One of the top global agencies is seeking a Freelance Senior Digital Production Manager with an uncanny talent for leading the creative workflow, to take on a long term assignment. You would partner with Creative & Account teams to develop & deliver on creative scopes of work & project schedules. Engagement would be 40 hrs/week for the next few months with the potential to convert to a full time position down the road!

Responsibilities

• Lead creative workflow process by managing department and project budgets and timelines with the goal of having all projects completed on time and on budget
• Develop creative scope of work, project schedules and revise as needed.
• Collaborate closely with creative team in developing project plans, including accurate budgets and rapid yet realistic project schedules
• Manage employee availability schedules and utilization for assigned team members
• Assist the creative team in managing and prioritizing workloads
• Ensure documentation is complete and accurate, create project schedule and assign creative work to team
• Manage all assigned jobs and monitor progress, escalating as appropriate
• Project manage creative deliverables from beginning to end
• Manage communication and approvals between creative and other teams/clients
• Ensures that project tasks are completed by: scheduling and facilitating project-related team meetings (i.e. status, internal/client reviews, etc.), communicating action steps to team, and delivering weekly status reports
• Ensure a responsive, seamless, on-time process from start to finish
• Enforce adherence to work-flow processes and deadlines
• Keep all teams (account/client/creative) informed of conflicts, delays or any other unusual situations
• Attend/lead key planning meetings and weekly status meetings + Manage relationships with all external vendors that range from art houses to printers
• Oversee execution of POs and invoices
• Recommend process improvements

Requirements

• 4-6 years production with a substantial focus on digital projects
• Experience having success with an agency strongly preferred