THE·TEAM operates at the epicenter of sports, music and entertainment, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. LIVE·TEAM specializes in delivering branding and signage, custom fabrication, live event production and experiential operations across sports, music and entertainment. Working with the world’s most iconic properties and brands, we elevate live events to make them unforgettable.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, THE·TEAM's presence spans 28 countries and more than 70 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit THE.TEAM.
Our production department is the heart of the LIVE·TEAM; this is an extremely busy and diverse department with production occurring everyday across multiple shift patterns delivering high quality and unique live event printed products throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.
The role of Production Manager is to provide comprehensive production management support to the account management teams and the senior production team. You will be tasked with day-to-day job requirements, planning, scheduling, and daily engagement with the production management team.
Please note, this role will be office based 5 days a week.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
- Work effectively with all Account teams, responding as appropriate to new production requirements, update requests and production tracking about projects in production.
- Check, process and track via scheduling software the production of projects, ensuring that they are produced to the correct timeframes and requirements.
- Collate and provide detailed updates on all items in production from the production management team, bringing this detail to the daily production meetings.
- Be point of contact for production floor for initial enquiries and questions on production requirements.
- Running the twice daily production meetings to agreed agenda, identifying pinch points, issues and resolutions.
- Setting up pre-production meetings for key projects, ensuring that the correct departments are involved, production methods are efficient, and materials are ordered in a timely manner.
- Proactively monitor the quality of production output supplied by the production facility, ensuring the quality is kept to a high standard and all elements are produced and collated to the specifics of the job bag and project requirements.
- To manage the production process from “go live” to delivery. Including specification, planning, scheduling and trafficking.
- Advising Business Development and Account Managers on best methods and materials for production for briefing process.
- Quality checks on final products prior to dispatch.
- Liaising and working with Logistics teams for timely and cost-effective dispatch.
- Completion and maintenance of project specific information, including raising of NCR’s, investigating and implementation of rectification to prevent reoccurrence.
- Tracking and reporting time against projects.
THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU NEED:
- Planning & organizational skills.
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience working in planning and scheduling of large format graphics production.
- Passionate about servicing clients internal and external.
- Great attention to detail, along with fantastic communication skills – verbal, written and presentational.
- Experience of print and finishing production techniques of large format graphics.
- Competency at all Microsoft Office packages, as well as good all round computer skills (training provided for MIS system).
- Ability to prioritize and think logically and methodically.
Please note, owing to the nature of event delivery, there may be some unsociable working hours on occasion, including weekend work, to accommodate the delivery of projects.
THE·TEAM does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
