Creative Production Lead at Horizontal Talent in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Job Description:

Key Accountabilities
• Serve as an in-house content production expert and consultant to guide Brand Experience teams through the creative production process in support of the company's North American cereal brands.
• Oversee a broad range of capabilities requiring high-level strategy that's platform/deliverable agnostic while serving as point of escalation to solve problems unique to the work creative production supports.
• Remove blockers, educate brand teams, influence production partner selection and help find the most efficient path between creative brief and final delivery/distribution - note the primary focus of the work is on video-related productions and their associated digital extensions.
• Manage the end-to-end production workflow across a multitude of large projects happening simultaneously with agency and production partners.
• Monitor creative production executions to ensure the team has the proper level of support to deliver on time, on budget and on creative brief.
• Deliver regular status reports and analysis of spending on current projects.
• Support the roll out of the company's creative production workflow tool (CoLab).

Skills/Experience
• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Communications, Marketing, Advertising or Film
• 6-8+ years of relevant experience
• Familiarity with the creative production process, including bidding, talent negotiation/payments, and content/creative asset trafficking
• Experience with consumer brands, large scale advertising campaigns, and the complexities of developing and executing brand campaigns
• Strong creative skills, passion for greatness in brand communications. Solutions driven and collaborative.
• Exceptional project management, budgeting, organization and communication skills