Production Executive/Production Manager
Remuneration: | negotiable cost-to-company |
Benefits: | Pension Fund |
Location: | Durban, Riverhorse Valley |
Education level: | Matric |
Job level: | Mid/Senior |
Own transport required: | Yes |
Travel requirement: | Occasional |
Type: | Permanent |
Reference: | #PROD2025 |
Company: | Avatar.DBN |
Production duties:- Brief suppliers on printing specs, grammage of paper, and quantities, request three different printers to get competitive costings.
- Brief promotional suppliers on promotional items
- Source suppliers when a specific design is presented to manufacture.
- Raise cost estimates on Chase on all briefs submitted by client service department.
- Raise a budget estimates when necessary for a big campaign for clients on Chase
- Raise Purchase orders against Cost estimates and mail to suppliers.
- Send the Purchase order with repro artwork to suppliers.
- Circulate printers proofs to relevant creative for approval and mail them or arrange collection to the supplier in time to proceed with the print
- Check on printing or outwork jobs to ensure that delivery timings are kept.
- Ensure that production samples are received from printers on all jobs.
- Once the supplier invoice comes in or prints the order and ensure that the printer invoiced the correct amount
- Deliver finished products to client or co-ordinate this process.
- Update production job status regarding delivery and send to Client service and Finance team.
- Assist with filling out tender documents and binding.
- Follow up with suppliers on the invoice for the month to ensure finance get all invoice to be captured for the month.
- Pull recon report from Chase on paid media jobs every 3 months when required.
- Co-Ordinate photoshoots, book studio or location, photographer, videographer, make-up artist, stylist, models etc.
- Arrange catering for photoshoots work within specific budgets.
- Flight and accommodation bookings for models / shoot crew.
- Source and book Voice over artists with recording studio for radio adverts
- Answer switchboard, shared duty
- Arrange courier bookings for production / promotional items to clients, ensure goods are securely packed for delivery.
- ADHOC
- Must be able to work on CHASE
- Have a minimum of three years of advertising agency experience
- Must have drivers licence and own vehicle
Requirements:- Ability to understand and manage people
- Ability to utilise IT technologies to produce outputs
- Communication and persuasion skills:
- Ability to analyse and resolve problems
- Ability to lead by example
- Quality of work
- Integrity
- Stress tolerance
- Passion for the work
- Flexibility/adaptability
- Initiative
- Innovation
- Commitment (willingness to participate in the total process)
- Team player
- Diplomacy
- Maintain equilibrium and positivity on a consistent basis.
- Excellent attention to detail and high standards of quality control
- Ability to multitask and prioritise activities effectively.
- Working in high-pressure environments.
- Strong all round production planning from concept to post-production.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills across all levels from clients and suppliers to co-workers.
- Most of all - a pleasant working attitude as positivity is contagious and any task no matter how complex can be resolved in a great working environment.
Company Description
Advertising Agency
Posted on 16 Sep 12:10, Closing date 15 Nov