Jobs and career vacancies in magazine publishing, design, financial training with Bladonmore
We are always looking for talented people. If you feel that you've got what it takes to join Bladonmore, let us know.
Send a letter explaining how you could add value to our business, along with a CV and details of your current role and remuneration, to:
Careers, Bladonmore Ltd, 10-11 Percy St, London W1T 1DN
email:
phone: 0207 631 1155
We are currently recruiting for the following roles:
- Account Manager
- Operations Manager
- Sub Editor
- Production Assistant
- Freelance Designers
- Managing Editor
- Art Director
- Magazine Designer
- Freelance Expert Trainers
- Freelance Corporate Film Makers: Producers / Directors / Editors
Bladonmore Training Ltd
Job Title: Account Manager
Company Information
Bladonmore Training is a bespoke training and coaching business focused on helping businesses communicate more effectively. We work at senior levels within organisations and deliver results for our clients by using a large team of experts, including many well known journalists. We offer relevant and effective coaching with high level strategic advice and outstanding service.
The role:
You will work closely with the Account Director of Bladonmore Training and take responsibility for a number of key accounts. This will involve managing key relationships and ensuring that Bladonmore is front of mind when it comes to their communications training needs. Over time you will take full responsibility for a business sector.
This is a demanding job requiring a strong individual capable of working at the highest levels in businesses across the UK, Europe and globally.
Day to Day Responsibilities
Reporting directly to the Account Director of Bladonmore Training, this position will encompass the following:
- Dealing with existing clients face to face, over the telephone and via email to develop relationships with existing clients and strengthen historic clients’ recognition of Bladonmore.
- Assisting with new business pitches and working on large pitches within a team.
- Generating direct leads through developing referral relationships.
- Liaising daily with the operations team and working closely within a small team environment.
- Developing deep and long term relationships within the organisation and other departments.
Attitude & Skills required
- A minimum of 5 years relevant account management experience.
- Passion for nurturing relationships with clients and developing business.
- Must have effective time management and organisational skills.
- This position demands the ability to influence through written/interpersonal, presentation skills.
- Must be a self-starter and a goal-oriented individual who can function independently and as part of a team.
- A genuine interest in human communications
- A sense of humour and unflappable attitude are an advantage.
Please send CV and a covering letter to careers@bladonmore.com
No agencies please!
Bladonmore Training Ltd
Job Title: Operations Manager
Due to our rapid expansion we require an Operations Manager to work closely alongside the Managing Director and Operations team.
The ability to cope with change and variable workload while delivering a consistent high level of customer service is essential.
In this job you are responsible for the smooth running of the operations of Bladonmore Training. Success in this job will be judged by client satisfaction, developing a happy team and careful cost control.
This job involves fast and efficient response to demanding clients. Much of the work is time sensitive and critical to the success of our clients' businesses. At the same time you need to manage and grow a team in a fast moving business environment to support the rest of the business.
Bladonmore has a blue chip client base including some of the largest companies in Europe. While our work is international, this job will be office based, in London.
Main Responsibilities
- Day to day booking of courses, trainers, camera people, venues etc including pre- training research and post-training feedback and assessments.
- Managing and supporting the Operations team, at present two people but you will be expected to grow the team over the next year.
- Booking and arranging travel when needed.
- Trainer Development: Sourcing and developing the next era of Bladonmore trainers. Working to build the next tier of trainers and coaches and building loyalty by them towards Bladonmore
- Responsible for ensuring feedback is in a position to be delivered by account managers within the 72 hour time frame.
- Managing the implementation of large training contracts, with the account directors, to include booking delegates onto courses, managing course timetabling and regular reporting
- Creating and operating systems and processes to enable the highest quality of service at a reasonable price. Quality control.
- Keeping clients happy - responsiveness, satisfaction, world class service.
- Reducing costs of managing clients though improving and running efficient systems and processes.
- Trainer Sourcing (including rate negotiation) for all courses delivered by BT.
- Reporting on performance and KPIs
- Supporting Sales - Providing a level of service and client satisfaction that the sales team can be proud of.
Skills
- Must have outstanding verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Must thrive and enjoy working under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Must have management experience as you will be expected to manage and grow a team
- Must have experience in an operational role.
