Production Director - Maternity Cover

  • Contract

Job Description

Saatchi & Saatchi are looking for an experienced Production Director to join their team for a maternity cover!

  • 10 month contract 
  • June 2019 to April 2020
  • Part-time 2 or 3 days per week
 

What we're looking for?

Role

  • Work in tandem with a dedicated jobshare partner and ensure seamless handover and collaboration each week
  • Drive creative operations and connect the agency’s departments – creative, production, design, digital, studio and account management.
  • Manage the day-to-day resourcing, scoping, estimating, execution, quality control and general ownership of all integrated productions.
  • Be a point of escalation for Senior Management if and when required.
  • Champion production processes (new and existing), documentation and workflows whilst ensuring the highest possible creative quality.
  • Manage all forms of art buying including the selection of photographers, management of pre-production, shoot production, post production, talent usage, illustration, CGI and retouching.
  • Support creative, production and business management teams with key client meetings as required
  • Autonomously project manage the agency’s new business pitches
  • Forecast requirements and resources based on workflow and provide updates to senior management
  • Nurture and support a team of integrated producers
  • Promote collaboration between Sydney and Melbourne agency and contribute towards a national process
  • Be the point of escalation for production team and other departments
  • Provide some holiday cover (beyond 2-3 days) if required

           

About you

  • Extensive experience in integrated production and creative services; you know how an agency operates
  • 360 degree experience with complex integrated campaigns (content, print, digital etc) with solid with a background in either project management or account management
  • Good negotiation skills and high level of diplomacy
  • Able to prioritise and take ownership of deliverables
  • Curious and interested in innovative solutions and improving efficiencies within creative and production team
  • Ability to make things happen - you’re resourceful and industrious
  • Able to troubleshoot and analyse tasks from multiple points of view
  • Excellent attention to detail – you check everything, then check it again
  • Ability to manage workflows of both creative and studio teams
  • You exude calm and positivity
  • Collaborative and empathetic with all department’s needs – planning, creative, account management and production
  • Strong leadership, proficient in conflict resolution and comfortable in managing and balancing different needs of Senior Management as and when required

If this sounds like you apply today!

 

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