Integrated Production Director

Publicis Groupe; Greater London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - GBP 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A creative production agency in Greater London is seeking an Integrated Production Director. This role involves managing a team of Integrated Production Managers, overseeing client projects, and ensuring top-notch production quality. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in project management and creative solutions, with a proven ability to lead teams and navigate challenges effectively. Emphasis is placed on client management and craft excellence across various media forms.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Solid project management experience from a creative agency or production company.
• Ability to lead through challenging productions.
• Good business acumen and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Serve as agency partner and primary contact for client accounts.
• Develop and maintain best practices in project management.
• Track financial status and ensure project delivery within agreed scope.

Skills

Project management

Client management

Team leadership

Creative thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Job description

Overview

Publicis Production is ambitious and growing. To strengthen our offering, we are looking for a craft-focussed Integrated Production Director who cares passionately about production.

You will have a strong, integrated production knowledge of print, digital, social and art-buying (moving image and post production experience are a bonus). As important, are your client management and team leadership qualities – you will manage a team of Integrated Production Managers and be the lead Agency production-partner for one (or more) identified end-clients, responsible for strategy and output from pipeline through brief stage to delivery.

You will be controlling and managing projects with business-critical deadlines, working with our internal departments - from print, to film, to post production - ensuring effective management of relationships, craft, budgets, timings, client feedback and weekly/daily client and internal status meetings.

You need to be in the detail daily while having a ‘bigger picture thinking’ approach to identify opportunities and support business and team growth on your accounts and across the wider Production Management team.

Responsibilities

• Agency partner and primary contact for agency and client work on your identified accounts.
• Develop, implement and rigorously maintain best practice principles in all areas of your account(s): pipeline, briefing, budgeting, scheduling, agency and client approval chains, timings, SOW management and relationships.
• Define and agree ways of working with client(s).
• Running weekly client status sessions while being available to your agency partners to find solutions as required
• Understanding, mapping and owning the annual client programme of work.
• Being aware of all live and upcoming projects through regular and consistent communication with agency partners.
• Interrogate all projects from a production perspective, selecting the best approach.
• Manage and deliver projects.
• Fully understand client budgets. Ensure projects are delivered within the agreed scope and raise changes appropriately.
• Track and report financial status of a project against estimate.
• Highlights potential overruns before they occur.
• Oversight of all integrated campaign scopes owned by your team.
• Be creatively centric and drive delivery excellence across the agency and the brands you’re associated with, ensuring the highest standards of creativity and craft are always upheld.
• Collaborate with the Heads of Studio to manage & track live and pipeline projects.
• Review 'production brief to live' Publicis Production process to question and find improvements and optimisations
• Forecast resource requirements for the duration of the project and yearly SOW.
• Project Manager team lead with line management responsibilities.
• Lead bi-weekly 1-to-1’s with your team members and contribute to team member appraisals with the Integrated Production Lead.
• Collaborate with IPD peers on mapping out training needs across the team and across our clients.

Qualifications

• Passionately creative with solid project management experience – ideally from a creative agency or production company.
• Solution focussed, calm and with an apptitude for decoding tricky situations.
• The ability to lead agency and internal partners through challenging productions.
• Proven experience of managing projects and implementing innovative production and process solutions.
• A team player with the ability to work collaboratively.
• A leader who cares about finding opportunities and developing skills within your team.
• The project go-to person, able to provide the latest status on delivery, budget and resourcing.
• Have an eye for identifying risks before they become issues.
• A can-do and strong client service attitude with a commitment to quality and the will to constantly drive improvements.
• Good business acumen, sound judgment and excellent attention to detail.
• Lead the team in delivery of projects while being a calming influence.
• Strong written & verbal communication.

Additional information

Diversity and inclusion is a core part of who we are at Publicis Production. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group – whatever their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion doesn’t just fuel our creativity and innovation, it brings us closer to our people and audiences. We will continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered and more importantly comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process. If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.