Senior Stills Producer/ Photography Producer

Senior Stills/Photography Producer - Manchester

What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?

Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn’t a skin condition.

Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people’s lives.

We’re a team of over 500+ people in Manchester and London, with a history of over 35 years and an ever-evolving future. You can get a feel for the #LYNXLife via YouTube, #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works here.

The role

A producer acts as the backbone of any photographic shoot, organising, scheduling, and taking control of all aspects of pre-production. Responsible for ensuring a shoot goes as smoothly as possible, they possess fortune-teller-like abilities, foreseeing and finding ways to solve potential problems that could arise while on set. They will book flights, write estimates, and liaise with casting agencies if needed. A clear communicator with excellent people and leadership skills, they must be confident in delegating roles in order to keep a production on schedule and on budget.

Your goal will be to ensure that studio processes are in place and followed so that visionary and dynamic work is produced to the highest standard, on time, and within budget.

What you can expect to be doing

• Collaborating with in-house resources and external partners to produce engaging visual content and coordinating between the two to ensure flawless execution of projects
• Developing and maintaining relationships with photographers, set designers and photographic/talent/model agents etc to ensure the highest level of talent
• Understanding fully, market rates and routinely negotiating the best rates possible with photographers, agents, and agencies
• Working on set with directors and account teams to manage the full shoot with authority and react accordingly to potential curveballs that can be expected in production
• Work with the creative director to agree deliverables and produce shot list / check list of requirements.
• Responsible for maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the creative output, ensuring client’s style guide standards are being met.
• Research and recce any potential locations, manage all negotiations, and lead on communication and organisation of locations with the owners/suppliers as needed.
• Be proficient in all areas of Production, providing on-set back up as needed

What we’d like to see from you:

• Depth of experience in shoot production with high calibre talent and artist portfolio
• Discreet and professional with excellent communications and networking skills
• Great relationships with top tier photographers, talent/photographer agents
• Experience working with talent on and off set, and managing direct relationships with their agents and representatives
• Creatively minded but also meticulous attention to detail for financial and shoot documentation
• Confident and experienced at production campaigns of various budgets and to various timelines
• Capability to produce location and studio shoots
• Leading on accurately scoping budgets, creative and production executions and timelines for video and stills shoots ensuring the feasibility of all requests for proposals
• Maintain current knowledge of video & photo production, editing software and marketing trends through self-study and continuing education programs.
• Excellent knowledge of common digital capture platforms, various lighting environments, photography equipment and best practices/conventions for set safety
• An organisational whizz with a pragmatic mind, can prioritise tasks, use initiative and self-time management
• Processes – understanding of typical key milestones and timings
• Workflows – understanding of basic stills and photography workflows, how they are impacted based on typical changes, how they are impacted when new elements are introduced such as the addition of motion alongside stills
• Budget management – multiple large-scale projects
• Good negotiation skills – able to consider budget limitations from the agency teams and clients alongside external supplier costs

What you can expect from us

A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.

You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:

• Hybrid Working
• 28 days annual leave
• Increasing holiday allowance connected to length of service (with the option to buy more, or sell)
• Early Friday finish throughout the year
• Extra early Friday finish during summer months
• Late Monday start during winter months
• Wellness Wednesdays with extended lunch hours
• Wellbeing programme – yoga, football, running club, hiking and more
• Season ticket interest free loans for travel
• #LXAcademy – our huge bespoke training programme for personal and professional development
• Life insurance
• Company pension scheme
• Medicash healthcare benefit
• Enhanced parental return to work scheme
• Fully paid for, company parties and socials!

Get in touch to find out how we can make an impact that matters together.