Global Localization Producer
Description
- Manage the creative development workload start to finish
- WW & Geo briefings
- Milestones and deadlines
- Presentations
- Internal reviews
- Facilitate hand-offs
- Understand the production workflow and how to deliver quality creative work.
- Consolidate information from each function and project, to estimate quarterly workload, in order to identify incremental resource requirements.
- Renew, prioritize and execute localization requests.
- Collaborate with Geos to resolve questions or discrepancies related to terminology, brand message consistency and workflow.
- Build and optimize systematic management of projects through development of tools, leveraging the existing tools to reflect the latest information.
- Analyze requirements and supporting reference material; clearly communicate same to Geos.
- Train Brand Producers, Functional Producers, and Creative teams to use the Headlines tool for Sustain, Black and Red workshops.
- Strategic coordination, implementation, and evaluation of the priorities set by Brand Managers, Functional Producers, Production and the Localization team.
- Receive and own latest status of each Functional Producer’s and Brand Manager’s projects, organize and manage weekly Project Management status and calls.
Job Summary
- The point person and liaison between functional and leads to keep localization projects on track and ensure teams are aware of upcoming priorities.
- Responsibilities include developing internal tracking systems, creating schedules, tracking project status, and routing work for review/approval.
- Works closely with WW Functional Producers, Brand Producers, and the Creative Team as well as the Geo Project Management team.
- Expert in managing global efforts across all media including print, interactive, retail and channel.
Key Qualifications
- 5-7 years of Project Management experience
- Someone who truly understand the meaning of teamwork. This is an opportunity to work miracles and innovating to the greatest extent possible.
- Ability to organize information quickly and at a high level.
- Demonstrate ability to learn quickly.
- Strong written, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Flexibility in accommodating rapid change.
- Ability to be proactive and problem solve.
- Comfortable leading large multi-functional meetings.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Must be able to multi-task, with proven effectiveness working under pressure.
- Superior project management skills.
- Experience developing tools and systems to support creative project workflow.
- Understand and appreciate the creative development and production process.
Responsibilities
- Align teams on key project milestones.
- Look ahead, forecast milestones, and negotiate conflicts with internal teams.
- Keep Loc CDs on task and focused with daily check-ins.
- Scope headlines in Planet for all workshops and sustain projects.
- Moderate daily workshop check-ins between WW Project Managers/Associate Producers and Geo Project Managers.
- Rethink, reevaluate and reimplement processes based on workshop hindsight feedback.
- Train new hires and currently employees on the Headline process as well as Planet updates, and process updates.
- Archive projects in the headline tool upon completion.
- Add WW team members to Planet as needed.
*Hours may fluctuate based on project needs.
