Head of ProductionProduction Lead
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Job Description
Guardian Australia is part of Guardian News & Media (GNM) publisher oftheguardian. As a leading global media organisation we are renowned for our pioneering independent journalism and our awardwinning digital products.
We are seeking an experienced head of production or production lead based in Sydney to join us on a fulltime 12 month parental leave contract. The successful candidate will lead and manage the Guardian Labs production team and champion the Guardians values of integrity quality and trust to deliver impactful advertising campaigns that meet both Guardian and client objectives.
Guardian Labs is a multidisciplinary creative studio that creates influential brand campaigns with integrity that readers trust.
Youll work on
Production Team
- Lead the Guardian Labs production team.
- Oversee production workflows across internal and external teams including producers designers writers and developers.
- Plan production capacity and project pipelines to anticipate and manage workload fluctuations effectively.
- Build and maintain a network of trusted external suppliers (freelancers designers videographers photographers writers developers etc. to scale production as needed.
- Identify and implement process improvements and innovations to enhance efficiency and financial resilience.
Commercial Strategy & Team Collaboration
- Execute Guardian Labs vision and strategic priorities.
- Work closely with commercial leaders to develop innovative advertising solutions ensuring Guardian Labs remains competitive and industryleading.
- Monitor market trends and innovation sharing insights with the team to uphold best practices and drive commercial growth.
Campaign Delivery
- Oversee Guardian Labs project delivery endtoend to ensure clients and projects are managed with trust integrity and excellence and content is produced and delivered to a high standard of quality.
- Lead complex and firstoftheirkind campaigns providing strategic oversight and production support.
- Work crossfunctionally on integrated projects to meet business needs.
- Monitor overall production costs by reviewing postcampaign reconciliations of actual costs to budget to ensure campaigns are profitable.
Pitching
- Asses briefs and proactive opportunities advising on production solutions feasibility and expected outcomes.
- Oversee production costing in pitch responses to ensure budget splits and rate card pricing are adhered to.
- Participate in brainstorm sessions contributing innovative ideas for both proactive pitches and client briefs.
Global Collaboration
- Maintain relationships with Guardian Labs and commercial teams worldwide to facilitate knowledgesharing and alignment with global initiatives.
- Stay informed about technical and production developments across GNMs digital platforms ensuring integration of best practices.
Youll bring.
Knowledge and experience
- Experience leading and managing a production team in publishing production or agency production.
- Proven track record of delivering successful content partnership campaigns as a lead digital producer or project manager in a clientfacing role.
- Strong working knowledge of the digital media industry.
- Strong understanding of marketing objectives commercial imperatives and digital sales implementation.
- Proven experience in strategic planning risk management and/or change management.
- Proven experience managing and collaborating with multiple internal and external stakeholders including clients agency partners and contractors/suppliers.
- Strong working knowledge and understanding of content production or project management apps (trello smartsheet or similar).
- Qualifications in project management or methodology or proven experience.
- Knowledge and understanding of best practice UX & UI design and web standards.
- Understanding of emerging digital products and various technologies required to deliver content marketing and native advertising campaigns.
- Understanding of technologies and techniques including HTML CSS JavaScript (no coding required).
- Understanding and enthusiasm for the Guardians editorial values and interest in web journalism.
- Passion for excellence in content and partnership work.
Skills / Behaviours
- Strong ability to lead by example
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Strong ability to build effective working relationships with people at all levels
- Highly organised and efficient at managing multiple projects and priorities
- Flexible approach and capable of working efficiently in a fastpaced environment
- Calm under pressure
- Highly motivated proactive with strong initiative
- Problem solver and solutions orientated
- Strong negotiation skills
- Excellent decisionmaking capabilities
- Assertive and resilient
- Deadline and delivery focused
- Lateral innovative and creative thinker
- High attention to detail
- Experience using Adobe suite (desirable)
About working at Guardian Australia
- Hybrid working
- Employee assistance program (EAP) to support employee wellbeing
- Paid volunteer leave
- Dedicated diversity and inclusion employee groups action plans (including our Reconciliation Action Plan) and cultural competency training
- Guardian digital subscription
For more information please view the full job descriptionhere.
This role is being offered on a fulltime 12 month parental leave contract basis.
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Closing date for applications: 4 May 2024
If you have application questions or if you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process please email
We believe that our role in the Australian media is to give a voice to the most marginalised people in society and value and respect all differences in all people including people of colour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples people from different social classes people with diverse gender and sexual identities and people with disabilities (seen and unseen). We believe that these communities must be centred in the work we do bringing a new perspective and a diversity of thought. We also encourage flexible working and aim to create a work environment where all employees feel respected.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
