Social Manager, Integrated Marketing
Netflix
Los Angeles, CA
We collaborate with groundbreaking directors, creative agencies and visionary brands, who trust us to bring their ideas to life. We value the two-way nature of these partnerships, understanding that our clients give us opportunities to improve our craft and astound their audiences.
Though we are renowned for our unrivalled creative expertise, we are just as inventive with our workflow solutions and pride ourselves on our impeccable account management and client service.
Twenty-plus years of innovation has established The Mill as a recognized global brand for creating seamless visual effects, but we are also leaders in design, animation, live action content direction, VFX brand accounts, versioning and global adaptations, digital content creation and distribution. Our ability to package multiple services allows us to deliver both schedule and budget efficiencies and to create with the multi-platform world in mind. This helps clients create great looking content for any screen.
Our reputation is built on our people. We find, train and nurture the most talented creative, technical and production teams in the industry and our scale enables us to work individually, in teams or as an international network via our bases in London, New York, Los Angeles & Chicago.
This position oversees creative resources for Compositing, Telecine, Editorial and Outsourcing. Excellent communication skill is required as the Creative Resources Manager is responsible for mentoring their team and fostering strong relationships with artists, production, and operational departments.
The Creative Resources Manager should also have an excellent understanding of The Mill's work and creative history, strong organizational, tracking and planning skills and a commitment to providing our clients an unrivalled experience.
Responsibilities
• Work closely with CG, Design and Digital to ensure that Creative Resources are acting as a single cohesive unit.
• Engage in early bidding and planning with producers to identify talent needs, scheduling and strategies.
• Work with artists, leads, producers and senior schedulers to ensure jobs are on track and efficient whilst continuously measuring bid resources against budgets.
• Demonstrate an understanding of capacity, internal resources as well as an ability to flag challenges and opportunities.
• Guarantee excellent client service from all members of the team to maximize repeat business.
• Manage Outsourcing bids and relationships and maintain an accurate Freelance & Rental forecast.
• Ensure Freelance Artists are utilized appropriately – on the right projects, at the right price, with attention paid to controlling cost whilst maintaining quality.
• Provide support for Creative Operators by monitoring working hours, artist satisfaction and managing holiday requests and DOILs.
• Pro-active liaison with HODs and Engineering department to ensure technology and resources are being used to their full potential.
• Pro-active Liaison with HR on talent recruitment, freelance payroll, etc.
• Represent Creative Resources in any high level conversations with Production.
• Schedule large jobs that require intricate planning or big picture foresight. Work with producers and schedulers to ensure the right talent is on the right job.
• Develop Creative Resources protocol and best practices.
Qualifications
• 3 - 5 years creative resources management experience
• Production and/or agency experience preferred
• Excellent project planning and scoping skills
• Ability to manage, develop and retain talent
• Capacity to manage a busy workload with high productivity
• Experience working with and using scheduling software
• Responsive and flexible to ever changing needs and environment
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gm9q63-54-225-35-224-42 in your application.
Technicolor is home to the world's premiere portfolio of visual effects brands, services, and creative innovations. With locations that span the globe, and service offerings tailored to the specific creative and storytelling needs of each project, we power premium content. Our diverse family of VFX brands includes: MPC, The Mill, MR. X, Mikros MPC Advertising, and Technicolor VFX. Each studio has their own unique approach to help storytellers create out of this world experiences.