Senior Production Manager Job Description
Senior production manager
provides cost-effective manufacturing solutions for all required book projects, including sourcing suppliers and print estimating from supplier & scales.
Senior Production Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Research and incorporate new technologies for client campaigns, delivering them on time and under budget
Lead the casting for UO Women’s and Men’s imagery, continually sourcing highly relevant new faces and young up-and-coming talent in addition to top-level established models that best represent the brand
Assist in all aspects of regularly scheduled castings to scout models, and manage through multiple rounds of approvals
Maintain active relationships with external photo and modeling agencies, photographers, and talent
Negotiate talent useage and rates that range in scope from new faces to top-tier models, and actively pursue contracts and exclusivity clauses on behalf of UO
Manage photo shoot production and budgeting for the Urban Outfitters’ editorial, e-commerce and special photography projects
Continually identify emerging photographers and hair/makeup artists with an intuitive understanding of the Urban brand and the Urban customer
Guide on-set production team in the remote management of all pre-production, scouting, and on-set operations
Manage the UO Photo Shoot Calendar and scheduling of over 10 editorial and 40 e-commerce shooting days per month, and ensure all necessary assets are delivered in a timely manner
Determine yearly budgets and manage Production Assistants in handling billing for all shoots
Senior Production Manager Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Senior Production Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, APICS, RFQ, ISO, 9001, CPM, PMP, III, ASNDT, CPIM
Education for Senior Production Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior production manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Engineering, Education, Business, Management, Technical, Manufacturing, Computer Science, Marketing, Performance, Industrial Engineering
Skills for Senior Production Manager
Desired skills for senior production manager include:
Manufacturing limitations
Supplier facilities
Supplier facilities and schedule availability
Campaigns
Schedule availability to derive cost efficiencies for projects
4-color print and special print techniques
Print manufacturing types and channels
Paper manufacturing
Embossing
Types and distribution channels
Desired experience for senior production manager includes:
Review, together with Art Directors and Creative Director, seasonal creative concepts and suggest potential models, locations and photographers that reflect the seasonal direction
Create and maintain relationships with outside production companies for shooting remotely and overseas
Develop presentation materials for executive approvals and archival databases of photographers, models, talent and locations
Ability to work within the creative team and adapt to evolving ideas of a rapidly developing brand
Maintain and manage budget goals for all editorial shoots
An understanding of the trends and taste of the Urban Outfitters customer
Senior Production Manager Examples
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Senior Production Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior production manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior production manager
- Partner with Operations team to meet on time calendar deliverables to maintain integrity of system, issuing of Purchase Orders, and updating Purchase Orders
- Work with product development team to confirm all prices are final in the cost log
- Follow calendar and work with production managers and associates to create PIR’s
- On schedule buy dates- work with the Global Demand Team on GFE+sku commit handoff and reconcile vendors match the cost log before passing buy to the offices and vendors
- Manage Purchase Order issuance calendar
- Follow up on outstanding issues to manage a timely and accurate process
- Validate completed Purchase Orders to ensure accuracy
- Run the week WIP meeting to review outstanding styles and strategize delivery maintenance
- Work with production managers and associates to troubleshoot delivery issues
- Lead the monthly Hong Kong conference call
Qualifications for senior production manager
- Embody our culture through behavior and interactions daily
- Willing to invite and promote constructive feedback
- Ability to travel worldwide a must
- Strong numeracy, along with a good creative eye
- Conduct weekly Ops team meeting
- Participate in the creation of the year-end statistics book
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Our growing company is looking for a senior production manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior production manager
- Facilitate training in areas of large scale production management through mentoring and guidance for other staff members
- Drive continuous improvements based on benchmarking best practice, customer listening
- Accountable for clear and frequent status communication across and upwards within the organization
- Support the planning and execution of key T&M projects including
- Initiate and implement improvements in the repair operation processes to improve productivity and repair quality
- Establish, develop, and implement goals, objectives, and procedures for product engineering team
- Develop employees by providing needed resources, career development opportunities, and constructive feedback
- Input into prioritisation of change requests / enhancements
- Provide information and assessment to ITVP Finance Director and ITVP VP Finance for business sign-off of enhancements and key project milestones
- Chair regular systems enhancement meetings & input into prioritisation of change requests / enhancements, ensuring business justification for upgrades and fixes are adequately documented
Qualifications for senior production manager
- Minimum 8 years experience in a similar position within a dairy or food environment
- Knowledge of implementation of international quality standards desirable
