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ABOUT THIS ROLE
Based in Berlin, Audible GmbH is looking for an EU Production Operations Manager. The EU Production Operations Manager is part of our Content Planning and Operations group (CPO) and manages crucial aspects of production operations and slate management for Audible Studios, Programming and Content Marketing for the EU businesses. This includes updates to meetings with relevant stakeholders to ensure release and payment trackers data is correct and can be trusted.
This position is a 24 month contract.
ABOUT YOU
You are a logical thinker that translates operations and business needs into a leading-edge, customer-focused solutions, and you are comfortable creating solutions for ambitious ideas in ambiguous environments. You possess expert organizational, managerial, and communication skills with a proven ability to handle multiple projects and deliver results.
As an EU Production Operations Manager, you will...
- Work with stakeholder teams to manage their production pipeline and ensure that deadlines are met and all necessary steps of the production process are completed
- Ensure that each project’s credits, deliverables, marketing obligations, and distributions match the contract provisions consistent with company policies
- Monitor and manage receipt of invoices from productions
- Ensure that all production papers are paid or reimbursed in a timely manner
- Oversee asset management from requests to tracking across the content creation process
- Facilitate onboarding third party vendors and partner with Producers to develop these relationships including graphic designers, illustrators, copyeditors, and fact-checkers
- Ensure all third party vendors are paid in a timely manner
- Coordinate effectively among cross-functional teams, particularly Audible’s audio production, merchandising, deal-making, marketing, metadata, and public relations teams, to ensure all deadlines are met in a timely manner
- Work with internal stakeholders to adjust product release schedules accordingly
- Communicate changes across multiple teams including content lifecycle, production, finance, and marketing teams
- Deliver the entire suite of assets (audio, copy, promotional materials, artwork, table of contents, metadata, budget, localization assets, etc.) to the content lifecycle team and request pre-order pages
- Develop and maintain the overall production schedule including setting timelines with each producer on every project in pre-production, production, and post-production
- Work with producers to assist in securing and tracking agreements, clearances and all supporting documentation for projects in development and production
ABOUT AUDIBLE
Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. Our Hub+Home hybrid workplace model gives employees the flexibility between gathering in a common office space (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Berlin, BE, DEU
- 3+ years of experience in a media production environment
- Business fluency in written and verbal English and Italian
- Business fluency in additional languages
- Exceptional communication skills, a passion for customers
- Love and interest in all forms of media - both as a consumer and as a professional in the industry
- Self-motivated with the ability to take initiative, and work independently
- Ability to handle multiple priorities and work under deadline, a talent for getting things done, and a teamwork oriented attitude
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