Overview
Client Production Lead
Wood Lane, London, W12
Company Description
Publicis Production is the main global provider of content production for Haleon – a consumer healthcare conglomerate with over 100+ brands we know and love from Sensodyne to Panadol, Emergen-C to Otrivin, Advil to Theraflu, Polident to Voltaren and many more. With innovation and problem solving at the core, Publicis Production will operate as Haleon’s “in-house” entity called CaST – an acronym for Creative at Scale Team.
Our Mission is to drive efficiency, effectiveness and reduce wastage for Haleon. Going beyond the usual dashboard limitations of scheduled reviews and interventions by bringing production, data, and media intimately and seamlessly together and building a data first, creatively driven solution for every brand, campaign and action.
We will defeat the crippling disease of wastage through informed decision making, consistently leveraging our knowledge of the market, audiences, channels, platforms, partners, and formats in the creation of creative assets.
Delivered through our ground-breaking model, where production is fuelled by data insights and an intelligent feedback loop of data is created. It’s enabled by tech integration so that every decision, execution, and reaction create another layer of learning for our systems, ensuring content relevance and reduction of waste.
A bit about us:
Publicis Production is a collection of award-winning production studios with 3500+ production experts across 40 countries worldwide. We are proud makers, producing everything from CG animation to DOOH, to print and live action TVCs for some of the world’s leading brands.
Job Description
We are looking for a Global Production Lead to join us in a vital and key leadership position. This role will be managing and continuously building on the client partnership as well as overseeing a diverse set of teams from account management to operations and data insights, delivering on key campaign assets across multiple brands and markets.
You are responsible for the successful production of Haleon broadcast and digital output for Global Categories. You will manage a team of production planners who support the production of origination for global toolkits, as well as market origination projects.
What will I be doing?
In this role, you'll be responsible for the strategic direction of Haleon global production and its evolution to meet business needs. In addition, you'll have a focus on:
- Client & agency partnership – work directly with global and AOR; be main point of contact for senior global clients, and senior client leadership – to ensure seamless delivery of global and market production requirements – specific to this, it’s imperative to delineate client and agency responsibilities, allowing us to call out the need to partner with cross functional agency team to leverage latest learnings and processes to deliver effectively
- Meeting and exceeding client expectations of brief objectives, timelines and budgets, finding solutions to delivery where there are production challenges
- Team management – overseeing diverse team of production professionals & influence how they engage with market teams to help deliver against objectives
- Delivery of the new production strategies and post production hubs and support the production team across all stages of production through to delivery – ensuring everything is delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard.
Qualifications
What are we looking for?
This role will suit someone currently working as Global Account Lead or Business Director of a production account, head of production in an-house production department, or creative agency, or post-production facility. It is a hybrid production lead / account service role and straddles the best of both areas.
You must have knowledge of working in a fast-paced, global brand environment, and a familiarity with toolkit origination and adaptation. Working out of the EMEA hub, your immediate team is London-based, however you will work collaboratively with colleagues on all continents.
You'll have an excellent knowledge of all production roles, functions, capabilities, equipment and applications, with experience developing cost and time efficient production workflows, as well as a proven track record of successfully managing productions across all budget ranges with multiple deliverables across multiple channels.
Additional Information
Publicis Media has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;
- WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year
- FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave
- FLEXIBLE WORKING & BIRTHDAY DAY OFF You are entitled to an additional day off for your birthday, from your first day of employment
- GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discount with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre
Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us; our home/office split is three days in the office per week, one of which is a Monday, and two working from home.
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