Production Coordinator (Home Entertainment / FMCG)

Production Coordinator (Music)

Our client is offering an excellent opportunity to a Production Coordinator. They are a leading manufacturer of premier, state-of-the-art audio, video, communications and information technology products. Its creative music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make them one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies for the broadband era.

Core Duties

The Production Coordinator ensures seamless order process and supply of product and packaging into vendor; managing multiple critical paths, ensuring achievement of milestones and is responsible for workability of central components

Key Tasks

Pre-Production

Maintain clear visibility and educate relevant stakeholders of critical path and key milestones for New Release (NR) and New Product delivery
Monitoring of product release schedule – referring to line manager to identify potential risks to delivery timing of NR product
Collaborate with content providers (both SPHE and acquisition) to ensure delivery and workability of assets to required timelines
Profile/Disc configurations/content verification
Working with GPS NR Team and DADC MF team to identify exceptional Key milestones for Event titles. Co-ordination of related workflow
Supporting co-ordination of local censorship/certification submission/title registration process.
Liaising with Print and Packaging team to ensure awareness of critical path timelines of all locally sourced packaging elements for all formats
Ensuring Workability of central and UK territory components to time/critical path co-ordination. Liaise with HO Title Manager group to ensure masters are delivered to replicator to time

Production

Co-ordination of pre-sale/promotion /Quality Control (QC) production quantities
Creation of purchase orders for stampers, mastering, QC checks and test discs for European and Asian DLT’s
Set up and maintain part numbers for all central components
Liaising with UK Commercial functions/Business Units to confirm Bill of Materials (BOM)content/component sourcing. Identification of retailer specific SKUs, Variants etc.
Place & track Purchase orders for EU, bundle deal / promotional activity
Ensure BOM changes are transferred to key supplier for system updates
Validation of agreed pricing differentials within system

Compliance:

Demonstrate and promote SPHE values of Teamwork, Trust & Innovation
Maintenance and verification of master data into multiple systems
Action approved component / data rationalisation requests. Update systems to reflect component deletions/rationalization
Supply of relevant component and services cost data to European and HO team as required
Explore innovative ways to improve the production processes Challenge the replicators/suppliers to continually look for ways optimise the process

Key Skills

Experience within Home Entertainment, Manufactured goods e.g. FMCG workflow/critical path management
Experience/ knowledge of sales and marketing processes
Understanding of DVD / CD replications processes and high level understanding of Operations / Supply Chain processes
Pre-production/authoring process
Understanding of best practice MRP processes
Strong commercial awareness and understanding of product P&L information
Proven experience in building strong client/partner relationships
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and present information clearly and concisely
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel and Outlook

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