VFX Producer Pool, BBC Studios NHU VFX Producer Pool, BBC Studios NHU

The VFX Producers will be based client side, embedded within BBC Studios NHU production teams, helping manage the project's visual effects budget and schedule by working closely with the VFX vendors assigned to execute and deliver the work.

• Inputting into the VFX content across the project ensuring continuity of the VFX delivery and quality whilst ensuring value for money is reached across asset shot content.
• Main communicator between production, VFX vendors and post houses.
• Working with Directors during storyboarding to advise on framings and shot ideas that will combine visual and storytelling excellence with maximum efficiency for the VFX process.
• Working collaboratively with the editorial teams, to maximise the budget and the schedules following best practices and agreed workflows.
• Working collaboratively with the VFX vendors, to maximise the budget and the schedules.
• Breaking down and budgeting episodes and sequences with vendor input - subject to project specific requirements.
• Preparing bid packages for the vendors that will include all scripts and reference materials.
• Helping to plan turnover and delivery schedules.
• Tracking the status and cost of shots through to delivery and report on the budget & schedule.
• Running a shot & asset database.
• Managing feedback and taking charge of Quality Control
• Working closely with Exec(s), Series Producers and Production Management to ensure the desired level of quality is delivered to budget and on schedule, holding vendor(s) accountable where necessary.
• Participating in Client meetings as required.
  
  Excellent communication skills.
• Organised, able to multitask and manage time efficiently.
• Ability to share information concisely and effectively.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team.
• Experience of delivering complex VFX on VFX heavy shows.
• Experience of tracking shot progress and reporting on costs and schedules.
• Experience translating creative ambition into VFX deliverables.
• Familiarity with key software beneficial, especially Shot Grid.
DESIRABLE CRITERIA.
• VFX experience in episodic television with large budgets that are aimed at mainstream global distribution would be advantageous.
• VFX Producers to have experience both in production/client side as well as time spent as VFX producer within animation studio/vendor side.
  
  BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content., BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is the best-known producer of natural history content in the world - responsible for some of the most successful factual content of the past 10 years. With pioneering technology, unprecedented access, and innovative storytelling, we inspire audiences across the globe. Our output includes everything from breathtaking landmarks (The Green Planet; Seven Worlds, One Planet; Dynasties; Blue Planet II; Planet Earth III), returning series (Big Cat 24/7), kids content (Andy's Adventures and Deadly) and technically challenging live shows (Springwatch; Blue Planet Live), to Prehistoric Planet - the ground-breaking AppleTV+ Original, The Americas for NBCU, and Ocean Xplorers for National Geographic Disney+. Programmes made by the NHU denote quality, originality, factual integrity and world-class storytelling., The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here. BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group's science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.


• We offer a competitive salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation