Head of Content Production

Your Role: You will focus on delivering best-in-class content for the stage, primarily focused on Cannes Lions, the Internal Festival of Creativity. You will manage a team of talented content producers to curate and deliver strong agendas and value for our customers across the festival. You will work closely with marketing, content operations, and product development teams to ensure everything we do is high quality, and world-class and improve all performance metrics. You'll also deputise for the Director of Content, making key decisions to uphold our standards, editorial integrity, and values, deliver on our content strategy, and represent content globally. You will play a key role in executing the strategic vision for Content, by transforming high-level objectives into actionable content plans. You'll work closely with the Director of Content to inspire and support our customers who submit content, build and maintain relationships in the creative community, discover new voices for the Cannes Lions stage, and uphold our commitment to DEI and representation on our platform. Simply put, this individual is passionate about what great content for the stage looks like and strives to deliver content programmes that define excellence YOY.,

• Developing and owning the end-to-end content plan for Festival content year on year, ensuring alignment with the long-term content strategy. Establishing clear goals and KPIs based on overall content strategy, providing timely reporting to monitor progress and identify areas for improvement
• Responsible for the Call for Content, programme design, curation, experience, execution, onsite delivery and analysis of the content programme at Cannes Lions, as well as other bespoke events throughout the year
• Building and maintaining key relationships in the industry, and broadening our network to find new voices and deliver on our commitment to DEI. Creating tailored engagement plans to inspire new perspectives, new disciplines, new markets to participate in content
• Managing and developing a high-performing team of content producers, setting clear briefs, supporting individual growth plans and fostering development opportunities that align with team and organisational goals
• Working with relevant teams to deliver comprehensive content, marketing and operational plans, facilitating cross-functional collaboration
• Upholding our editorial standards and values set by the Director of Content, with a healthy obsession with what great looks like.
Your Experience
• Strategic planner: skilled in developing and evaluating strategic plans, with the ability to implement and assess efficiency and alignment with long-term objectives
• Calm and flexible leader: adaptable and results-focused, able to assess effectiveness, rene approaches, and report on progress
• Insights driven: committed to understanding customer needs, building feedback into constant improvement
• Talent developer: proven experience in recognising growth potential, coaching, and supporting skill development to build a high-performing team
• Detail-oriented: capable of managing details meticulously while keeping broader goals in view Relationship builder: skilled at establishing and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders at all organisational levels
• Industry-aware: understanding of the branded communications landscape, with a proactive drive to deepen knowledge of relevant sectors and trends
• Strong editorial values: Committed to delivering the best of the best, with strong editorial integrity and drive to build our platform to better the creative community
• If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At LIONS, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
  
  The LIONS brand is probably most synonymous with Cannes Lions, The International Festival of Creativity, the definitive meeting place for the global creative communications and advertising community. It's five days of inspiration, aspiration, unlimited magic and potential. The Festival has been championing creative excellence since 1954 with the goal of providing a global destination and the definitive benchmark for creativity that drives progress.
LIONS is going through an exciting time as it's recently repositioned as The Home of Creativity, supporting those in the business of creativity at every step of their journeys with an extended portfolio of new advisory, learning and intelligence services. Our purpose is to drive progress through creativity for an incredibly diverse and talented global creative community. You will join a team of change makers. The team's purpose is to champion change to create the most powerful global creative community and drive growth for the brand. LIONS is part of Ascential. Ascential takes the world's leading brands to the heart of what's next for their industries. We do this through our events, intelligence products and advisory services. Our 700+ people serve a global customer base from more than 100 countries in the large and growing Marketing and Financial Technology sectors. Ascential is part of the Informa Group. Why Choose Us? Two divisions. Three continents. One great culture - we want working for Ascential to be the best career move you've ever made. Ascential is a people-powered company, and we're committed to supporting . We publish an annual DEI Report, setting out our goals and progress. We invest in Employee Groups including Able to Thrive, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and Empower Women's Network. And our inclusive recruitment practices and early talent programmes help us to bring curious, passionate people from every walk of life into our team. We're committed to ensuring that the impact of our business on our environment - and the communities we operate in - is a positive one. That means making sure that each event we run is the most sustainable it's ever been. We also default all of our pension plans to sustainable options, so that our people's savings are invested in ways that help rather than hinder our planet. Helping people to connect and drive progress isn't a business-only goal. We know that the world is a better place when we lead with heart, so we support charitable causes that make a difference. We provide opportunities to give back through Volunteer Days and our charity partnership with Media Trust. We value output, not hours. Most of our roles ask for 1-2 days a week in your nearest office. But if that's not possible for you, let's talk. Flexible work conversations are actively encouraged here. Only you know what's most important to you. That's why we offer a benefits and wellbeing package that you can tailor to your needs. Some of these include:
• 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
• Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Access to either our commission, bonus or profit share schemes, dependent on the role
• Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
• Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
• Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
• Learning and development opportunities, to encourage and empower everyone to grow
We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you. If we inspire you, why not join and inspire us? Find out Ascential