About Us:
George P. Johnson (GPJ) is the World’s Leading Event And Experiential Marketing Agency. For over a century we’ve been partnering with the world’s top brands to deliver creative solutions that make a real difference.
Our strategic thinking and creativity breathes life into brands. Our ideas create impact, inspire audiences and grow business. It’s what turns our goals, and those of our clients, into results.
We’re happy working wherever the brief takes us. At home or abroad. On the huge, or the hugely important. Our scalability enables us to answer briefs of all shapes and sizes - effectively and efficiently.
About the Role:
As Associate Producer you will play an important part in implementing our clients’ objectives. In collaboration with colleagues in the Strategy & Planning, Creative and Digital disciplines, you will work within the Integrated Production team to deliver the project on time, on budget and on brief.
You will support in championing your area of Integrated Production expertise within the business on a single account, balancing the needs to provide excellent service to our clients, commercial success for GPJ and the continued growth and development of your competency across the agency’s Integrated Production team.
Operational Delivery
Manage small scale projects, or project areas, from end to end, including the alignment of all relevant internal stakeholders needed to ensure a successful delivery
Inputting into key project planning documents such as timelines and budgets across all allocated workstreams and projects
Provide regular updates to the Project Lead, proactively raising any risks, issues or concerns and collaboratively work towards a solution
Ongoing management of suppliers, in response to specific project and business needs
Overall accountability for the quality of work delivered, providing operational expertise as required
Providing additional production support across the Integrated Production Department as required e.g., pitches, new business proposals etc
Creative
Responsible for ensuring cross-team collaboration from design through to implementation
Understanding of the creative process, using the correct project documentation to brief and manage creative workstreams
Attend key meetings and provide input / expertise related to client needs
Talent Management
Understand and demonstrate knowledge of the various skill sets and abilities across the Integrated Production department
Able to clearly articulate, and meet performance objectives
Actively participate in and champion personal and department-wide Learning and Development opportunities
Client Relationships
Contribute towards the client relationship via the successful delivery and management of your own work streams and deliverables
Where necessary, partner with specialists across strategy, creative, digital and production as well as with account managers, so they can manage client expectations accordingly
Demonstrate an active understanding of a client’s objectives
New Business Development
Support the pitch lead when required, by managing relevant Integrated Production elements of the pitch process - ie venue searches
Responsible for providing timely and accurate support and guidance on RFPs
Actively promote GPJ through best practice
Finance
Accountable for accuracy within budget estimates for all project deliverables within your remit
Inputting into budgets/ estimates, managing/reconciling budgets
Contribute towards the ongoing management of project forecasting
Responsible for obtaining reviewing and responding to vendor quotes, ensuring we work with best in class partners and vendors, with regular negotiations to drive value, profitability and efficiency
Accountable for POs creation/ distribution
Identify and escalate potential budget/ financial issues
Understand and effectively manage PO and supplier invoicing processes
Understand and take initial steps to address impact of changes on project budget and financial metrics, with limited guidance
About you
You’re a self-starter who promotes a culture of entrepreneurial spirit
You have an agile mindset. You keep everything in perspective and lead your team and business that way
You are culturally aware and move with the times
You understand the marketplace and use this information to inform project decisions
You have the ability to articulate a clear vision of project success, in order to gain the confidence of a client audience
You demonstrate a calm and positive attitude
You’re adaptable and open to unexpected requests and ways of working (priorities and requirements can frequently change in an agency)
You are always willing to help other people within the project, across departments
You’re curious and eager to learn about the industry, clients’ business, tech solutions
You are solutions focused/ creative problem solver – presenting solutions to roadblocks in order to move forward
A challenger – you’re always looking to improve work rather than, ‘we’ve always done it like this’!
You are persistent and patient – persistence to follow up with stakeholders and clients but demonstrating empathy in understanding agency and client partners’ workload
You’re truly passionate about planning and delivering best-in-class work
You’re decisive, with the ability to make several decisions at once, and quickly
You are a champion of high quality outcomes and demonstrate an affinity with the brands you lead
You plan for the challenges, but expect the best. You know how to deliver in order to meet deadlines. You've already thought of the next step (or five) before being asked. You stay calm when there are changes to the plan and you're a veteran at going to "Plan B".