- Must be a self-starter who can function independently and as part of a team.
- Passion for nurturing relationships with trainers.
- Must have highly developed time management and organisational skills.
- Good negotiating skills.
- Excellent Word, Excel and Outlook skills
Please email your CV and a covering letter to careers@bladonmore.com
No agencies please!
Bladonmore Media
Job Title: Sub Editor
Bladonmore Media’s output spans magazines, copywriting and film work. Our blue chip client base includes: KPMG, ICAEW, Baker Tilly, Bridgepoint, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Linklaters and a number of leading business and investment organisations.
Bladonmore Media has ambitions to significantly grow its publishing client base over the next 18 months.
Day to Day Responsibilities
- To take responsibility for the written accuracy of the final output of Bladonmore Media
- To devise and maintain production schedules in conjunction with the Managing Editor and the Account Management team
- To act as principle sub-editor on a number of projects
- To manage freelance sub-editors and proof-readers, assessing the need for additional resources where appropriate and within agreed budgets
- To work closely and effectively with the design team
- To work closely and effectively with freelance contributors when necessary
- To ensure the verbal accuracy of final pitch documents and proposals.
- To liaise with clients when required
Skills
- Min 5 years subbing experience
- B2B publishing background preferred
- Basic literacy in InDesign
- Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Must be a self-starter who can function independently and as part of a team.
- Must have effective time management and organisational skills.
Please email your CV and a covering letter to careers@bladonmore.com
No agencies please!
Bladonmore Screen Media
Job Title: Production Assistant
Bladonmore Screen Media is the multi award-winning film and video production department of Bladonmore Media. We produce a range of films and interactive video products for clients including ArcelorMittal, August Equity, Doughty Hanson, KPMG, BNP Paribas, Phoenix Equity Partners, UNITE Group plc and Creston plc. Our work includes investor relations, private equity deal case studies, sales and marketing, CSR and internal communications projects. Bladonmore provides a full service for its clients that encompasses the generation of creative and editorial ideas, script-writing, shooting throughout the world, post production and distribution across a range of media, from DVD to the internet, either as streaming video or downloadable as podcasts.
The role:
Reporting directly to the Director of Screen Media and supporting the work of two Producers, this position will encompass the following:
Main responsibilities
Production / Project Management of Film / Video Projects
Production duties of the Production Assistant will involve, but is not limited to, the following:
- Resource allocation + logistics management across a slate of projects - including providing regular internal updates on progress.
- Assisting the Producers in the creation of budgets and schedule for their projects.
- Sourcing freelance creative and technical talent.
- Organisation of shooting schedules on behalf of the Producers, including the preparation of call sheets.
- Responsibility for all travel-related matters in support of all Screen Media projects.
- Administration of finances: including generation of purchase order requests, project cost control and liaison with Bladonmore Accounts Department on all such matters.
- Management of media asset library, including tracking all incoming and outgoing materials.
- To be responsible for digitising all film material shot at the end of each filming day on all Screen Media projects.
- To be responsible for the logging and indexing of rushes – particularly interview material – using Final Cut Pro.
- To be responsible for encoding video files (including working cuts of projects and completed films) for online and DVD delivery.
- Management of production music library, including the preparation of cue sheets on project completion.
- Rights-clearance for any third-party assets used within a project.
- Management of requests from clients for the duplication and versioning of completed projects.
- Occasional research-based projects under the direction of a Producer.
- Occasional need to undertake simple shoots using Z1 or similar camera equipment.
Screen Media Business Unit
- To maintain and to develop supplier relationships including links with key freelance and other external suppliers. This will include maintaining and updating a database of suppliers and working with the Director of Screen Media to source new talent, where necessary.
- To develop and manage processes within Screen Media for the management of finances, production schedules and company / group reporting including but not limited to Salesforce (company sales database).
- General administrative support to all members of the Screen Media team.
- To be an ambassador for the business at all times.
Attitude & Skills required:
- A multi-skilled individual with a minimum of 2-3 years experience as a production assistant working on high quality film, video, digital / interactive media projects for corporate clients.
- Basic level of competency with Apple Final Cut Pro is essential. Knowledge of other Final Cut Studio applications (particularly Compressor and DVD Studio Pro) would be an advantage.
