Overview
Production Manager Jobs in London Area, United Kingdom at Lisa Eldridge Beauty
Title: Production Manager
Company: Lisa Eldridge Beauty
Location: London Area, United Kingdom
Production Manager
Reporting to: Lisa Eldridge
Location: London (with flexibility)
Type: Full-time, permanent
The opportunity
Lisa Eldridge Beauty is a premium beauty brand built on artistry, education and authentic storytelling. Content is at the heart of everything we do – from long-form YouTube editorials and major campaign shoots, through to weekly social output and performance-driven paid media.
As Production Manager, you will be the operational engine behind all of it. You will own the logistics that make great content possible – scheduling shoots, managing crews, overseeing post-production pipelines and ensuring assets are delivered on time, to brief and to the standard the brand demands.
This is a role for someone who is exceptionally organised, calm under pressure and deeply experienced in managing complex, multi-format production schedules. You will not be the creative lead – that sits with the Lisa – but you will be the person who makes the creative vision a practical reality.
The production landscape you will manage
Our content spans four pillars, each with distinct production requirements:
While each of these pillars has its own producer in place you will oversee the production of content under 4 distinct but overlapping areas.
House of Eldridge – quarterly planning
Long-form editorial content: YouTube series, podcast episodes, Lisa-led tutorials, and behind-the-scenes storytelling.
Brand Content – quarterly planning
Campaign shoots, product photography, model casting, packshots, texture shots and visual merchandising content for retail and e-commerce. Typically the highest production complexity, involving full crews: DOPs, photographers, retouchers, CGI artists, hair, make-up and casting.
HOE Organic Social – weekly output
Shorter-form shoots and edits adapted for TikTok, Instagram and other platforms. Faster turnaround, lighter crew, but still requiring careful scheduling to maintain daily brand presence without overloading the production team.
Paid Media – weekly output
Performance cutdowns, hook variations and launch support assets adapted from existing content. Primarily an edit and delivery management task, coordinating with social editors and the paid media team to hit weekly deadlines.
What you will do
Planning & scheduling
- Own the monthly production calendar, translating briefs into detailed shoot and edit schedules
- Lead the monthly production meeting, allocating resource across all four pillars for the month ahead
- Manage the weekly alignment process, tracking what is in production, what is in post and what is going live
- Anticipate bottlenecks before they happen and propose solutions proactively
Crew & supplier management
- Build and maintain a trusted network of freelance DOPs, photographers, retouchers, graders, CGI artists, editors, social editors, hair and make-up artists
- Brief, contract and manage all production crew and external suppliers
- Negotiate rates and manage production budgets, tracking spend against agreed budgets and flagging variances early
- Ensure all suppliers meet the brand’s quality and aesthetic standards
Shoot management – working with existing in house production
- Oversee all shoot days end-to-end:
- Ensure shoots run on time and to brief, troubleshooting issues calmly and decisively on the day
Post-production & asset delivery
- Manage the post-production pipeline: edit schedules, retouch briefs, grading, CGI sign-off and final delivery
- Oversee the digital asset management system, ensuring all final assets are correctly labelled, stored and accessible
- Coordinate asset delivery to the website, social teams, paid media and retail/VM partners to agreed deadlines
- Track and manage multiple concurrent deadlines without dropping threads
Who you are
You are someone who finds genuine satisfaction in running a tight, well-organised production operation. You are not frustrated by logistics – you are energised by them. You take pride in the fact that when you are doing your job well, the creative team barely notices the machinery behind the work.
Essential
- Significant experience in a production management role within fashion, beauty, luxury or a closely adjacent creative industry
- A strong track record managing complex, multi-format shoot schedules and post-production pipelines simultaneously
- Experienced in managing freelance crew across the full production spectrum: DOPs, photographers, retouchers, editors, CGI, hair and make-up
- Confident managing production budgets, with a rigorous approach to tracking spend and flagging issues early
- Exceptionally organised, with excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach to scheduling
- Calm and solutions-focused under pressure – a shoot-day problem-solver, not a panic-er
- Strong communicator who can manage upwards to the Head of Content and across to creative, marketing and external partners
Highly desirable
- Experience managing digital asset management systems and content management workflows
- Familiarity with the specific production requirements of e-commerce content: packshots, swatches, PDPs
- Understanding of social content production cadences and the demands of daily platform output
- Experience coordinating retail and visual merchandising content delivery
How you will work
You will attend the monthly planning meeting translating the agreed creative plan into a production schedule before the month begins. Each Monday you will run – or contribute to – the weekly alignment meeting, tracking live production across all four pillars.
Day to day you will work most closely with the Brand team and the Social/Content Editor and external production partners. You will have a clear mandate to make production decisions independently within agreed budgets and timelines, escalating to the Lisa when creative or strategic input is needed.
The goal is simple: the creative team should be able to think and create, confident that the production machinery is in safe hands.
