Job Title: Producer

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

 

About the Role:

Manage a range of multimedia projects (audio, video and subtitling) working with internal production departments and teams as well as external resources and suppliers. You will be responsible for ensuring the project is resourced, planned and completed on schedule and your duties will include evaluating, quoting, scheduling, resolving conflicts and queries, paying suppliers, ensuring QA and making deliveries.

You will need to successfully manage junior colleagues and production teams to implement solutions for our clients that result in excellent customer satisfaction, repeat projects and efficient and profitable production. 

Role/Responsibilities

Responsible for the entire project life cycle: from client requirements, to defining a budget and timeline to deliver the project successfully to agreed milestones and quality levels

• Receive and cascade information and assets, ensuring suppliers and team members have all the relevant information to perform the work to the required standards
• Liaise with internal client teams to identify and define requirements, scope and objectives
• Negotiate with external studios, freelancers and vendors on pricing per project requirement
• Define the methodology and approach to best deliver each project in the most efficient manner with the necessary steps built in to monitor and ensure quality and timeliness
• Prepare the project plan, budget and quote for the project
• Communicate the project plan and assign tasks to internal and external resources and manage the schedule according to the project plan
• Ensure projects meet clients’ expectations and comply with internal requirements with respect to quality, budget and delivery timelines
• Monitor project progress and resolve queries and issues in a timely manner
• Act as the central point of contact and communicate effectively the project status and upcoming milestones to all relevant participants
• Communicate and escalate any significant changes, issues and potential risks to Managers in a timely manner
• Track costs and schedule and proactively manage changes
• Create and maintain accurate project documentation, take full responsibility for ensuring administration is completed in a timely manner
• Solution focused, continually assess project status and developments and  evolve/adapt production plans to keep the project running smoothly
• Interact with stakeholders on a daily basis and manage the relationship on the projects under your responsibility
• Work flexibly, proactively and reactively  with high volume throughputs by managing your workload & time
• Manage and mentor junior colleagues assigned to assist you on accounts, ensuring they are adequately trained for tasks assigned and necessary steps are taken to check and monitor performance.
• Other tasks as assigned