Production Manager

Company Description

Within Publicis Groupe's Intelligent Creativity business, we specialize in bringing creative ideas to life, and to consumers. By combining 100 years of craft excellence with 6,000 experts across 52 locations of the world's biggest studio network, we leverage the industry's richest data, through the power of agentic AI, to radically redefine content production with Intelligent Content. We intuitively deliver this through Marcel Makes, the world's first Intelligent Content agent. The result? Predictively performing content that unlocks business growth in unprecedented ways. No more guesswork. No more waste.

Just content that works, working a lot harder.

Overview

As PepsiCo's food's content production partner globally, our goal is to deliverthe highest production craft whilst driving efficiency & effectiveness along the funnel.

In Q4 2024, Publicis Production won the global Food Transformation business for PepsiCo. We are currently working as a production entity within the full Publicis Network servicingPepsiCo and partnering with multiple other agencies within our Groupe to bring thispartnership to life.

Our remit includes multiple culinary brands for PepsiCo across several market regions.

We create cut-through social content for PepsiCo Foods. Currently, we are producing thissocial first and online content from our Culinary Content Shoot Hubs. These hubs areconnected within the full Publicis ecosystem and partner seamlessly with the rest of the agencies to delivergreat qualitycontent, at speed.

As a Production Manager within the PepsiCo team at Publicis Groupe, you will play anintegral role in supporting the creative and production teams to ensure all elements ofourcampaigns and HUB productions are executed smoothly and efficiently.

You will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of the production process, facilitating communication between departments, and ensuring that projects are delivered on time, with superb quality and within agreed budgets (agreed time mapping of our resources).

This position requiresvery strongorganizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability tomanage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced production environment.

Responsibilities

• Work hand in hand with the Production Lead to define,communicateandenforce production standards and deliver on theobjectives.

• Define asset production criteria for social content production.

• Ensure that the assigned projects are produced to a high creative standard, deliveredon time and within the agreed scope of work.

• Arrange briefings with Hub production teams, assign lead operators, conduct kick-off meetings, schedule client reviews, distribute feedback, trackcostsand manageproject progress.

• Attend and take notes during all briefings/reviews and circulate info to shootproducers/production ops leads and post producers. Account Management wherenecessary.

• Be responsible forchecking that all material has been reviewed and aligned tofeedback and creative execution ahead of sharing out with clients for review.

• Play an active role in defining problems, recommendingsolutionsandestablishingresourceful conclusions.

• Negotiate rates withadditionalpartners in the group and liaise with ops team tocoordinate.

• Check that all work is reconciled correctly and comes in within the agreedbudget.

• Approve all external costs with the client lead.

• Send regular updates to the client and wider teams on progress and any changestotimings.

• Continually defines ways to increase client satisfaction and deepen clientrelationships.

• Ensure the overall Production process runs seamlessly with the ProductionHUBs.

Qualifications

• Proven experienceworkingas a Producer/Project Managerin a Client Facing Productioncapacity.

• Knowledge of creating content for social platforms is essential.

• Prioritisation, timemanagementand attention to detail.

• Highly organised, proactive andpossessexcellent communication skills.

• Approachable, excellent interpersonal skills, detail oriented, responsive, problemsolver and likes a challenge!

• Cool under fire, a production evangelist with an enterprising spirit.

• Confident managing both clients and agencies.

• Politically astute. Able to successfully navigate and resolve issues amicably.

• Experience of working on a global brandwould beadvantageous.

• Ability to work in an agile way, flexing styles to accommodate various stakeholdersacross the PepsiCo & Publicis Groupe network.

• Someone who hunts for opportunities to improve how we work as improve whatwedeliver.

• Commercially aware.

Additional Information

Diversity and inclusion is a core part of who we are at Publicis Production. We're committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group - whatever their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion doesn't just fuel our creativity and innovation, it brings us closer to our people and audiences. We will continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered and more importantly comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process. If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.