Assistant Manager-Production Management

Overall Purpose of the Role:-
With the Company strategy of Producing Original Content as part of the Content slate, the need for a domain expert with requisite experience in Production and market knowledge of available resourses is required to provide Operational support to the front line functions. Support required involves commercial and first line contractual negotiations, empanelment of Production partners through the Compliance due diligence procedure, Process compliance documentation and administration, Induction of Production Partners to the shoot compliance framework, Production activity tracking, managing of censor certification process, and managing all production operations including Production Insurances, Shoot site visits, Title registration and Management of the Document Management system.
This position requires effective coordination, coercive action and communication skills to push our internal/external stakeholders and vendors, to ensure that our tight telecast deadlines are met.
This contribution of the Assistant Manager/Manager in Production Management will provide continual back-end coordinated action & logistical support to our front line colleagues to focus on their specific business objectives, whilst they manage the tedious production operations in the back-ground to enable processes to move to its next operational step to meet the varied on-air deadlines as scheduled for telecast across our channels
ResponsibilitiesAreas of Responsibility:-
The Assistant Manager/Manager, Production Management is the central point and owner of all operational activities & processes ranging from production, engaging freelance resources and any other resources required in a Production, building talent banks, entering into mandated commercial & contractual negotiations, obtaining censor certifications, and such operational activities required to support Programming, Content Production AFP and Animation Development deadlines.
External and Internal Stakeholders:-
- Internal Stakeholders: Programming, Content Production, Branded Content (AFP) & Animation Development
- External Stakeholders: All types of Vendors – Production Houses (Live Action & Animation) Talent, Contractors, Hired Facilities & Resources etc.
Basic QualificationsExperience Required: Minimum seven (7) years’ work experience in production operations activity which should include;

• Ability to manage and influence coercive action amongst stakeholders to enable processes and deadlines with astute communication & inter-personal skills
• Ability to manage commercial & contractual negotiations, with freelance resources whether external technicians, talent or studios
• Ability to prepare production working budgets and seeking of internal approvals as per process
• Managing shoot logistics - costumes, props, locations, casting, F&B, transport etc.
• Ability to devise, prepare & manage all production operations reports & planning trackers

Domain knowledge of shoot activity to be implemented in shoot visits for each project to ensure Disney mandates, processes and timelines are maintained for each project.
Additional InformationSkills Required:-

• Should be proficient in pre-production, shoot & post-production processes
• Should have strong working knowledge of Excel
• Knowledge of production budgeting
• Good verbal & written communication
• Good inter-personal skills to effectively interact & coordinate with all internal/external stakeholders
• Oriented towards technology to use any application required for tracking or reporting activity.

Diligent, organized, high-integrity, sincere and hard-working