- Experience self-shooting on Z1 camera equipment would be an advantage.
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience of working for IVCA member organisations.
- The ideal candidate is self -reliant, creative, commercial and a committed team player with excellent people, project and time management skills and a passion for creative and technical excellence.
- A sense of humour and unflappable attitude are an advantage.
Other matters to consider
- Work involves regular unsocial hours at weekends and in the evenings. Long hours and time spent in on location or in edit suites are the norm.
- You need to be highly motivated by success and pressure. Flexibility and mobility are extremely important, as is the ability to handle financial responsibility.
- Travel during the working day is frequent. Overnight stays are also common when filming is taking place. Overseas work or travel can occur, but is occasional.
Please email your CV and a covering letter to careers@bladonmore.com
No agencies please!
Job Title: Freelance Designers
We are always looking for designers/artworkers to add to our freelancing books to work on ad-hoc projects in-house at our offices in W1.
- Experienced magazine designers to work on B2B publications. To be responsible for the design of magazines, newsletters and other corporate literature for blue-chip clients using InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
- We also need designers with experience of designing annual reports, corporate identities, websites and epromos, corporate brochures, deal mailers, PowerPoint templates, MS Word templates, press advertisements, financial research material and other marketing collateral.
Please send your details and any examples of work to careers@bladonmore.com stating what your daily rates are. We look forward to hearing from you.
No agencies please!
Bladonmore Media
Job Title: Managing Editor
Company Information
Bladonmore Media’s output spans magazines, copywriting and film work. Our blue chip client base includes: KPMG, ICAEW, Baker Tilly, Bridgepoint, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Linklaters and a number of leading business and investment organisations.
Bladonmore Media has ambitions to significantly grow its publishing client base over the next 18 months. It needs a management team that includes an individual responsible for our editorial excellence to realise this potential. Striving for editorial excellence in everything we produce within the context of client boundaries and budgets is at the heart of this role.
The company is going through a period of rapid growth so the ability to cope with change and variable workload while delivering a consistent high level of customer service is essential.
The role and its responsibilities:
- Ensure that we successfully translate the strategies of our clients into compelling and engaging publications.
- Mange a team of external freelance editors and lay ground to develop in-house editor(s) in times to come. This means setting in place the processes and protocols by which these individuals operate. In particular we need to be particularly tight when it comes to successfully commissioning and setting the parameters by which editors and clients approach the journalists.
- Manage a Senior Art Director.
- Manage a (freelance) production manager: This means setting in place the processes and protocols by which these individual operate.
- Manage a sub-editor: This means setting in place the processes and protocols by which this individual operates.
- Interact successfully with the Head of Account Management.
Ideal candidates will have a strong background in business or financial publications, with an ability to manage occasionally demanding clients.
Meticulous organizational skills, rounded editorial abilities and the ability to work effectively in a deadline-driven environment is important. Effective written and verbal communication skills are crucial. An ability to understand the business objectives of clients is fundamental for succeeding in this role.
Skills:
- Proven editorial skills developed over at least 5 years in a business and finance environment
- Proven ability to handle commercial editorial projects from inception to completion
- Experience of managing multi-disciplinary editorial teams
- Basic literacy in InDesign
- Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Must be a self-starter who can function independently and as part of a team.
- Must have effective time management and organisational skills.
Please send your CV and covering letter to careers@bladonmore.com
No agencies please!
Job Title: Art Director
Bladonmore Media’s output spans magazines, copywriting and film work. Our blue chip client base includes: KPMG, Baker Tilly, Bridgepoint, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Linklaters and a number of leading business and investment organisations.
Day to Day Responsibilities
- Manage design output of Bladonmore Media Ltd including publications, online content, and design focused work. Success will be judged by a combination of consistently high quality output that puts a smile on client’s faces + tight budgetary control + excellent people management and development. This role is about championing the value of high-calibre design.
- Daily interaction with the Account Director and Managing Editor of BM teams to ensure work is delivered to clients’ satisfaction. The process by which these three centres of excellence operate and report is critical to the long term success.
- Management of an in-house team and a freelance pool of designers.
