Video Editor/Producer

Job Introduction

This role will work across Saga Travel Group brands and products, currently touring (Titan & Saga), Tailor-Made and Hosted Hotels, to deliver marketing activity and brand content plans, positioning product effectively within the two brands’ propositions. As Video Editor/Producer, you will be responsible for planning, filming and editing content into multiple outputs. You need to be a strong creative, able to set a vision for the film edit as well as be a strong technician with skills in editing, sound and grading. Our films will be used for social, online, digital display and possibly even TV. Whether creating simple internal video edits for staff, soundbites for social or planning and executing a product film, you’ll be committed to your craft, able to translate idea to edit and deliver to deadline. A brand champion with a terrific eye for engaging content. You’re a storyteller – creative and technical.

The role is directly responsible for film production but it’s not all filming. We’ve lots of archives, you’ll have a skill with creating a new story with existing footage, a refreshed edit in line with commercial goals. You’ll also be expected to bring the latest techniques and fresh ideas to the table. In this role, you’ll develop our video content strategy. So, a love of travel and telling people’s travel stories is a must.

Working with key stakeholders, you’ll require the necessary skills and experience to successfully present and negotiate your vision to the business, taking your idea from concept to completion. Good communication skills are a must, you’ll be working collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels on ideas and objectives. Our video content is multi-channel, multi- brand and for multiple audiences (direct, trade, employee).

You will plan and deliver video content for marketing campaigns to increase brand consideration and conversion and amplify the brands to achieve brand fame (Titan) and support Saga’s position as a superbrand. This role will work closely across our marketing teams to drive expertise and excitement through our comms.

Role Responsibility

• Brand story-telling: champion both brands proposition and goal for fame/superbrand status.
• Align outputs to key pillars under Experience is Everything banner and amplify brand proposition.
• Adopt a flexible, enthusiastic and driven approach to achieving business goals.
• Develop close relationships with other marketing team colleagues, and key stakeholders across Product and Operational teams to ensure that our film effectively delivers against our key messaging.
• Lead video production flow, setting milestones and agreeing priorities across core functions.
• Construct stories to bring subject to life whilst showcasing our content pillars. Everything we produce must stack up to our content strategy.
• Take a proactive role in identifying and resolving design improvements across campaigns and branded content.
• Collaborate with stakeholders: its imperative you can convey your ideas/ambition clearly and take a brief, exploring ideas and interpret these for multiple formats. Work with designers and copywriters to ensure campaigns are joined up.
• Planning: manage your workload and prioritise, communicate risk and project visibility.
• Brand positioning: be single minded in our communications and ladder up to our core brand proposition.

The Ideal Candidate

• Solid demonstrable experience in producing high quality, accessible film edits.
• Video editor – experience with editing and scripting software programmes
• Strong communication skills to ensure effective liaison with stakeholders, with the ability to interrogate briefs, influence thinking and deliver on brand creative output.
• Highly organised to delivery work across multiple initiatives simultaneously, with a structured approach to decision making.
• Highly creative with experience identifying target audiences and devising website/digital campaigns that engage, inform and motivate.
• Tech savvy, stay ahead, generous with knowledge/expertise to create collaborative working.
• Adaptable, able to pivot at pace.
• Entrepreneurial and self-starter.
• A strong listener, able to remain calm and focussed under pressure.

Our Saga Values:

• Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen. 
• Empathy – Always aware of others. 
• Curiosity – Always asking why.
• Collaboration – Always one team, the Saga team!

Package Description

Everyday our colleagues deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. We believe exceptional work deserves even more exceptional rewards, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues. 

We offer total flexibility over where you work – you choose a place that you feel happiest, healthiest and most productive, either from home or in one of our hubs in London, Crawley or Folkestone.

We have an award-winning wellbeing programme, modern family-friendly policies including premature baby leave, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and our unique grandparents’ leave policy.

Benefits available to all colleagues:

• 25 days of paid holiday (with option to purchase more), plus bank holidays that you can use any time of the year and an annual volunteer day on us.
• Free private medical insurance after 1 years' service, including access to a GP, and great levels of income protection and life assurance cover.
• Workplace pension scheme where we match your contributions up to 10%.
• AXA Be Supported.
• A range of reductions and offers from Saga Travel Group as well as leading retailers, travel groups discounts and entertainment companies.

About the Company

At Saga Travel Group, we’re driven by the aim of creating a place where older people are valued for their experiences. We’re a dynamic and forward-looking business with a clear, single-minded purpose: to deliver exceptional experiences every day for our colleagues and customers.

Our values underpin our approach and help guide us. We work with precision, pace, curiosity, empathy and collaboration to create a unique environment for our teams.

The vision for the Saga Travel Group is to build the travel company for the experienced traveller. We already have world-class escorted Saga and Titan touring businesses and now building a new dynamic, digital travel business that will deliver fresh, innovative product.

When you join Saga Travel Group you will work across two leading brands and play a vital role not only in our growth but in our mission to deliver lasting memories for our customers seeing them return again and again.

As an STG colleague you will see that we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement.

We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better. Creating a culture in which everyone feels welcome and offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement is incredibly important to us.

We are an official Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.

We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Moving Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.

We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme. 

To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Any engagement with employees or provision of CVs to employees within Saga where you have not engaged with the Talent Acquisition Team will be considered speculative and Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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