Producer

Job Overview

As a Producer at Colle McVoy, you will be responsible for working on select agency and client marketing projects by collaborating with cross-discipline teams that consist of internal teams, external partners, and clients. Projects encompass advertising and marketing efforts with a clear beginning and end that result in deliverables including branded print collateral, digital banner ads, broadcast video, social media video and still assets, radio ads, websites and landing pages, and branded events.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Creative, Account, Strategy, and Business Affairs throughout the course of the project, contributing to both strategic and creative discussions
• Create project timelines with deadlines and phases based on deliverables; proactively documenting and tracking projects to ensure work stays on schedule
• Communicate consistent project status updates across department teams for weekly and/or daily internal and client status meetings
• Schedule and facilitate team meetings and communicate next steps to the team, while staying up-to-date on clients' priorities and being responsive to multiple client and agency projects simultaneously
• Proactively identify and navigate any problems that may arise and provide resolutions
• Create accurate estimates for agency fee and out-of-pocket costs for projects; reviewing scopes of work for projects to ensure they are a 1-to-1 with the estimate; following the estimating and scoping process to ensure accurate scopes and estimates are achieved in partnership with a Senior Project Manager and Executive Producer and SVP Integrated Production
• Forecast resources for day-to-day projects and partner with your Senior Project Manager and/or resource management director to secure resources for the lifecycle of client and agency projects by maintaining accurate timelines within Workfront
• Identify, bid, and negotiate with third-party vendors and suppliers
• Evaluate and manage third-party vendor work to guarantee the overall quality of work and ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget
• Monitor and flag budget scope creep; keeping projects on pace from a project milestone perspective and flagging in real-time when milestones are at risk of being missed
• Build relationships with agency discipline leads including Account, Strategy, Media, Creative, Studio, Production, and Finance for support of projects; working within the agency workflow process, knowing when to bring in the right people and resources to get the project completed
• Become a trusted partner to Creative by helping to elevate the work, while staying within the realities of schedule and budget
• Be capable and comfortable presenting to and interacting with clients throughout the life cycle of a project
• Integrate emerging AI technologies into daily workflows to support innovation, automation, and operational excellence

Required Skills

• One year experience in: Scope of Work writing
• Building accurate estimates to inform scope of work
• Managing to budgets and scopes
• Developing and owning project timelines
• Integrate emerging AI technologies into daily workflows to support innovation, automation, and operational excellence

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as an associate producer, producer, or related project management experience in a creative agency environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Remote work allowed within the U.S.
• Quarterly travel to MN corporate office as needed for business
• Physical Requirements: Prolonged periods of time sitting at a desk and working on a computer Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at a time