Production Manager Job in Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Product Imaging builds the worlds best online shopping experience through photography, video, graphic design, and usability design enabling millions of customers to make more informed purchasing decisions. Imaging at Amazon is a large and fast-growing network of teams located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, focusing on fashion and product photography, photo retouching, graphic design, video and CGI production, automated image acquisition, and image support services. We are continually innovating and setting new industry standards for showcasing 10s of millions of products across multiple global marketplaces. We are obsessed with innovating on behalf of our customers, and continually push beyond the boundaries of traditional e-commerce photography and videography.

Amazon is currently looking for "Production Manager" who will exhibit expert knowledge of industry standard practices in multiple categories of production, Creates regional standard processes that are in line with global initiatives, Operates with significant autonomy, Influences across functions, May manage teams, Ambassador for Production across business platforms. . This role will include the development of more efficient systems, reducing internal costs and improving and implementing new programs.

Responsibilities include:

Talent Booking
Develops the talent management and booking strategy across studios
Partners with studios globally to standardize talent booking processes and tools
Ensure freelance talent rating process is adhere to and devises measure of quality and creative efforts
Interprets creative direction to ensure the appropriate talent is booked and guides rate conversation budget planning
Manages team execution of creative direction set by creative leadership and ensures the quality bar on talent is being met
Oversees budget and financial reporting for the Production function across multiple studios
Partners to define and implement regional legal and finance policies for talent bookings
Strong negotiation skills
Strong understanding of legal contracts and usage to advise legal teams on industry standards
Vendor and Database Management
Creates and maintains ongoing relationships with external vendor leads and legal teams and acts as primary point of contact for contract terms and rate negotiations
Participates in the development of contract terms with external parties and drives term execution
Responsible for ensure ongoing legal compliance with external vendors on service agreements
Responsible for tracking current status of legal agreements and communicating to larger group
Maintains database of relevant Production documents and ensure group information is up to date and easily accessible to partners
Ensure policies, procedures and best practices are documented and maintained

Process Improvement
Identifies appropriate metric to develop departmental reports to provide visibility to capture opportunities and threats
Strategically collaborates with business partners to ensure studio will meet future talent demands
Evaluates production policies, procedures, and budgets and identifies opportunities for standardizing where possible
Develops strategy for on-going competitive research and analysis
Lead deep dive efforts and connects to larger business initiatives
Responsible for training of regional Producers
Partners with business teams to develops ongoing trainings for group
Leads team calls ensuring group communication

People Management

Continuously builds network of talent inside and outside of company
Demonstrates performance and leadership bar across multiple levels and able to applies to hiring decisions
Creates mechanisms to help onboard all new Producers to organization, mentors others
Effective at coaching and giving feedback to direct reports to help develop talent and support career development
Sets goals across team to optimize performance against department goals and employee development
Applies performance standards to team
Identifies resource needs for team and creates formal trainings and self-assessment surveys for IDP development
Describes strategic importance of vision inside and outside of team
Sets and articulates expectations around leadership behavior for team, models behavior that exemplifies the leadership principles


To learn more about Product Imaging, visit our page at http://bit.ly/AmazonImaging

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Equivalent experience of MBA from a premium institute
Proven experience successfully delivering results
Strong leadership and team building capabilities with the ability to impact cross-functionally taking constructive input
Advanced Microsoft Office user
Exceptional collaboration and organization skills
Strong formal and informal, written and verbal communication skills
Possess strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to set priorities, multi-task and meet deadlines
Demonstrate strong listening, problem solving skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Demonstrated implementation of process improvement programs considered an asset
Experience in a leadership role within a creative environment, with an emphasis on e-commerce studio
Experience hiring, developing, and managing a team
Demonstrate strong listening, problem solving skills
Exceptional collaboration and organization skills