Job Description
Overview
This is s senior leader position which is responsible for developing the strategy and managing the execution of local productions across the free-to-air, pay and digital portfolio of channels in Australia & New Zealand markets and increasing audience engagement to achieve ratings growth and revenue growth.
We are looking for a pro-active candidate with an exceptional understanding of the local and international audience, this role is responsible for identifying local production opportunities to drive audience and revenue growth across the ANZ Portfolio and also the development of formats that can be produced in ANZ and distributed globally.
Responsibilities
• Charismatic leader that excites the organization to drive change forward
• A confident leader who is able to lead their area to ensure what has been agreed and defined is delivered well
• Strong creative leadership track record, able to inspire and motivate a team to deliver to an agreed vision
• A reputation as a leading TV executive within the creative community; a proven track record in creating, pitching and delivering outstanding programming
• Highly strategic thinker who can balance creative and commercial considerations and is known as a fair and creative deal doer
• Brings and/or establishes instant credibility with peers and third parties based on career history and personal qualities; ability to hold their own with the wide range of players in this area from the production community to talent and their agents, commercial and digital partners
• Strong presentation skills, able readily and easily to address a diverse range of audiences including internal colleagues and external partners
• A good regional network and an ability to build networks inside organisations; collaborative, influential approach to problem solving; able to work readily and easily with many different personalities and nationalities in a highly matrixed and international structure
• Proven experience producing hit shows
• Experience tapping into multiple funding sources
• International experience desirable but not mandatory
Qualifications
• Develop a production slate across Australia & NZ of locally produced content that can work on free-to-air, pay TV and D2C
• Develop ideas for new productions which can be produced in Australia or NZ, but work on Discovery's linear or D2C networks internationally
• Manage Discovery's Production budget for Australia & NZ & identify ways of improving Discovery ANZ competitive edge in production
• Collaborate with the Head of Programming on production ideas and concepts to ensure productions fit with the overall programming strategy
• Work closely with the global Production Management team
• Build strong relationships with the production communities in Australia & NZ, making Discovery a desirable broadcast partner
• Develop strong relationships with Screen Funding bodies in Australia & NZ (e.g. NZ On-Air, Screen Australia, etc)
• Create innovative production funding plans for local productions, accessing screen funding and internal funding
• Develop strong relationships with other production heads across Discovery in APAC, EMEA & the US
• Manage external production companies and internal productions from the NZ studios
• Manage executive producers across entertainment formats.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3o9z9-3-94-102-228-42 in your application.