Senior Manager, Art & Print Production

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

As part of the EMEA Regional Marketing team, the Senior Manager, Art & Print will report to the Production Director and oversee the regional Art & Print producers based in Amsterdam. This leader will be an in-house expert in all related to static marketing and play a crucial role in managing the finishing, localisation, production and adaptation of marketing key art, out-of-home, and print campaigns in EMEA. They will have an entrepreneurial mindset, a history of people management experience, thrive in an ever changing environment and illustrate a keen level of intellectual curiosity. They will be both comfortable driving a project to success, working closely with marketing partners and creatives, and managing and inspiring a team of producers to do likewise. They will drive innovation in vendor infrastructure, workflows, and tooling to optimize our processes in tight co-ordination with global partners and peers.

Key Areas & Skills:

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Ability to set a clear vision for the team, aligning production goals with overall business objectives.
• Leads by example, inspiring the team and creating a collaborative and creative work environment.
• Cultivate a strong shared purpose within the team, and actively promote this positive culture across internal and external partners.
• Effectively engage with a wide range of stakeholders across different functions and regions, gathering input, understanding perspectives, needs, and clearly communicating priorities and progress.
• Nurturing and developing the skills of team members to maintain a high performing team. This includes mentoring, providing feedback, and creating opportunities for growth and learning.
• Demonstrates strong emotional intelligence, with the ability to navigate pressure and ambiguity while setting a clear vision and positive tone for the team.
• Illustrated experience in maintaining production budgets and resource allocation effectively.

ART & PRINT FINISHING AND PRODUCTION EXPERTISE

• Provide technical and creative finishing advice working alongside our finishing agencies and external partners.
• Keenly understand the core entertainment marketing creative intent with artwork and leading the team to execute world class finishing on art assets for marketing campaigns.
• Be a brand guardian and knowledge centre for Marketing Art and OOH assets.
• Define and monitor quality standards, ensuring creative integrity on all deliverables
• Up to date with the latest tools, trends, and formats.
• Demonstrable ability to learn new tooling, understand its impact on current workflows, and engage in the development with internal and external partners.

VENDOR, PROJECT & BUDGET MANAGEMENT

• A multi-tasker able to oversee multiple campaigns at different production stages the team is working on.
• Track and maintain a regional team budget, building a clear picture of needs, partner costs and active objectives to forecast with accuracy.
• Define, communicate, implement and monitor quality standards and creative integrity on all project deliverables in line with Netflix creative guidelines.
• Continuously evolve the vendor infrastructure in response to the changing needs of the business.
• Stay current with the latest technologies and proactively seek opportunities to innovate and enhance our ways of working.

XF PARTNERSHIP & RELATIONSHIP

• Work closely with the local markets, understanding and supporting local implementation.
• Manage both internal and external partners on projects.

LOCALISATION

• Experience working with needs involving translation and transcreation.
• Manage optimal integration in art & print production workflows.
• Ability to partner closely with translation & language teams to address country level needs & considerations.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of Marketing Art & Print production experience.
• An expert in all related to static marketing.
• A deep understanding and ability to communicate art production, finishing, OOH, and print workflows.
• An understanding of entertainment marketing creative objectives, and campaign lifecycle, from initial concept through to launch.
• Exceptional project management and communication skill.
• Proven experience leading diverse teams, demonstrating exceptional empathy and people management skill.
• Ability to interact effectively with senior business leaders, showcasing excellent communication skills and executive presence.
• Exceptional creative problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to rapidly assess new information and propose optimal business solutions.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous situations, independently setting goals and desired outcomes that align with broader business strategy.
• Comfortable to openly invite feedback and collect challenging perspectives / considerations.
• Thrives in fast-paced, high-pressure environments and possesses intellectual curiosity and sound judgment in uncertain situations.
• Keeps abreast of emerging technologies (including AI) and production trends.
• Demonstrates curiosity and a passion for innovation in production.

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