partners on all aspects of the production including milestones, deliverables and due dates to keep the production process flowing smoothly
• Begins to achieve a basic understanding of Talent 101 definitions, and how they apply to the job
• Observe and begin to build critical relationships with both internal and external production industry that will eventually enable them to maintain the agency’s reputation and standard of excellence
• Stays on top of industry trends, craft-makers, techniques, directors, photographers, and new technologies and utilizes expertise and passion for production to inspire and educate the Department and Agency overall in an effort to elevate the creative product
• Explore and apply AI tools to enhance creative workflows, from generating fresh content ideas to streamlining production tasks, while staying curious about emerging technologies that shape the future of storytelling

• Approaches each assignment with curiosity, open-mindedness and forward thinking
• Works to pursue the best creative ideas and creates an environment supportive of the best creative
• Collaborative team member that actively seeks out and tries to understand the opinions of others, listens well
• Passionate about ideas, brands, the agency and our clients’ business
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic that is determined, tenacious and tireless
• Exquisite taste, strong point of view, fearless
• A great partner, balance of supportive and challenging, and…