JOB TITLE: Account Director
COMPANY: PPC Creative Limited
DEPARTMENT: International Marketing Services
LOCATION: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
WORK PATTERN: Monday – Friday / 09:30 – 18:30
STATUS: Exempt
COMPANY OVERVIEW
PPC Creative Limited is a leading International Creative Production agency that combines a dedicated award-winning creative team with unparalleled production facilities.
With offices in LA and London, we offer a full agency cross-platform service that delivers on brief, on budget, and on schedule – our commitment, our passion, and our attention to detail can be seen on-screen in each job we do.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Account Director role sits within our International Marketing Services department. This role will manage our client localization teams overseeing LAT AM & APAC services and will work closely with the localization team in London to service the UPI and PPI Head offices. This is a hands-on role, liaising with the client, leading the team, and ensuring that the department runs efficiently on a day-to-day basis.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leading a team of localization producers and coordinators to ensure materials are produced to a high standard and on time
- Streamlining production workflows and processes, by working closely with the head of each department.
- Serving as the escalation point for any production/client questions or issues.
- Working with in-house graphic designers, audio technicians, and online editors to deliver international localized marketing materials (foreign language materials, a TV spot, or trailer and localizing it into several different languages) for the clients.
- Working with the finishing department to produce and deliver final materials, managing the delivery process and file production and asset management
- Downloading assets (i.e. OV masters, audio, GFX) from vendors/clients and making available company-wide on the sync
- Sending detailed work orders to graphics designers, audio engineers, and online editors, including project-specific specs and details
- QCing and overseeing revisions of produced files and delivering to client-approved proprietary platforms
- Collaborating with the UK office to ensure all communication across all jobs is efficient and correct
- Dealing directly with international territory offices regarding their orders and also with the studio head offices regarding campaign timelines, territory-specific requests, dubbing needs, et al
- Building relationships with marketing and operations personnel within the territories
- Collaborating with translators and dubbing studios to obtain translations and audio files
- Helping to assess and triage competing deadlines across all territory requests in a given day/week, working with scheduling and the different departments to ensure high-priority items are always first up
- Tracking all current orders on Smartsheet, and ensuring all documentation on project status is up to date daily
- Training and mentoring new hires on the localization team
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Educated to bachelor’s degree level
- 5+ years of experience in a management position
- Proven localization account management experience within a post production, studio or creative agency
- Proven ability to effectively build, organize, lead, and mentor a team
- Ability to work well under pressure and within tight deadlines
- A track record of designing processes from the ground up to support changing business needs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Agility and ability to quickly pivot between changing priorities
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced team environment
- Ability to manage workflows in multiple locations across multiple time zones
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, verbal, or diagram form
- Strong attention to detail and ability to juggle multiple priorities
- Ability to learn and process information quickly
The duties and responsibilities outlined above are intended to provide an overview of the role. The company reserves the right to amend or adjust these duties as necessary to meet the needs of the business.
This position is based in our LA head office and the base pay range for this position is up to $100,000 per annum. Actual amounts will vary based on the candidates’ skills, experience, and performance.