Casting Manager

Job Introduction

This role will support the Senior Casting Manager in delivering an aspirational model strategy as part of Selfridges creative direction across all creative imagery content. There will be a high volume of womens and mens castings for the E-commerce Photostudio to continuously evolve and maintain a regular model board for International models who are in and out of London. You will also need to support the Creative Production team in casting models and talent for creative Digital content seen on home page, editorial, etc.

You will need to be experienced in managing relationships with Global modelling agencies, particularly building relationships with mother agencies and be highly confident in negotiating competitive day rates and usage buy outs.

Role Responsibility

• Direct line manager of a Castings Coordinator, mentoring and developing their skills along with performance management.
• Conduct weekly model castings across main board and new faces to update and maintain womens and mens model boards accordingly to creative direction.
• Present weekly model presentations to Director of Digital Fashion for new model sign offs.
• Cast models according to budget for the E-commerce Photostudio, driving competitive day rates and strategic longer term bookings with top Global models.
• Collaborate with Fashion Production teams to book models for next day shoots, according to daily brand scheduling, in a fast paced and extremely reactive Photographic studio environment.
• Collaborate with Creative Production teams for model and talent bookings for Digital content.
• Track E-commerce model productivity and feedback to agents any challenges faced on set.
• Maintain a professional and productive attitude living by the company values.

The Ideal Candidate

• Castings experience within the high fashion industry
• Excellent communication and presenting skills
• Ability to work under pressure on multiple casting requests, remain focussed and maintain deadlines within budget.
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Calm and professional personality
• Proactive and flexible attitude
• Demonstrate leadership skills
• Strong customer focus
• Experience working in an e-commerce or studio environment is desirable
• Ability to shoot castings yourself with Canon 5D is desirable but not essential

About the Company

We are a shop run on imagination: a place where the world’s most covetable brands combine with the most extraordinary spectacles, events and ideas for an experience like no other.

We have challenged the rules of retail from day one, whilst demonstrating our unwavering commitment to sustainability.  In 2016, we were the first to be awarded with recognition for the ‘World’s Best Sustainability Campaign by a Department Store’ at the IGDS Global Department Store Summit, in-line with its focus on buying better and inspiring change. We are also recognised as the Best Department Store in the World (2010, 2012, 2014 & 2018) underlining our place at the forefront of retail. In 2018 we were recognised as a LinkedIn Top Company to work for.

Our vision is to be the destination for the most extraordinary customer experience, and our people are central to us achieving this.  As an employer we are committed to making Selfridges an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work

Selfridges