Studio: Fabrique d’images
Job Opening: Production Manager
Location: Luxembourg, Europe
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain the production schedule in accordance with the deadlines.
- Track all costs (cash in & out) and report production progress through scoreboards to ensure the production stays within the budget.
- Communicate and troubleshoot budget problems with Line Producer, Head of Production and Producers.
- Communicate with accounting and production administrator for all administrative and financial topics.
- Anticipate needs for new resources and hire the staff required for the production.
- Negotiate and ensure follow-up with external service providers, contractors and sub-contractors.
- Work with the team on a daily basis to ensure that the departments outputs are aligned with the production schedule.
- Produce and maintain a detailed weekly production report with deadlines for all the individual departments.
- Run Production meetings.
- Help developing strong relationships with partners to ensure daily communication runs smoothly.
- Coach co-production coordinators
- Do performance reviews together with the leads to provide crew with clear feedback.
- Help on the development, maintenance & improvement of the production Shotgun website, create and update process documents for the production.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Excellent command of written and oral English and/or French.
- At least 4 years of experience in Animation production at the same role.
- Strong knowledge of animation workflow processes, both 2D & 3D from pre-production to post-production
- Very good communication and interpersonal skills
- Pro-active, anticipating and solution-oriented
- Very good organization and rigor in the work
- Computer skills required: Microsoft Word, Excel, (Macro & VBA skills will be a plus), Shotgrid.
- Ability to communicate effectively and tactfully with production team including Producers, Co-Producers, Directors and artists both written and verbally
- Ability to organize, schedule, and delegate work effectively
