Kim Cronce

Kimberly Cronce

Senior Producer

Los Angeles, CA
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2014 Jul - Present
Sr. Producer
Nordstrom / Culver City, CA
  • Produce and manage all editorial shoots for Nordstrom Rack and Hautelook with budgets from $45kG$125k per shoot
  • Manage crews of 25G30 people and book all talent for shoots based on direction from the creative team
  • Responsible for the Nordstrom Rack and HauteLook shoot budgets ($3M/year), HauteLook’s catalog studio budget ($12G$15M/year), freelance photography budget ($1.5M/year) and the annual model budget ($6M/year)
  • Manage Associate Producers, Studio Coordinators, Talent Producers and Associate Talent Producers
  • Manage 24 daily catalogue studios, book all freelancers and oversee all scheduling to ensure studio is hitting its monthly and yearly numbers
  • Set studio policies and manage teams to ensure all studio goals are met
  • Head of all studio production and the main point person for all cross functional teams
2013 May - 2014 Jul
Producer
Nordstrom / Los Angeles, CA
  • Produced all location shoots for HauteLook
  • Responsible for the daily final RTW, Men’s and Product schedule for bothHauteLook and Nordstrom Rack
  • Managed daily work assignments for studio teams
  • Established need for freelance support and maintain running pool of freelancetalent (photographers, digital techs, stylists and hair & makeup freelancers)
  • Handled all vendor contracts, negotiations and studio equipment purchases(and rentals)
  • Managed the logistics of day-to day photography within the photo studio
  • Kept an open dialog with creative team ensuring needs are being met
  • Worked as first line of support for cross-functional teams (i.e. samples, brandassociates, production, digital imaging and copy)
  • Anticipated the operational needs of others with a sense of urgency

Education

2010 - 2011
Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
AA Product Development / Product Development
1998 - 2002
University of South CarolinaColumbia
BA Journalism and Mass Communications / Journalism , Public Relations, Mass Communications