Studio: Paramount
Job Opening: Production Manager – 5
Location: London, GB, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
Finance
- Alongside other UK Production Managers, monitor and report overall budget for the 5 creative team
- Prepare cost estimates for new projects and campaigns as needed
- Provide financial data to Seniors as required.
- Ensure that spending aligns with wider business objectives
- Track freelance costs and flag likely overspends to Seniors/HoP
- Adhere to company guidelines regarding production spend, expenses, and T&E.
Daily production
- Maintain an overview of all assigned projects and ensure resources are available, scheduled, and accurately negotiated at the appropriate time, both in terms of people and facilities.
- Anticipate the needs of upcoming projects and resources appropriately to prevent delays at the start of a project
- Liaise closely with brand marketing, performance marketing, and media planning/media agency to ensure smooth delivery of all content as required
- Supervise the work of other production staff as necessary, delegating tasks as appropriate
- Bring efficiency and rigour to working practices
- Assist with forward planning as required
- Source and recruit freelance teams who are well-suited to projects, where necessary, setting them up on Paramount systems and ensuring they have the equipment and drive/platform access as required.
- Coordinate Clearcast delivery, on-air delivery, and off-air delivery as required
- Run post-production bookings, on-air delivery, and off-air delivery with support as needed.
- Ensure timeframes for creation and delivery are realistic and communicated across the wider business
- Ensure all deliveries are timely and on budget, while adhering to creative ideals.
Legal & business affairs
- Liaison point for compliance workflow, both for in-house and external deliveries.
- Liaise with the legal, HR, and finance departments for all contracts, NDA’s, vendor selection, capex, payments, and implement new company policies effectively into the daily work routine, e.g., freelancer employment guidelines, expenses, and T&E, v/o contract negotiations, be aware of changes to accounts payable processes.
- Awareness of contracts, negotiations, and legal issues (with mentorship from Seniors)
Line management
- Potentially a direct report (to be decided) and managing freelance production staff as necessary
- Effectively resource and support production teams on allocated projects
- Support with recruiting new talent as needed
- Cross-brand working
- This role may involve working across the Creative team, which includes 5 and MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central.
- You will work closely with Production Managers across the other brands to manage deliveries and resources for cross-promotion as needed.
- Embrace the ‘One Paramount’ approach and encourage collaboration and teamwork
- Be an ambassador for all 5, internally and externally
- Adopt and promote the Paramount values and support a culture of inclusion
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience with all aspects of short-form and branding production: ideally within an on-air / off-air / digital / commercials environment.
- Highly organised and planned approach to work.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
- Experience of all types of post-production and graphics facilities is essential.
- Experience in budget creation, forecasting, and management, including forecasting accurately for productions from key art photo shoots to clip-based campaigns to film shoots.
- Accomplished in multi-tasking and leading several projects at any one time
- Experience in project management and production processes across all media formats.
- Experience in solving complex problems.
- Highly numerate.
- Excellent administration skills.
