Senior CGI Producer

Marks is a global brand design and experience agency, uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. Marks is a part of SGS & Co, a brand impact group that enables its household name clients to get there first - empowering acceleration on a global scale. From vision-building to detailed execution, we enable brands to move faster and shift impact.

The Role

We are looking for a proactive, process-led Senior Producer to join our Content Studio team. A proactive problem solver with excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrable experience of working efficiently and autonomously in a CGI-led production environment. A team player capable of leading in-house, offshore and partner Client Service teams, Art Directors, Motion Graphics Designers, CGI Artists and Retouchers in the production of beautiful brand assets. Always with an eye for quality, keeping track of budget, scope and schedule is your happy place – optimising processes to solve a problem before it arises.

Key Responsibilities

• Budgeting, estimating, scheduling, and managing production across several concurrent brands and projects.
• Managing all aspects of day-to-day production in a CGI-led studio environment.
• Proactively communicating and managing expectation with clients & client service teams about all aspects of production and project delivery.
• Identifying and clearly communicating project resource requirements in a consistent, accurate and timely manner.
• Working with Resource Managers and Producers in other global studio locations to proactively solve capacity challenges before they become a problem.
• Forecasting, requesting, booking, and on-boarding freelance resource, when necessary.
• Negotiating costings with external providers, ensuring their costs align to budgets and expectation.
• All aspects of production documentation management, including estimates, PO’s, NDA’s, MSA’s etc.
• Management of multiple third-party supplier relationships.
• Line management of 1-2 producers.

Skills and Abilities

• +5 years of experience working in the 3D space ideally producing brand and packaging content.
• Ability to craft and review SOWs with experience in accurately identifying project risks.
• Ability to quickly and effectively draft indicative project budgets in advance of concept approval.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to direct a team while promoting a positive morale in a fast-paced, delivery-driven environment.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite plus project management tools such as Shotgrid, Jira, Trello etc.
• Having a point of view on the tools required by teams to ensure consistency in best practice for production management – what to use when, and why.
• Ability to manage, coach and lead teams of production artists and direct reports.
• Ability to outline and develop best practices and processes – a leader, not a follower.

Nice to have’s…

• Experience of pre/post-production & shooting of video and photo content.
• Background working in brand or packaging centric creative agencies.
• Experience working in globally connected, creative production studios.
• Portfolio of work with CPG or Retail brands.
• Interest or experience in the implementation of project management tools and systems.
• Extensive black-book of talented industry contracts in CGI, VFX and film production.