Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the production schedule in accordance with the deadlines.
• Track all costs (cash in & out) and report production progress through scoreboards to ensure the production stays within the budget.
• Communicate and troubleshoot budget problems with Line Producer, Head of Production and Producers.
• Communicate with accounting and production administrator for all administrative and financial topics.
• Anticipate needs for new resources and hire the staff required for the production.
• Negotiate and ensure follow-up with external service providers, contractors and sub-contractors.          
• Work with the team on a daily basis to ensure that the departments outputs are aligned with the production schedule.
• Produce and maintain a detailed weekly production report with deadlines for all the individual departments.
• Run Production meetings.
• Help developing strong relationships with partners to ensure daily communication runs smoothly.
• Coach co-production coordinators
• Do performance reviews together with the leads to provide crew with clear feedback.
• Help on the development, maintenance & improvement of the production Shotgun website, create and update process documents for the production.

Requirements

• Excellent command of written and oral English and/or French.
• At least 4 years of experience in Animation production at the same role.
• Strong knowledge of animation workflow processes, both 2D & 3D from pre-production to post-production
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills
• Pro-active, anticipating and solution-oriented
• Very good organization and rigor in the work
• Computer skills required: Microsoft Word, Excel, (Macro & VBA skills will be a plus), Shotgrid.
• Ability to communicate effectively and tactfully with production team including Producers, Co-Producers, Directors and artists both written and verbally
• Ability to organize, schedule, and delegate work effectively