Company Description

The Mill is a global creative partner for agencies, production companies and brands, working across all media channels and platforms. 

We are trusted specialists in visual effects, creative technologies and content production Our projects include the creation of digital products and virtual experiences, as well as world class visual effects and video production. 

We are a vibrant network of talented artists, producers, directors and creative technologists from multinational backgrounds. We nurture innovation, flexibility and diverse ideas across our studios in London, Seoul, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Bangalore. We are all united by one single ambition: To create extraordinary and memorable work that captivates and excites audiences. 

We are The Mill. We create the extraordinary. 

Our global Visual Effects team combines talent with technology, artistry with rigor, the familiar with the fantastic. Our work can be inspiring or invisible, but always unforgettable. From the language of colour to the hand drawn and photo-real, we bring ideas to life through the use of movement, storytelling and timing.  

Job Description

The future success of The Mill is to offer more than our traditional VFX services. Creativity has been the catalyst for our traditional VFX success. We must continue to evolve and provide end-to-end content, craft, and design to conventional Agencies whilst focusing on our relationships with new direct-to-brand clients. The Mill+ Creative Production offering builds on the new brand relationships and directly sells our complete production capabilities. 

*This role will begin earliest March 2024 - application reviews will take place beginning in February*

ROLE OVERVIEW 

The Mill+ EP is responsible for MILL end-to-end production. The EP converts non-traditional agencies and direct-to-brand briefs into Mill creative responses. Delivering profitable productions using The Mill  infrastructure and key services (e.g. Live action, Design, Experience  & VFX)  

The EP manages the direct client relationships, is the key client contact and is the escalation point responsible for the overall production budget, P&L and project profitability.  

The EP brings operational rigour to our production process. Optimising the whole production pipeline defining clear accountability for each member of our CP team, wider Mill teams, and external vendors to ensure we deliver on schedule and within budget.  

The EP will also ensure and work with the creative development team to develop creative responses, concepts, and solutions, to a consistent level of creative excellence. What is the best and most innovative Mill solution? What combined Mill team or external vendor answers the client's brief better than our competitors and within the defined project budget?  

The EP role and new business structure should enable Mill+ to increase our Direct Brand revenue, increase our pitch conversion rate and meet our business's growth targets. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Managing UK sales and projects through optimal use of Hubspot. 

• Assess and validate client briefs before engaging with Production or Creative teams (i.e. is this brief validated and at a realistic stage where should we be pitching?  

• Manage resource allocation for all pitch/ treatment responses as part of a new pitch process developed by the Creative Development team.  

• Aligning Mill estimates and reviewing the overall production costs for master CETA estimates.  

• Build senior client relationships for key Mill strategic accounts and drive revenue as an individual lead and via the wider team. 

• Ensuring you and the team are developing long-term commercial relationships with key brands in addition to an ongoing pipeline of project-based revenue. 

• Work collaboratively with the team to develop creative production solutions in response to client briefs and ensure high standards of creative excellence. 

• Tracking and analysis of pitch conversions. Applying learnings of where we succeed and where we fail. 

• Mentor your team on account planning, partnership creation and resource request business cases. 

• Provide business support to the Business Development team following client onboarding and when the client is ready to brief. 

• EP's must attend shoots; Their responsibility is client service and complete production overview (e.g. dinners, video village comms to the client). N.B. The Head of Live action will provide a Live action producer to run the shoot, but the EP is ultimately accountable.    

• EP's need to attend pre-production meetings and raise any concerns to the appropriate folks as an account executive would do at an agency, being that they are client-facing and running the relationship. 

• EP is the primary client contact - for creative / budget submissions & remains on the copy throughout the project or critical comms. The CP EP will constantly oversee the job as it progresses to the final delivery.   

• Mentor and support Junior Producers  

Qualifications

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 

• An understanding of end-to-end production and VFX/CG, Design, and Live action production. Ideally, you'll have 10+ years of experience, but we'll still consider strong applications with less. 

• Confident speaker and presenter. 

• International Client experience would be an advantage. 

• Passion for emerging and future technology in content production and delivery. 

• Detail-oriented, take-ownership attitude, highly organised in time management to facilitate involvement in multiple projects

• Strong interpersonal and proactive problem-solving skills

 SUCCESS METRICS / KPIs 

• Meeting revenue targets for Mill+ 

• Increasing brand count of new Direct To Brand clients. 

• Driving repeat business and raising profile from existing and lapsed Mill clients (Production companies/ agencies & brands)  

Additional Information

At The Mill, we want to work with the best people and we want them to have a great career with us. We will make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process and beyond to help people shine and enable them to show us their skills and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace that reflects the needs of a diverse workforce. We will offer flexible working practices and make relevant workplace adjustments for employees who need them to be at their best.