Production Manager - PepsiCo at Publicis Groupe in London, England, GB

Company Description

Within Publicis Groupe's Intelligent Creativity business, Publicis Production specializes in bringing creative ideas to life, and to consumers.Our 6,000-strong talent across 52 locations worldwide radically redefine content production by delivering Intelligent Content. Together, they leverage a 100-year history of craft excellence, the world's biggest studio network, and the industry's richest data through the power of agentic AI. Intuitively delivering through the world's first Intelligent Content agent, Marcel Make.The result? A production company that leads the way. A category-defining promise to the market with predictively performing content that unlocks unprecedented business growth. And a workplace with countless opportunities, at the forefront of innovation, AI and award-winning craft.

Overview

As PepsiCo’s food’s content production partner globally, our goal is to deliver the highest production craft whilst driving efficiency & effectiveness along the funnel.

In Q4 2024, Publicis Production won the global Food Transformation business for PepsiCo. We are currently working as a production entity within the full Publicis Network servicing PepsiCo and partnering with multiple other agencies within our Groupe to bring this partnership to life.

Our remit includes multiple culinary brands for PepsiCo across several market regions.

We create cut-through social content for PepsiCo Foods. Currently, we are producing this social first and online content from our Culinary Content Shoot Hubs. These hubs are connected within the full Publicis ecosystem and partner seamlessly with the rest of the agencies to deliver great quality content, at speed.

As a Production Manager within the PepsiCo team at Publicis Groupe, you will play an

integral role in supporting the creative and production teams to ensure all elements of our campaigns and HUB productions are executed smoothly and efficiently.

You will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of the production process, facilitating communication between departments, and ensuring that projects are delivered on time, with superb quality and within agreed budgets (agreed time mapping of our resources).

This position requires very strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced production environment.

Responsibilities

• Work hand in hand with the Production Lead to define, communicate and enforce production standards and deliver on the objectives.
• Define asset production criteria for social content production.
• Ensure that the assigned projects are produced to a high creative standard, delivered on time and within the agreed scope of work.
• Arrange briefings with Hub production teams, assign lead operators, conduct kick-off meetings, schedule client reviews, distribute feedback, track costs and manage project progress.
• Attend and take notes during all briefings/reviews and circulate info to shoot producers/production ops leads and post producers. Account Management where necessary.
• Be responsible for checking that all material has been reviewed and aligned to feedback and creative execution ahead of sharing out with clients for review.
• Play an active role in defining problems, recommending solutions and establishing resourceful conclusions.
• Negotiate rates with additional partners in the group and liaise with ops team to coordinate.
• Check that all work is reconciled correctly and comes in within the agreed budget.
• Approve all external costs with the client lead.
• Send regular updates to the client and wider teams on progress and any changes to timings.
• Continually defines ways to increase client satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
• Ensure the overall Production process runs seamlessly with the Production HUBs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Producer/Project Manager in a Client Facing Production capacity.
• Knowledge of creating content for social platforms is essential.
• Prioritisation, time management and attention to detail.
• Highly organised, proactive and possess excellent communication skills.
• Approachable, excellent interpersonal skills, detail oriented, responsive, problem solver and likes a challenge!
• Cool under fire, a production evangelist with an enterprising spirit.
• Confident managing both clients and agencies.
• Politically astute. Able to successfully navigate and resolve issues amicably.
• Experience of working on a global brand would be advantageous.
• Ability to work in an agile way, flexing styles to accommodate various stakeholders across the PepsiCo & Publicis Groupe network.
• Someone who hunts for opportunities to improve how we work as improve what we deliver.
• Commercially aware.

Additional Information

Diversity and inclusion is a core part of who we are at Publicis Production. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group – whatever their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion doesn’t just fuel our creativity and innovation, it brings us closer to our people and audiences. We will continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered and more importantly comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process. If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.