Producer

Agency:

GSD&M

Job Function:

Production

Job Subfunction:

Integrated Production

Job Description:

Job Title: Producer

Department: Production

Reports to: Executive Producer / Senior Producer

Supervisory Responsibilities: No

FLSA Status: Exempt

Travel: 35%

Position:

A producer is expected to manage and execute simultaneous projects across all content platforms includin,g television, radio, video, digital or social content. This includes budgeting, scheduling, vendor management, technical specifications, quality assurance, and follows through to actualization of the project. This is a client-facing role with direct client responsibilities during production.

Position-Specific Responsibilities/Duties:

• Initiates/maintains communications and interactions with Account Leadership, Project Management and Creative Teams
• Consults with Creative, Account, Research, and Business Affairs from inception of ideas through completion of production
• Plans and implements production of TV, radio, video, digital or social content upon client approval of storyboards, scenarios, or scripts
• Develops estimates and monitors budgets based on campaign deliverables/change orders
• Generates and adheres to production schedules
• Creates specifications documents based on deliverable scope and definitions
• Determines resource requirements and engages third party vendors as necessary
• Evaluates, solicits bids from, and negotiates with vendors
• Works directly with cost consultants throughout process of production, meeting and adhering to established parameters
• Directs production workflow through pre-production meetings, casting, shooting, recording, editing, music, color correction, and final client approval
• Manages critical path milestones, evaluating risks and developing contingency plans
• QAs ALL final deliverables prior to launch minimizing project risks
• Proactively communicates issues and resolutions to team within agency
• Carries out any additional and unforeseen duties as required, ensuring the project's success

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Three plus years of production experience
• Capable of interacting with clients, client-facing responsibilities on production
• Experience managing the development of projects with external vendors
• Basic knowledge of SAG, AICP, AICE guidelines
• Overall knowledge of film and digital capabilities and nomenclature
• Current knowledge of industry prices, trends, and vendor capabilities
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business and professional communications, technical procedures or governmental regulations
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Foster innovative solutions

Key Characteristics/Desired Competencies:

• People person with potential leadership/managerial skills
• Personality traits: organized, creative, logical, perceptive, decisive, trustworthy
• Team player and consensus builder
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Extremely organized, yet flexible
• Problem solver with ability to multitask
• Positive attitude under pressure
• Outgoing and approachable
• Proactive
• Passionate, curious and knowledgeable about production

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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