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 is responsible for driving and managing solutions and deliverables with internal and external teams, clients and supplier partners. An excellent communicator who excels in details with proven client, supplier and retailer interface. This individual will be responsible for 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.   

Day To Day:

  • Support 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 on schedule with the ability to adapt quickly and positively to ever-evolving project, client, and team needs.
  • Support all areas of producing, proto-typing, execution, including manufacturing internally/externally.
  • Understand key agency, client, supplier, and retailer functions, roles, processes, systems, and timing.
  • Collaborate with Creative to bring concepts to life, ensure feasibility, and drive innovative solutions.
  • Lead supplier engagement including procuring product samples, prototype management, production art in dielines, and art release to separator and supplier.
  • 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 maintaining a Job Status Report on all production related projects and delivering post project KPI’s/Value Creation.
  • Communicate with PreMedia to manage die-lines, specs, proofs, and other production related deliverables.
  • Responsible for gathering all necessary documentation from suppliers and approvals to expedite billings and payment.
  • Travel for clients’ meetings, press checks, first article inspections and assembly ensuring quality control as needed.
  • Successfully backfill Senior Production Manager when they are out of the office ensuring projects continue to run smoothly.
  • 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

  • 3-5 years agency or project management experience required. 
  • Graphic assets management, print and production preferred. 
  • Experience proactively leading and collaborating with clients, network cross-functional teams and supplier partners with minimal supervision required. 
  • BA degree in marketing, logistics, graphic design or related field.

REMOTE PART TIME: This role needs to be located in our location, Northwest Arkansas due to client facing expectations.  We understand this role will be hybrid (work from home & in the office). We have begun retuning safely to offices in a hybrid work model – our goal is to provide the opportunity for purposeful collaboration while being flexible to the needs of the individual.

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