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26 Jun 2023

Full-Time Group Director, Production

Ewoeckener – Posted by Ewoeckener New York, New York, United States

Job Description

Our Production team of 150+ is committed to bringing great work to life. They oversee our projects from beginning to end, and balance financial and delivery success, while helping navigate our teams and clients towards those goals. They are collaborators and team leaders who bring people together and who inspire their team members with their solution-oriented approach.

As Group Director, Production, you will lead and manage a portfolio of large client engagements and own direct client relationships at least at the VP, SVP or EVP level. The Group Director, Production is responsible for developing the engagement strategy and successfully executing it across their business, ensuring smooth overall account operations, profitability and growth. The Group Director, Production acts as a trusted business partner to clients and is recognized by senior clients as a key advisor and is a key member of the broader agency group leadership team. In the context of their direct reports, the Group Director, Production creates and effectively executes a plan for talent that motivates, trains, guides, and delivers excellence from the team. Additionally, the Group Director is directly involved in steering the Production discipline at R/GA.

Here’s what you should know if you want to be an Group Director, Production at R/GA:

On any given day you might

  • Develop and implement thought leadership, training materials, process improvements and innovative solutions and services for the department and the company
  • Oversee multiple work streams concurrently and provide production guidance by helping build scopes, advising on timelines, and problem solving project roadblocks.
  • Mentor and manage Production staff across all aspects of Production excellence including delivery and client satisfaction
  • Partner with team leadership and engage with our most senior clients to develop, sustain, and grow the scope of the business across both organic and new business
  • Oversee team capacity planning and collaboration with discipline leads
  • Steward group/office P&L including (but not limited to) revenue targets, billability and utilization, SRS targets, freelance targets and gross margin targets. And support and innovates around our financial model
  • Guide the group/office portfolio towards world-class work

 

The ideal person

  • Builds strong relationships and engenders trust, inspires and develops colleagues across capabilities through contagious passion for clients and their businesses
  • Is committed to curating smart and lean teams and processes to meet and exceed margin targets
  • Always thinking creatively and strategically – makes sound business decisions that balance competing priorities (great work, satisfied client, profitability, cohesive team, and good process), as if they were running it as their own self-funded business.
  • Demonstrates flexibility, calmness, consideration, openness to new ideas and intellectual curiosity
  • Actively champions equity, diversity and inclusion
  • Can negotiate like a pro with the most senior partners

 

You bring

  • 12+ years industry experience, including agency-side experience running large engagements with Fortune 500 clients across multiple business sectors
  • Deep understanding across business transformation, experiential, digital products and services, and marketing work types
  • Leadership experience and financial responsibility in the $10MM+/annual range.
  • Successful management of networked teams across multiple geographies

 

This role can be performed remotely anywhere in the United States with the exception of Alabama, Hawaii, Indiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. We ideally are looking for  

The hiring range for this position is $199,000 to $215,000. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s applicable skills, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

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Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 100,000 and above.

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