Production Operations Resource Supervisor

Job Description

The Production Resource Supervisor is responsible for booking and scheduling of the freelance crews and facility resources for the live productions based out of our West London studio facility.

You will be responsible for the crewing of the live events, ensuring the production crews are prepped, prepared for their live broadcasts. As one of the key communicators within the department you are responsible for ensuring that all relevant contributors have the latest information, and everyone is fully informed on the day's live events

This role will require weekend and evening work, but predominantly standard office hours will apply. Flexibility is key and from time to time there may be a requirement to work from different site within the WBD portfolio.

Your Accountabilities...
• Book, roster and schedule freelance crews and production resources.
• Assist production managers with finding required crew ensuring the right person is hired for the role.
• Manage Resource Coordinators' daily duties, ensuring constant high standard of work and efficient and effective time management.
• Create supportive documentation for clients, production teams regarding crew availability.
• Liaise with clients, third party production companies and internal production teams to ensure the highest level of support is supplied from booking through to live delivery
• Support clients' requirements during the production process, ensuring resources and editorial aspirations are achievable.
• Work alongside Engineering, Technical and Audio Supervisors to ensure that live events set up and testing requirements are covered.
• Create, review and provide monthly budgeting feedback on production spend.
• Track freelancers' expenses and report actuals monthly to the Production Operations Manager and production clients
• Maintain a healthy and happy pool of freelancers.
• Contribute to the development of training plans to deliver staff and freelancer training requirements as necessary
• Identify key development opportunities for improved workflows, and enhanced reporting.
• Promote sharing of best practice and process change opportunities to support an efficient and effective department.
• Actively ensure compliance with all Health and Safety policies
• Other duties as required

Requirements...
• Ability to multitask, working on multiple productions at any one time
• Experience of managing crewing for both studio and OB sporting shows
• Demonstrable working knowledge of end-to-end production procedures for live and pre-recorded sporting shows
• Experience of producing production documentation and communicating this clearly to a wide array of stakeholders
• Working knowledge of scheduling systems,payments systems.
• Understanding of compliance rules around working time directive, rostering and shift working patterns
• Understanding of IR35
• Has experience raising PO's, tracking Invoices, budget maintenance
• Strong organisational and planning skills, able to manage conflicting demands to meet deadlines
• Ability to use own initiative with confidence, using judgment to escalate where necessary and can communicate their requirements and needs across the wider business
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Pro-active in troubleshooting, problem solving and avoidance of issues

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb2x8o-3-137-169-218-42 in your application.