Commercial Content Producer - Off the Ball

About Us
Bauer Media Audio Ireland is Ireland’s premier media company and the home of some of Europe’s leading commercial media brands. Bauer Media Audio Ireland owns and operates a portfolio of media channels with a strong focus on commercial radio and emerging digital media.

The company maintains some of the largest independent radio networks in Ireland and it continues to be one of the fastest-growing radio networks in the world.
Our brands include Newstalk, Today FM, 98FM, Spin, Spin South West, Off The Ball, Red FM, iRadio, Media Central and Go Loud along with Ireland’s largest digital audio platform, audioXi.

Off The Ball is Ireland’s leading radio, digital audio, video, subscription, and social sports network. We create hours of top quality and agenda-setting sports content every week across every major social media platform, the OTB Podcast Network, Off The Ball Breakfast, the Off The Ball radio show on Newstalk, sports bulletins of the Bauer network of radio stations, and on the OTB Sports app as well as building out our network of content for our Off The Ball subscribers. 

About The Role

OTB Sports is looking for a Commercial Content Producer, an experienced content creator to lead programming responses to OTB’s commercial partners.

What You’ll Do:

• Ideation: understand and respond to briefs from commercial clients and agencies. Utilise existing methods of content creation and build on this with new formats, concepts, guests and themes. Be creative.
• Plan: lead planning meetings with stakeholders from all sectors of the business. Share notes and actions, use existing processes to track latest updates and to archive past events. Communicate.
• Produce: coordinate production by liaising with hosts, guests, sound and video engineers, events staff and more to make best-in-class shows for live and on-demand audiences. Drive high standards.
• Co-ordinate: be the central communication point for all stakeholders and build a process around that to support your work – Teams channels, production and broadcast schedules, long term planning calendars. Be relentlessly detailed.
• Audience: work closely with the video production team to identify the best content, seek out platform-appropriate segments, liaise with production teams to ensure contracted deliverables and KPIs are being met. Win new audiences.
• Positive: commercially driven content can often have multiple touch points of input all the way from ideation to broadcast. A positive approach to lead teams and to find solutions is a key asset.
• Flexible: you will be working to tight deadlines and will have a flexible approach to your working week to ensure you can be present at events outside of regular business hours.
• Work closely with OTB’s Head of Content and OTB Commercial team to ensure the timely flow of information at all stages of production.

If the following traits sound like you, you might be the right person for the job:

• Video and audio editing experience.
• A track record of leading a team in an editorial capacity.
• Excellent social media experience - Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok. Photoshop skills a bonus.
• An understanding of analytics to track and report content performance.
• Demonstrate an ability to work in a fast-paced, pressurized environment with the capability of creating outstanding written, video, and audio content.
• Are versatile and have the ability to adapt and engage in a dynamic and supportive team environment.
• A strong interest in all sports – particularly soccer, gaelic sports & rugby across men’s and women’s sport.
• Knowledge of libel and defamation laws.

The closing date for applications is Friday 03 May 2024. 

Our Culture & Rewards

At Bauer Media Audio Ireland we strive to be the most innovative, dynamic and best-in-class media outlet in Ireland. We want more people to spend more time with us. We want to talk to every person in Ireland, every single week, through one of our channels. To make this happen, our team is made up of some of the most passionate and creative people you’ll find. Working here means no two days are the same. The work by its nature is fast-paced, and it can be intense - we work really hard – but we are all here because we truly love what we do.

We are committed to promoting, developing, and facilitating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace culture, and to encourage and support the creation and distribution of content that reflects the diverse audience in Ireland.

Bauer Media Audio Ireland employees believe that the most important thing in creating a happy, respectful workplace culture is to simply act like the kind of person you would like to work with.