Metadata Coordinator

Reporting to: Digital Transformation Team

Location: London           

Contract: Fixed term contract (6 months)

About Us

Join the place creatives call home!

Fremantle is one of the world’s largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of Entertainment, Drama & Film and Documentaries.

From critically acclaimed dramas like The Responder, starring Martin Freeman, award winning films including Priscilla and Poor Things, to incredible entertainment and documentaries like Password, Too Hot to Handle, House of Kardashian and the Got Talent and Idols franchises, we make shows with global appeal.

Our Purpose

We aspire to tell stories that connect people around the world. We believe our productions should reflect and celebrate the world we live in and we want to create irresistible entertainment and engage with our audience. To achieve this, we must have people from all backgrounds and cultures working across our teams, and we commit to creating opportunities for talent by being inclusive in all that we do.

The role/The team:

Fremantle’s Digital Transformation programme is responsible for modernizing and unifying Fremantle’s global production and distribution businesses. As part of this, we are launching an internal catalogue of Fremantle’s historic produced and distributed content.

The data to populate this catalogue comes from a wide range of sources with varying levels of accuracy and duplication. We are looking for a metadata co-ordinator to support the clean-up and enrichment of the catalogue.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with global production businesses to assess their production catalogue entries for accuracy and identify resolutions for any mistakes identified
• Search internal archives for imagery to attach to shows, seasons and episodes within the catalogue
• Tag records with unique identifiers to enable matching of shows, seasons and episodes between systems
• Search external resources such as Google to find additional sources of information to validate old or difficult-to-identify content
• Proactively identify and remedy data quality issues within the catalogue
• Essential Skills and Experience:
• High levels of organisation and ability to categorise concepts into a hierarchy
• Broad understanding of the television and film industries and how shows, seasons and episodes are organized
• Ability to work in Excel to evaluate and clean data
• Ability to research companies and topics using Google and other external resources

Desirable Skills and Experience (Non-Essential):

• SQL
• Prior work with TV and film metadata
• Experience with EIDR data standards
• Experience with databases and API-driven ecosystems

Our benefits include: generous company pension, summer Fridays, audience tickets, hybrid working, employee assistance programme, access to free courses and training, local discounts, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, and volunteer days.

Disabled applicants who meet the minimum skills, knowledge and experience criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview. Please indicate on your application if this applies to you.

If you need any of this information in a different format or would like to suggest a different form of application, please contact careers@fremantle.com

Fremantle is part of RTL Group, a global leader across broadcast, streaming, content and digital, itself a division of the international media, services, and education company Bertelsmann.    

For more information, please visit www.fremantle.com, follow Fremantle on Twitter @FremantleHQ and Instagram @fremantle or visit Fremantle’s LinkedIn page.  

Company: FremantleMedia Group Ltd 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: London 

Postal Code: W1T 1AL 

Job ID: 269130