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Thursday 9th February 2012

Online Producer

Role Summary
As Producer you will manage complex interactive engagements to an acceptable level of risk by balancing scope, time, cost & quality. With your deep understanding of digital production process, you will suggest new routes of delivery; challenge the process to drive a high quality end product with focus on execution. You will provide team leadership, inspire & inform the creative teams to ensure successful outcomes. Working with internal stakeholders across marketing, brand & marcomms, technical and management teams as well as 3rd party agencies, you will assure that the solution we create addresses our customer, stakeholders & business requirements.

Essence of Role 
  • Understand the brief & drive the production team to create the most compelling digital solution 
  • Take ownership of creative concepts & manage to completion to the required quality & standards 
  • Coordinate creative teams, engage & manage third party vendors where required 
  • Work within production management to assess project scoping, sizing & pricing estimates 
  • Drive project delivery through effective use of production & stakeholder progress meetings 
  • Work with other projects to ensure all dependencies & interdependencies are managed effectively 
  • Assure that projects run to schedule & within budget 
  • Maintain awareness of the current industry environment that shapes opportunities for effective Web/Digital solutions (i.e. news events, trends, mergers, etc.). 
  • Clarify & communicate project objectives along with success criteria. 
  • Develop relationships with & ensure the appropriate participation of key stakeholders inside & outside of the Transformation & Online team; provide day-to-day project contact for stakeholders 
  • Manage & control project scope along with any the change control process 
  • Manage the project budgets and resource burn profiles to help shape future team sizing/sourcing needs

Role Dimension
Financial (limits/mandates etc.) 
  • Manage project delivery within budget allocated 
  • Ensure maximum efficiency of production resources to ensure cost efficiency

Non-financial (customers/staff etc) 
  • Manage production resources to ensure successful execution 
  • Ensure all production work streams are aligned to the wider T&O project timelines

Typical Outputs 
  • Coordinated plan of execution across all production work streams including Information Architecture, Design, Development, Copy & Content Editors 
  • Coordinated resource planning to ensure successful execution to screen 
  • Planning inputs to wider T&O plan for specific projects as required 
  • Project reporting during and post delivery including success reporting & lessons learnt for continuous improvement planning

Technical/Professional Expertise
Essential 

  • Appropriate experience 
  • Demonstratable experience of execution of change on time, to budget and quality in a digital environment 
  • Strong project management experience including team leadership & management of large, complex and cross functional interactive agency projects 
  • Significant stakeholder management experience with primary accountability for peer-level stakeholder relationships at a management level 
  • Solid understanding of project management methodologies & tools 
  • Demonstrated ability to manage project, departmental and enterprise risks related to projects, systems & business analysis 
  • Understanding of the latest technologies (3D motion, flash, video) with a passion for the digital world & advertising 
  • Knowledge of software development life cycles, web technologies, web development, and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components 
  • Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, negotiating, and decision making skills 
  • Good facilitation as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills 
  • Proven mentoring, supervisory, and team-building skills

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