Production Manager - Knack

Job Description

Overview

Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for an organizational genius with experience in the production industry to fill this exciting role!

Based in Auckland, the Commercial Creative team specialises in content marketing, harnessing the power of our network of content, platforms and talent for our clients.

We're looking for someone to help manage workflow and production projects for our busy creative team.

Responsible for distributing projects and tasks across the team, providing quotes for production jobs, and managing production budgets, you'll get a kick out of multitasking and being detail focused.

Experience from the production industry will mean that you'll also be familiar with booking crew, putting call sheets together and providing assistance on set.

Responsibilities
• Support creative production for the region and manage workflow – work with internal points of contact to determine volume of production and deliverables required. Therefore, review and understand all contracted production deliverables, allocated budgets and deadlines.
• Identify collaborators that can effectively provide production support for the creative needs of the region, be their main point of contact and supervise their work.
• Work with the Senior Creative Lead and applicable stakeholders to establish and manage efficient processes for production projects.
• Manage client communication on key projects.
• Manage production shoot, budgets and invoices ensuring the Finance team receives all invoices and billing information as required.
• Have a clear understanding of the production process and the resources required for production and shooting, being able to field queries from the wider team about production requirements.
• Manage all IBMS data entry following the release of allocations/worklists.
• Point person for all produced assets, quality control checks of said assets (e.g. technical) and delivery to broadcast/playout and relevant parties.

Qualifications
• Driven individuals with experience in production, shooting (preferably TV) showcasing the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work within a team environment and independently when required.
• Exposure to broadcast tool, IBMS (not essential but preferable)
• Exposure to workflow tool, Asana (not essential but preferable)
• A strategic thinker who can create workflow solutions.
• Love numbers, budgets and embracing of volume projects, costs and negotiation.
• Can adapt to change and work with tight deadlines.

This is an extremely varied position and a huge opportunity for someone who's looking to be part of a dynamic, energetic commercial content team.

If this incredible role sounds like you…what are you waiting for??

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy491k-18-117-107-90-42 in your application.