- Liaise and guide clients in all aspects of design work.
- Liaise with Production Manager on producing PDFs; sending of PDFs and other relevant material to the printers.
- Be aware of unfolding trends in design and source inspiration from a multiple number of channels.
- To attend client meetings, take client briefs and present original design ideas.
- To generate boarded-up work for presentation to clients.
- To source suitable imagery for publications.
Requirements
- Proficient in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
- At least 3-4 years design and management experience.
- Must have experience designing B2B magazines.
- Able to work as part of a small team.
- You must be self sufficient and enthusiastic.
- Background in dealing with financial or business services would be ideal.
- Natural flare and enthusiasm for design.
- Confident with a “can do” attitude.
Please send your CV and samples of work to careers@bladonmore.com
No agencies please!
Job Title: Magazine Designer
Bladonmore Media’s output spans magazines, copywriting and film work. Our blue chip client base includes: KPMG, Baker Tilly, Bridgepoint, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Linklaters and a number of leading business and investment organisations.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- To be responsible for the design of magazines, newsletters and other corporate literature for blue-chip clients using InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
- Attend client meetings, take client briefs and present original design ideas
- Generate boarded-up work for presentation to clients
- Generate print-ready PDFs
- Source suitable imagery for publications
- Working with external freelancers
- Assisting in “mocking-up” designs as required
- To undertake such other tasks including general administrative duties as may be required from time to time
Requirements:
- Proficient in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
- At least 3-4 years design experience.
- Must have experience designing B2B magazines.
- Able to work as part of a small team.
- You must be self sufficient and enthusiastic.
- Background in dealing with financial or business services would be ideal.
- Natural flare and enthusiasm for design.
- Confident with a “can do” attitude.
Please send your CV and samples of work to careers@bladonmore.com
No agencies please!
Job Title: Freelance Expert Trainers
Bladonmore helps senior management communicate with the financial markets; with investors; internally and with the media by coaching them to deliver their stories more effectively. We are currently advising some of the most interesting firms in the UK and internationally for their results, capital market days, roadshows and fundraisings. Bladonmore is the leading firm in this field, working for 13 of the top 20 Financial PR firms; global corporations and many top banks. We have blue chip clients and have developed proven training techniques for making lasting changes with our clients.
Bladonmore always need experts to work with us as freelance trainers. We are looking for individuals with corporate communications and financial market experience who want to help communicate that expertise and can work at CEO and CFO level.
Our particular need at the moment is for people with backgrounds in corporate communications, financial PR, equity analysis; equity sales; corporate finance or fund management.
Most important is the right temperament to get rapid change from people.
To discuss these opportunities, please email careers@bladonmore.com with a copy of your CV.
No agencies please!
Bladonmore Screen Media
Job Title: Freelance Corporate Film Makers: Producers / Directors / Editors
Bladonmore Screen Media is the multi award-winning film and video production department of Bladonmore Media. We produce a range of films and interactive video / audio products for clients operating in the business, finance and investment markets. Our work includes investor relations, private equity deal case studies, sales and marketing, CSR and internal communications projects. Bladonmore provides a full service for its clients that encompasses the generation of creative and editorial ideas, script-writing, shooting throughout the world, post production and distribution across a range of media, from DVD to the internet, either as streaming video or downloadable as podcasts.
We are keen to build our roster of freelance producer / directors, director / editors or any other combination of the same with experience in corporate film and video production. Much of our work is financial in nature with investor films and business case studies forming the bulk of the production slate. We are looking for experienced corporate film makers who can interpret the often complex needs of our clients and create innovative and engaging stories that are meaningful to a demanding business audience.
Please get in touch by email if you are a hands-on film-maker with a strong track record in corporate production. Tell us about your skills, experience and credits - please be aware that we shall ask to see examples of your recent work.
NB. producers - you will need to demonstrate strong client management, financial and production skills; directors - we are looking for more than just DV self-shooters: you will need to demonstrate experience of working with broadcast crews; editors - our workflow is based on high end FCP and Apple Pro Apps. Also, whilst we do not expect people to be "jacks + jills of all trades", combinations of these skills are most useful to us.
Please contact us at screenmedia@bladonmore.com
No agencies please!