Trailer Services Manager (Hiring Immediately)

THE ROLE

The trailer department is responsible for delivering premium marketing collateral, across global markets for high-profile entertainment clients. Working on pre-release content under strict theatrical marketing security embargos, delivering high volume localised assets via secure, centralised, day-and-date delivery model.

An extremely visible, client facing role, overseeing projects, team, workflow and technology, with ultimate responsibility for campaign success. Ownership of complete trailer output for the agency, managing client services teams delivering full-scale localisation, mastering and delivery of Hollywood clients multi-platform trailer campaign launches.

• Complete overview of complex a/v production and localisation projects. Delivering upwards of 300+ multi-platform assets, across 60+ markets per campaign.
• Overall responsibility for international campaign fulfilment, ensuring output aligns with client expectations, resolving any/all issues that arise during production cycles.
• Scope project requirements and ensure resources, technology and personnel are in place to deliver. Managing multiple projects simultaneously with conflicting deadlines and little scope to compromise on delivery.
• Engaging with clients across all levels, junior to exec, regarding projects, pre, during and post delivery. Interpreting brief and cascading to internal teams.
• Driving operational initiatives, capacity planning, evolving infrastructure and workflow to meet project demands and communicate to teams.
• Oversee client service department team including recruitment, rota and shift patterns.
• Working to tight production windows, with high volume and fast turnaround parameters, oversee delivery of full suite of fully localised assets (trailer, cutdowns, social resizes, DCPs)
• Project forecasting, internal and client reporting. Delivering order and project statuses, and ‘real-time’ reporting post launch to executive level clients.
• Chair and lead internal team meetings.
• Utilising industry knowledge and background to support pitching our trailer services to potential new clients.
• Assess performance of teams, constantly evolving team processes, ensuring workflows are adhered to.
• Ensure correct operating procedures are utilised and manage third party suppliers to support/maintain bespoke theatrical screening equipment in line with client requirements.
• Keep up-to-date with industry standard tech and processes.
• Initiate process and manage any third party vendor relationship, oversee workflow, track and report on spend.
• Participating in internal operational, capacity and management meetings with the wider Localisation department at DMS to promote cross-team collaboration.

WHO WE ARE

We are a vibrant, engaged, talent-driven agency where our staff feel empowered, where ideas are encouraged and where outstanding work is rewarded.

DMS is a place where our clients feel looked after, where they trust our ability to deliver and to come up with new ways of engaging them and helping them engage their audiences.

WHAT WE DO

We are a full-service creative digital media agency. Our people, technology and insights help global media and entertainment, sports and lifestyle brands create, manage, localise, distribute and place their content, and evaluate its media reach.

ABOUT DMS

DMS, part of the AKA Group of companies, was established in 2002 and has over 100 employees. From our facilities based in London and LA we provide digital creative and media intelligence services to our clients that comprise of major film and TV studios, leading independent film distributors, West End and Broadway theatres, cultural institutions, sports, music and fashion companies.

Requirements

• Experience in managing trailer/short form marketing localisation projects for film/entertainment clients.
• Experienced in working to global, secure, centralised day-and-date release model.
• Solid understanding of international trailer campaign production and delivery, team management and digital media technology, processes and deliverables across online and theatrical platforms.
• Remain calm under pressure, able to troubleshoot quickly and make quick production decisions based on changing scope, content, timings and deliverables, to ensure projects remain on brief and timeline remains on track.
• Ability to own and clearly communicate production strategy to teams.
• Comfortable and confident conversing with high-level clients regarding production specs and project parameters with the ability to guide, advise and instil confidence in your abilities and our trailer services.
• Must have outstanding attention to detail on]]>