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We are partnering with a highly respected independent brand consultancy seeking an exceptional Strategy Director with deep expertise in core brand strategy, brand building, and growth to help shape the future of its strategic offering.This is a senior strategic leadership opportunity for someone who understands that great brands are built from strong foundations through clear positioning, distinctive purpose, compelling propositions, robust brand architecture, and a strategic philosophy that drives long-term growth.You'll bring a proven track record of developing and leading significant brand programmes for major organisations and ambitious challenger brands, ideally with experience across FMCG and food & drink categories, where understanding consumers, culture, behaviour, and brand growth is critical.Working at the intersection of business, brand, culture, and creativity, you'll create strategies that build commercially successful, culturally relevant, and enduring brands. You'll be equally comfortable defining the strategic foundations of a brand and ensuring those foundations translate into powerful creative expression and experiences.This role requires a true brand strategist by craft , someone with a deep understanding of the fundamentals of brand building, rather than solely marketing strategy, communications planning, or innovation. You'll have developed your expertise within a leading branding, brand design, or creative agency environment and understand the rigour, discipline, and impact of world-class brand consultancy.Experience from respected brand agencies would be highly relevant.You'll lead major brand transformation and growth programmes from discovery through to implementation, partnering closely with Design and Client Services teams to ensure strategic thinking creates distinctive, effective, and memorable brand experiences.You'll become a trusted strategic advisor to senior clients, facilitating conversations at board and C-suite level while helping shape the agency's growth through new business, thought leadership, and the continued evolution of its strategic reputation.Beyond client work, you'll play a pivotal role in strengthening the strategy function mentoring talent, raising the quality of strategic thinking, and helping define the agency's strategic approach and future direction.You will:Lead significant brand strategy engagements from insight and discovery through to delivery and activation.Develop robust brand strategies across positioning, purpose, architecture, portfolio strategy, propositions, messaging, and growth frameworks.Establish strategic foundations that enable brands to grow, evolve, and remain culturally relevant.Design and direct research programmes, translating insight into clear, compelling strategic recommendations.Bring a strong point of view on brand building, brand growth, and the role brands play in driving business value.Collaborate closely with creative teams to ensure strategy inspires exceptional brand experiences.Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as a credible strategic partner and advisor.Support business development through pitches, thought leadership, and industry relationships.Mentor and develop strategists, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity, and collaboration.You are an experienced brand strategist with a strong agency background and a passion for building brands that create lasting value.You'll bring:Significant experience within a leading branding, brand design, or creative agency environment.A proven track record of leading complex brand-building programmes for major clients, ideally across FMCG, food, drink, consumer goods, or lifestyle categories.Deep expertise in the fundamentals of brand strategy, including purpose, positioning, architecture, proposition development, portfolio strategy, and brand evolution.Experience shaping brands with a clear understanding of consumers, culture, category dynamics, and commercial growth opportunities.A robust strategic philosophy and the ability to articulate why brands matter commercially, culturally, and creatively.A growth mindset, with the ability to connect brand strategy to tangible business outcomes.Exceptional storytelling, facilitation, and presentation skills.The confidence and credibility to influence senior stakeholders and lead strategic conversations at executive level.Strong cultural awareness and curiosity about consumer behaviour, digital innovation, technology, and AI's impact on brands.A collaborative leadership style with a passion for developing people and elevating strategic thinking.This opportunity is suited to someone who has built their career around brand strategy as a discipline - someone who understands how brands are built, grown, and sustained over time, and who is excited by the opportunity to shape brands, teams, and an agency's strategic future.The role offers the opportunity to lead strategy for globally recognised brands and ambitious challenger businesses, while playing a meaningful role in the growth and evolution of a respected independent consultancy.You'll join a strategically ambitious, creatively driven studio environment with genuine influence over clients, projects, and the future direction of the agency.London-based, studio-first working model. Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We're looking for an outstanding Publicist to join a busy Entertainment team, working with some of the UK's biggest names in media and entertainment.This is an exciting opportunity for a Junior Publicist or PR Executive looking to take the next step in their career, with a genuine passion for entertainment, excellent communication skills, creative ideas and a proactive, can-do attitude.You'll be creative, strategic and highly organised, with a confident, calm presence and a real eye for detail. Experience working with talent at press events, junkets, high-profile red carpets and awards is highly desirable.What you'll doDevelop and deliver creative, integrated PR campaigns for high-profile entertainment clients, securing impactful coverage across print, online, TV, radio and social.Build and maintain strong relationships with talent, managers, agents, media and brand partners.Manage the full PR process, including talent diaries, interviews, shoots, press trips, red carpets and events.Create compelling PR materials, including press releases, biographies, pitch documents and client reports.Handle high-profile stories and PR issues with confidence, while identifying new profile-building and partnership opportunities.Stay ahead of entertainment, media and social trends, identifying emerging talent and opportunities that can benefit clients.About youYou'll have experience in entertainment PR and a strong understanding of the UK media landscape. You'll be comfortable working with high-profile talent and corporate partners, managing busy campaigns and thinking strategically under pressure.Most importantly, you'll be proactive, creative and credible, with the confidence to build strong relationships and deliver great results for clients.If you're ready for your next exciting career move, we'd love to hear from you. Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We're looking for an experienced Business Affairs Manager to join a leading global technology business, supporting its EMEIA Product, Design & Marketing teams.London | Hybrid: 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH5-month initial contract, with scope to extendThis is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong business affairs experience, ideally within technology, who can hit the ground running and work confidently across creative, product, marketing and legal teams.You'll be responsible for business affairs matters across the EMEIA Product, Design & Marketing group, helping ensure third-party content featured across products, platforms and services is appropriately licensed, commissioned, brand-aligned and regionally appropriate.You'll act as a trusted partner to teams, identifying issues early, managing risk and helping projects move forward while balancing legal, commercial, creative and brand considerations.The role will involve advising teams on legal, third-party content and brand considerations, identifying and communicating risks, working with licensors and third parties to secure permissions and clear rights, and supporting compliance across vendors, talent, licensing and publishing.You'll also work closely with Product, Design, Marketing, Creative and Legal teams, flag local legal considerations and content constraints, and provide advice across a broad range of matters including copyright and trademarks.We're looking for someone with:* 5+ years' business affairs experience, ideally in technology* Strong issue-spotting skills and excellent commercial judgement* Familiarity with technology products and digital platforms* Experience working with creative teams and legal stakeholders* Excellent written and verbal communication skills* A highly collaborative approach and the ability to prioritise in a fast-paced environment* Pragmatic legal and brand judgement* A good sense of humour and a genuine team-oriented approach* Working knowledge of Keynote, Numbers and Pages; familiarity with Quip is a plus* Bachelor's degree or equivalentIf you're a commercially minded Business Affairs professional who enjoys working at the intersection of technology, creativity, content and law, I'd love to hear from you.Handle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

We're partnering with a globally recognised technology organisation to find an experienced Digital Production Designer to join a high-performing creative team.This role focuses on the creation, adaptation, and delivery of premium visual assets for customer-facing digital experiences. Working across editorial features, promotional campaigns, and digital storefront content, you'll help bring new products, stories, and experiences to life across multiple platforms and markets.The ideal candidate combines exceptional attention to detail with strong production expertise and enjoys working within established design systems to deliver polished creative at scale.This is a London based role with 3 days based in the office. We cannot consider remote applicants for this role.This position will initially run until the end of the year with scope to extend longer term.Key Responsibilities - Create and adapt visual assets for editorial features, promotional campaigns, and digital storefront experiences.Prepare and optimise creative for multiple devices, screen sizes, formats, and international markets.Maintain consistency across digital experiences by working within established design systems and brand guidelines.Manage multiple asset versions and production workflows while ensuring pixel-perfect execution.Partner with designers, project managers, producers, and business stakeholders to support launches and campaigns.Perform detailed quality assurance checks to ensure accuracy across all deliverable.Experience required - Experience creating and delivering digital assets for app, web, or mobile-first customer experiences.Strong understanding of digital production workflows, localisation, and asset management.Comfortable working on high-profile campaigns with multiple deliverables and tight deadlines.Experience working within large, collaborative creative teams and established design systems. Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

