Assistant Manager, Production Mgmt, SEA

Job Description

Reporting to the Vice President, Kids and Family and MTV Entertainment Brands, Asia, you would play a pivotal part in the brand teams. You will work with creative team leads to prepare, monitor, and manage promotional, creative, and post-production budgets and processes for both Nickelodeon and MTV Entertainment brands. As a production management lead, you are also required to oversee the production process and co-ordinates all activities to ensure that we are maximizing resources to ensure workflow meets required deadlines.

Responsibilities:
• Develop and manage project timelines, ensuring deliverables are met on time and within budget.
• Work closely with marketing, content creators, writers, talents, designers and other team members to ensure that deadlines, budgets and objectives are met
• Assessing project, resources requirements and recommending solutions to take for the project
• Estimates, negotiate (Best value for money), and agreeing to budgets and timelines with internal and external partners, while maintaining the quality and technical standards
• Identify opportunities to streamline production/ workflow processes to improve overall efficiency
• Prepare project budgets and all stakeholders are updated on the cost status during production.
• Effectively lead the on-the-ground management of productions and minimize the risk of budget overspends
• Oversee the smooth running of projects where a level of project management may be required (e.g. scouting for locations and making necessary arrangements for production to begin)
• Work with creative leads to manage creative spending, report submission for review by brand and finance
• Develop a strong relationship with internal stakeholders, freelancers, post-production vendors, and management to implement high-quality content, and seek advice and input from all stakeholders. This is vital for the position
• Prepare a monthly, quarterly, and annual review of brand creative/ production budgets
• Organize relevant training sessions where required especially with the various production/ finance processes
• Ensure that health and safety regulations and clearances are met

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in mass communication, media studies, or other related fields like arts management
• A significant administrative experience working in a fast-paced production and media environment.
• Extensive experience with all aspects of short-form content and creative services production, which includes studios and location, live and to-tape, single and multi-camera, outside broadcast, and all aspects of program post-production, including editing, graphics, shooting, and crews
• Excellent organizational skills to administer the production process
• Good accounting and budgeting skills to keep track of the production budget
• Sound understanding and experience with the media landscape across platforms, content marketing, branded solutions
• A keen eye for talent-platform-content synergies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a dynamic and global environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills which will enable you to interact with a wide range of personalities and build effective relationships at all levels of the organization
• Highly organized, collaborative self-starter with the ability to work under pressure, set priorities, handle multiple projects, and meet tight deadlines

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Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ne68wm-18-221-145-110-42 in your application.