Executive Producer

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Q102 and FM104 Executive Producer

Location: Dublin 

Shows: Breakfast

Dublin’s Q102 is the city’s “FeelGood” radio station and we’re all about feeling good, whether through the music we play or things we talk about.

FM104 is famous for Hit Music but there’s more to Dublin’s favourite hit music station than that. Whether it’s the long running Strawberry Alarm Clock breakfast show that wakes ‘Dubs’ up every morning or Graham and Nathan keeping you company on your drive home.

The Team: The successful candidate will be joining one of the most professional and hard-working teams in the media industry. Made up with varying degrees of experience the Q102/M104 team are an award-winning group.

Your role: We are seeking an experienced creative and innovative Executive Producer to join our team. You will have a passion for radio, a keen ear for compelling content, and the ability to drive forward-thinking programming. You will work closely with the Q102 breakfast show, taking its breakfast show content to the next level.

Day to day you will: 

• Produce the Q102 breakfast show daily 5 days a week.
• Help plan and research shows, from content planning to transmission, maintaining high editorial and production values.
• Ensure the output is of the highest quality with enough experience to guide the presenting team each morning.
• Generate and develop creative original ideas that align with Q102’s brand values.
• Ability to run the show from a technical aspect, including driving the desk and trouble shooting on the fly, taking calls etc.
• Archive audio to locate key audio moments for award entries and a daily podcast(s).
• Work with the marketing team to identify areas of opportunity to promote the show attending marketing meetings and business update meetings on behalf of the show.
• Lead the social media output in conjunction with the digital team including identifying shareable in studio video moments.
• Adhere to broadcasting standards and station guidelines, ensuring content is appropriate and meets regulatory requirements.
• Work with the senior management team to devise features and identify opportunities to grow station audiences, supporting the business and to drive audience growth.
• Working across the broader dublin portfolio to support the Dublin CC and Q102 APD as needed including:
  • Music Scheduling - main music scheduler cover for Q102 and/or FM104
  • S+P idea generation - for individual shows and station wide campaigns supporting the development of  innovative promotional strategies across radio, digital, social media, and events to enhance brand awareness and loyalty.
  • Management of rosters - arranging cover for presenters for annual leave and/or sick leave on both stations
  • Production cover across other shows in the portfolio as required.

What we’re looking for from you: 

• Experience producing a high profile successful radio show in the Irish market or abroad
• Strong strategic thinking, creativity, and project management skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with other teams.
• Ability to run the show from a technical aspect
• Deep understanding of the audience's lifestyle and interests, ensuring content is relatable.
• Awareness of all relevant social media platforms and the ability to create and manage posts.
• Fully competent in Adobe Audition for audio editing.
• A passion for radio, music, and engaging with diverse audiences.
• Talent management experience

We are Wireless Ireland: We create great audio and digital products. Our live radio and podcasts, along with our web and social pages, play a massive part in our listeners lives. We engage, we inform and we entertain with our market leading products. In Ireland we own or represent stations in all main urban centres, and we create award winning solutions for our commercial partners. We are also part of News Broadcasting with radio stations like Virgin Radio, talkSPORT, Times Radio and talkRADIO which are redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms, connected TV and beyond. Wireless Ireland is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at Wireless Ireland: At Wireless Ireland our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive.  Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like.  Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the Wireless Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I  strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes.  We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.

In addition we also offer:

•  25 days holiday per year
•  Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• A pension scheme with employer contributions
• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
•  Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.