12-Month Contract | London | HybridPaying up to £352 per day + holiday pay (PAYE) *dependent on experienceAn exciting opportunity has arisen with a global leader in the entertainment and streaming industry for an experienced Senior Media Engineer / Media Production Suite (MPS) Support & Deployment Specialist to join their Live Production & Editorial Support team.This role sits within a specialist Post Production Services function that supports world-class film, television and live productions. You'll play a key role in ensuring editorial teams have access to reliable technology, efficient workflows and first-class technical support, helping deliver high-quality content on a global scale.This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives in fast-paced production environments, enjoys solving complex technical challenges and is passionate about supporting creative teams.Key ResponsibilitiesProvide expert technical support for editorial and post-production teams, quickly diagnosing and resolving issues to minimise disruption to live productions.Monitor automated media workflows, file transfers and system health, proactively identifying and resolving potential issues before they impact productions.Act as the subject matter expert for a range of editorial and media management tools, supporting media ingest, asset management, conform workflows, VFX pulls and other post-production processes.Gather feedback from production teams to identify workflow improvements and contribute to the ongoing enhancement of internal tools and services.Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering and regional Production Technology teams to troubleshoot issues, improve workflows and support future platform development.Deliver an exceptional support experience, balancing technical expertise with outstanding stakeholder management and customer service.About You3+ years' experience supporting post-production, media operations or production technology within a studio, broadcaster, vendor or production environment.Strong understanding of production and post-production workflows, including editorial, dailies, conforms, VFX, review and approval processes.Hands-on experience with industry-standard tools such as Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, Baselight, Colorfront OSD, Autodesk Flow Capture (formerly ShotGrid), PIX and Aspera.Comfortable working with command line tools, APIs and common data formats including JSON, XML and CSV.Familiarity with industry file standards such as ALE, EDL, MHL/ASC-MHL and FDL, along with local, SAN and cloud-based storage environments.Experience as a Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) or within on-set production technology is highly desirable and would provide a strong foundation for supporting editorial and post-production workflows.A calm, proactive problem solver who can work effectively under pressure and build strong relationships with technical and creative stakeholders.Flexible to provide occasional out-of-hours support, including evenings or weekends, in line with global production requirements.Why Apply?Join a globally recognised entertainment business at the forefront of content production and technology.Opportunity for growth and development Work on high-profile film, television and live productions using industry-leading tools and workflows.Collaborate with talented engineering, production and product teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.Gain exposure to cutting-edge post-production technology while supporting some of the world's most exciting creative projects. Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We're recruiting for a Mid-Weight Video Editor to join a fast-growing international sports and entertainment organisation.This is an exciting opportunity to create engaging content for a globally recognised sports brand, producing social-first content, YouTube videos, broadcast features, paid media, event content, brand campaigns and commercial partnerships. You'll be part of a collaborative, fast-paced creative team where storytelling, creativity and delivering high-quality content at pace are key.You'll own projects from brief through to delivery, editing everything from short-form social content and reels to long-form documentaries, promotional films and broadcast assets. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys crafting compelling stories, experimenting with creative techniques and thrives in a hands-on production environment.You'll be responsible for:Editing short and long-form content for social media, YouTube, digital marketing, broadcast and live events.Crafting engaging stories through strong pacing, narrative structure and sound design.Creating platform-specific edits across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and other digital channels.Producing motion graphics, captions and graphics using existing templates.Repurposing content across multiple formats, aspect ratios and audiences.Managing media, organising footage and maintaining efficient post-production workflows.Working closely with producers, designers and marketing teams to develop creative concepts and deliver high-quality content.Creating sizzle reels, promotional videos, B-roll packages and branded content for partners and commercial campaigns.Testing creative approaches and using performance insights to optimise content.You'll bring:2-4 years' experience editing video content in a fast-paced agency, production company, sports, media or brand environment.An outstanding showreel demonstrating social-first content, YouTube, branded content and campaign editing.Advanced skills in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.A strong understanding of storytelling, pacing, sound design and motion graphics.Experience creating content for platforms including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn.Knowledge of post-production workflows, media management and delivery specifications.Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.A collaborative mindset, strong attention to detail and an interest in emerging editing tools and AI workflows.Experience working within sport, entertainment or consumer brands would be advantageous.In return you'll receive:Private healthcare.Learning & development budget.25 days annual leave plus Christmas shutdown.Enhanced parental leave.Share option scheme.Event access and additional wellbeing benefits.Please note:This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in the London office.Remote working is not available for this position.Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK, as visa sponsorship is not available. Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

A global entertainment and technology brand is looking for a talented, detail-oriented Production Designer to join its Content Design team in London for an initial 6 month contract.This is a London-based, hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in the office and 2 days working from home. This is not a remote position.This is a role for a designer with exceptional visual design skills, a strong aesthetic point of view, and a sharp eye for typography, composition, layout, and craft. You'll bring creative and technical problem-solving skills to a high-volume production environment, creating clear, compelling, and beautifully resolved visual experiences across digital, social, static, and print.You'll partner closely with Art Directors, Creative Directors, Creative Producers, and cross-functional teams to develop and deliver high-quality creative. You'll translate creative concepts into polished, production-ready visual design and work across high volumes of templates, adaptations, and deliverables, maintaining consistency and an exceptional level of craft at speed.An optimisation mindset is important in this role. You'll identify opportunities to improve workflows, processes, templates, and creative output while maintaining a high level of quality. You'll work iteratively, prototype visual solutions, troubleshoot technical and production challenges, and contribute ideas throughout the creative process.You'll bring a strong understanding of visual hierarchy, typography, composition, layout, colour, and visual systems, alongside an interest in or experience with motion design and moving image.We're looking for someone with 5-7 years of relevant design experience and a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual design, strong aesthetic judgement, impeccable typography and layout, and a high level of craft.You should have:Strong command of visual and communication design principles.Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.Experience with photo retouching and compositing.A strong understanding of typography, graphic design, photography, illustration, and visual storytelling.Interest in or experience with motion design.Experience working across digital, social, static, and/or print.Excellent creative and technical problem-solving skills.A highly collaborative approach, with the ability to work effectively with designers, art directors, producers, and cross-functional partners.Experience managing high-volume creative production and multiple deliverables without compromising quality.Strong organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail.The ability to work independently, troubleshoot issues, and deliver highly resolved work with minimal supervision.A strong eye for contemporary visual culture, trends, and design.Basic understanding of UI/UX principles.Experience working within production specifications and maintaining accurate file structures and naming conventions.You're a designer who can think and execute quickly without losing sight of the details. You have excellent taste, a strong visual point of view, and the ability to turn complex problems into simple, elegant design solutions.You're equally comfortable developing an idea, refining a layout, building out a high-volume template system, or jumping into the details of a production challenge. You thrive in collaboration, communicate clearly, and know how to balance creative ambition with the realities of delivering at scale.You'll be comfortable working within an iterative process and partnering with creatives and producers to continuously optimise workflows, templates, and deliverables.A genuine passion for music, culture, design, typography, photography, and motion is highly valued.You'll need a portfolio demonstrating a high level of visual design and creative execution across digital, social, static, and/or print, alongside proven ability to manage high-volume production and deliver consistently high-quality work at pace.Experience working with global teams across time zones, and a passion for technology, entertainment, music, and contemporary culture, are highly valued.Location: London, UKWorking pattern: Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days working from homeRemote working: Not available Handle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.