- Experience in the production of cheese, fats and cultured products preferred
- Experience with Automated Process Control
- Qualification in dairy technology or related discipline
- 7+ years’ experience in a manufacturing & sourcing environment
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Our growing company is looking for a senior production manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior production manager
- Analyze and document current state and propose alternatives to facilitate strategic redesign and implementation around the FRY-14 redesign
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholders including GT&0 , multiple LOBs, Regulatory Reporting, and upstream and downstream ADSs for project delivery
- Plan, organize and monitor project performance with a focus on meeting key data remediation deadlines
- Ensure a clear understanding of changes to FRY-14 reporting and lead coordination of changes to upstream and downstream systems to meet the new FRB requirements
- Manage inventory of issues aligned to FRY-14, ensure prioritization of issues and complete business case justification for high priority issues
- Develop roadmaps and oversee delivery in order to meet Global Banking’s strategic FRY-14 program objectives while offering solutions to mitigate risk, including a prioritization roadmap for Peaks and upstream changes
- Coordinate FRY-14 data remediation efforts with Peaks releases and strive to capture all needed FRY-14 data in Peaks to minimize tactical solutions
- Support annual budgeting process, lead budget planning for work related to FRY-14 issue remediation
- Oversee the root cause analysis processes for data gap remediation for FRY-14 and drive remediation of data quality issues in upstream ADSs and in Peaks, the ADS for Wholesale Credit Data
- Ensure all work necessary to evidence closure of issues and incidents is complete and accurate
Qualifications for senior production manager
- 5 - 8 years’ experience in footwear pre-production and product development
- This role requires exceptional organisational ability
- Up-to-date knowledge of the European broadcasting environment
- Recent experience in the broadcast delivery of major international events
- Ability to manage and motivate personnel of all levels, both staff and freelancers, to work as a cohesive team
- Must command confidence in acting on own initiative at this senior level
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior production manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior production manager
- Take responsibility for internal reporting and critical path management
- Accurately analyse stock and sales results to allow a proactive approach to stock reporting and strategic demand forecasting
- Plan and deliver a more automated, stabilized system & processes
- Build, develop and maintain excellent relationships with the various agencies and suppliers who support NBrown creative marketing, print and production
- Ensure all quality control and best standards with all suppliers
- Build a team with clear purpose to deliver world-class work and world-class teams
- Senior PM and supervisor position responsible for leading a production team in cost, schedule performance of a new production program
- Involves the pre-production transition to a rate-deliverable aircraft product
- Develop and coordinates program plans or delivery methods, which serve multiple customers
- Participates with technical staff and/or Division/Group executive management to develop and implement current, annual, and long-term technical, schedule, quality, business, and financial objectives for the programs
Qualifications for senior production manager
- Highly independent and possess excellent leadership capabilities
- Minimum of four (4) years of supply chain Planning experience is required, with strong focus on supply chain planning processes and systems
- Advanced Planning Systems experience such as JDE/SAP technology is required
- Advanced Excel / Access models experience is required
- Project management experience with a track record of success is required
- Experience in executing significant process improvement initiatives within Supply Chain functions is preferred
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Our company is looking for a senior production manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior production manager
- Develops vendor matrix & risk management strategies in coordination with Director to determine the production allocation
- Strategize in coordination with Director to determine the production allocation
- Manages all phases of production, from finalizing costing through on time delivery
- Approves all bulk fabric and trim commitments
- Manages and communicates seasonal time and actions calendars – including off season calendar
- Handles high level reporting and projects as assigned
- Lead the day-to-day team performance and results, identifying and removing any barriers to the success of the production and logistics team
- Identify and implement work process changes, knowledge transfer requirements, cGMP regulatory compliance and methods to enable transitions required to support the surfactants unit
- Promote and role model responsible risk taking, interpersonal development, customer support, and continuous improvement cultures.Provide resources for implementation of continuous improvement tools and role model LEAN behaviors
- Ensure the creation of long and short term budgets, objectives, and plans for the order fulfillment, product/process development and services at the site
Qualifications for senior production manager
- Experience in either outsource or shared service environments
- Experience working with financial processes and improving controls
- Proven experience at a production company preferred
- Experience of having worked in a multinational organization with ability to influence operational and –non finance teams during a period change
- Commercially aware and grounded but with the ability to be “hands-on” when required
- Significant experience within a multinational company at Senior manager level highly desirable