Production Manager / Associate

Job Description

Your New Role

The Production Manager/Associate is an individual contributor role, who will be coordinating, organizing and supporting significant production-related efforts for the network. You will be the production point of contact in Asia-Pacific, and will create, handle and manage the production schedules, rosters, logistics and budgets for Newsgathering and Features departments in Asia-Pacific. You will be expected to work with various stakeholders from across CNN's global network.

Your Role Accountabilities
• Build, coordinate and manage rosters for Newsgathering and the News Desk staff which includes editorial, photojournalists and producers.
• Anticipate staffing needs and issues and provide solutions to the Directors of Coverage and Senior Planning Editor.
• Apply solid editorial knowledge (such as upcoming news events, breaking news, general news agenda) to plan the rosters and shifts for Newsgathering and the News Desk.
• Organize the logistical arrangements for Newsgathering, the News Desk, Features and other departments of CNN when they travel Asia-Pacific.
• Assist the network's editorial representative for all production related projects.
• Act as the ''go to'' expert on all production and administration related matters for internal CNN staff, intra-company departments, third party contacts.
• Provide administrative and logistical support including visas, filming permissions, travel and accommodations for Newsgathering, Features and Digital teams for planned and breaking news assignments across Asia-Pacific.
• Coordinate all production and administration related matters including onboarding and training for Newsgathering the News Desk, bureaus and other teams.
• Maintain knowledge of production costs, identify production efficiencies, and contribute to cost analysis processes.
• Prepare budgets for newsgathering and features assignments.
• Work closely with Business Operations to manage production costs.
• Manages freelancers for the Newsgathering and the News Desk, including sourcing, contract management, on-boarding and processing invoices.

Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 3 to 5 years of work experience in an international news environment.
• Previous work experience in a programming or production-related operation.
• Excellent command of spoken and written English is essential, k nowledge of Asian languages a plus.
• Detail-minded, organized, proactive and must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• People person - excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Be prepared to work across multiple time zones and out of hours to collaborate with teams in London and Atlanta. Available to work at weekends if and when necessary.

How We Get Things Done…

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The Legal Bits…

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