Senior Manager, Retails Display and POSM

Job Overview:
The Senior Production Manager is responsible for managing production processes, ensuring high-quality outputs, and collaborating with clients and vendors to meet project requirements. This includes overseeing timelines, cost management, and stakeholder communication, with a focus on driving production excellence and providing optimal client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate collaboration between clients and vendors, guiding discussions on upcoming projects to ensure timely and full delivery.
• Provide expert advice on the structural design of displays, considering materials, safety, and functionality, and suggest alternative options that benefit cost, quality, or timelines.
• Maintain constant communication with your line manager and broader team to explore synergies and opportunities for greater collaboration.
• Tailor your communications to effectively obtain feedback and ensure project milestones are met.
• Manage low to medium-complexity briefs, questioning them when necessary to ensure clarity and effective delivery.
• Deliver regular campaign updates, ensuring proactive communication of next steps to the Senior Production Manager.
• Develop and manage campaign plans, confidently handling client expectations throughout the production process.
• Track suppliers’ progress through various production stages to ensure everything is under control and on schedule.
• Engage in supplier conversations to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes, focusing on cost savings, quality, and value engineering.
• Ensure accurate data entry into the IWW system to allow timely billing processes.
• Maintain accurate activity reports, delivering value to clients based on their reporting needs.
• Provide support to the Client Services team, ensuring thorough completion of specifications and adherence to workflows.
• Emphasize the importance of data quality and its impact on business, following compliance processes for data accuracy.
• Work with key stakeholders to identify areas of improvement, actively addressing issues related to savings or performance

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in production management of advertising marketing materials, ideally within an FMCG setting or supporting FMCG clients.
• Strong communication skills in English are beneficial.
• Passion for sustainability and circular business models is a plus.
• Ability to navigate complex production challenges, utilizing both problem-solving and technology-oriented approaches.

Desired Mindset:

• Solution-oriented mindset with a focus on resolving challenges and improving processes.
• Attention to detail, ensuring every step of production meets quality standards.
• High energy and a positive ‘can-do’ attitude, managing projects with a calm and collaborative approach.
• Curiosity for continuous improvement and learning across internal operations.
• Accountability and professionalism in managing workload and collaborating with the team to meet project need