Associate Production Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

We partner with our clients to create ideas rooted in shopper psychology.  Together, we help our clients deliver results while setting them up for success in the future. It’s simply what happens when you have strategy, creative, and execution working to reach shoppers when and where it matters most.

Our approach isn’t actual rocket science, but there’s a reason no other agency can execute ideas like we do.

Talent is at the heart of everything we do. 
We’ve put together a team of talented and passionate individuals from around the globe.

Job Description

This role supports Production Management driving and managing solutions and deliverables with internal and external teams, clients and supplier partners. An excellent communicator with ability to excel in details with client, supplier and retailer interface. This individual supports production management, mitigating risk, quality and collaboration with network cross-functional teams to ensure our clients succeed. A fun, upbeat personality is required with great communication skills and proven capability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.   

Curiosity Demonstrate a passion for the unknown; push to uncover new solutions to answer the why behind the challenge. Understand shopper behavior and how it can be influenced through creative output.  Possesses a desire to continuously learn, share new technologies and seek out ways to solve problems.

Fearlessness Push the work forward by asking questions and leading the client and cross-functional team in making informed decisions.  Understand the impact of mistakes and learn through them.  Employs radical candor with others in order to resolve situations head-on.

Hustle Delivers on tight timing, mitigating risks and handling expedited deliverables.

Customer Passion Be an inclusive partner to your colleagues and other disciplines within the agency. We succeed together, and we fail together. Accept feedback and problem-solve to find the best possible solution, then make revisions.

Ownership Extreme ownership means taking ultimate accountability for our work, our team, our results, and our agency.  The decisions we make and how we lead should be made as if the business is our own – because it is. A business first mindset!

 Humanity By celebrating the human element as the foundation of everything we do, we nurture big ideas, bring joy to collaboration, and build meaningful connections with each other, our partners and our clients.

Day to Day

  • Fulfill executional project requirements including client, retailer, supplier and internal production processes.
  • Manage, track and communicate daily updates to internal and external teams. 
  • Plan, organize and execute projects on schedule. 
  • Understand key agency, client, supplier, and retailer functions, roles, processes, systems, and timing.
  • Proactively adapt quickly and positively to ever-evolving project, client, and team needs.
  • Collaborate with Creative to bring concepts to life, ensure feasibility, and drive innovative solutions. 
  • Create effective presentation content for agency, clients, suppliers and/or network partners.
  • Support production management of physical shopper marketing tactics and experiences from ideation through execution and compliance.
  • Comprehensive graphic asset management. (acquire, review, process and/or release) 
  • Communicate with Pre-Media managing die-lines, specs, proofs, and art release.
  • Support supplier management of assigned projects including product samples, prototype management, die lines, purchase orders, art out, internal vendor proofs, inbound primary product, outbound logistics, POD's, final invoicing and KPI’s.
  • Negotiate competitive bids with suppliers providing budgets and estimates for all internal and external costs, delivering best value to our clients.
  • Maintain thorough documentation of job specs, costs, efficiencies and timelines supporting post project KPI’s/Value Creation.
  • Travel for clients’ meetings, press checks, first article inspections and assembly ensuring quality control as needed.
  • Identify and support business growth opportunities. 
  • Ability to use radical candor in all communication and resolving conflicts. 
  • Ability to recognize and celebrate success of others in the department and agency. 

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE 1-3 years agency or project management experience required.

Preferred experience should include corporate retail experience, graphic asset management, print, retail display development/production and/or execution. Ability to proactively lead and collaborate with department, clients, cross-functional teams and supplier partners. BA degree in marketing, logistics, graphic design or related field required. 

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