Senior Producer

Brandtech+; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Brandtech+ in South Africa is seeking a Senior Producer to lead regional delivery of high-volume campaigns, coordinating with global and regional teams to ensure brand guidelines and on-time delivery across TV, digital, and print.

You will direct production timelines, manage budgets, coordinate VO sessions, and guide PMs, with a focus on local market lead times and resource availability. The role emphasizes stakeholder communication and process innovation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in broadcast, digital & social video and print across owned and bought media.
• Experience managing multi-channel campaigns with multiple languages.
• Proven ability to drive campaign production lifecycles and manage onsite and offshore teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities, with risk assessment in real time using agile methods.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsible for regional delivery, supporting the Delivery lead to deliver a high volume of localized assets.
• Coordinate with regional PMs on planning, status, risks, and challenges.
• Act as client communicator for detailed timeline-specific queries.
• Create production timelines per SLA and build forecasts to align with resource PMs.
• Brief Design on campaign specifics, timings and scope.

Skills

Production leadership

Project management

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Budgeting & forecasting

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Join our dynamic team as a Snr. Producer, where you'll lead production efforts for one our global brands. Reporting to the Delivery Lead, you'll closely collaborate with global and regional teams, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders and driving impactful content post-production and global adaptations.

As the Snr. Producer, you possess expertise in global brand campaign production cycles, emphasizing your passion for crafting engaging creative across various media platforms. Your role requires a deep understanding of the production and delivery processes for broadcast, online and digital media. You'll spearhead project management, assessing campaign volumes, and scoping while reviewing production schedules and providing direction to Project Managers. Your role involves tailoring bespoke timings based on local market lead times and resource availability.

You'll maintain close coordination with the Account manager to ensure adherence to campaign milestones, quality standards, and timely delivery. As a motivating force within the team, you'll inspire your direct reports to excel in their roles, while facilitating effective communication across global and regional teams to align with overarching production objectives. Acting as the central point of contact, you'll relay status updates, risks, and challenges of all campaign deliverables, including budget and resource considerations, while escalating production issues to the Regional and Channel Leads.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsible for regional delivery, supporting the Delivery lead to deliver a high volume of localized assets, ensuring alignment with client objectives and brand guidelines.
• Support Regional Project Manager on project planning, status, risks, and challenges.
• Client communicator for detailed timeline-specific project queries.
• Creating production timelines according to SLA’s, building pipeline campaign forecasts to identify production peaks to resource PMs accordingly.
• Briefing the Design team on campaign specifics, timings and scope.
• Overseeing and signing off IPMs adapted timings based on local market nuance.
• Tracking regional pre-production tasks such as translations, Voice over recordings, price validation, global master approvals and market participation.
• Escalating resource shortfalls to Regional Lead and channel leads.
• Overseeing and tracking PMs delivery progress, feeding status reports to regional and channel leads.
• Build and nurture strong relationships with key stakeholders such delivery companies and other suppliers.
• Lead regional production, localisation & delivery, ensuring direction, control, and effective communication throughout the process.
• Oversee TV, social, digital and print campaigns covering owned and bought media, managing multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.
• Direct and manage VO recording sessions, manage usage rights.
• Drive campaign execution, and closure, monitoring progress, controlling deadlines, engaging relevant stakeholders and ensuring successful delivery.
• Support the Regional Lead to produce data-lead monthly reporting and strategic QBRs, as well as support across invoicing and out-of-scope work.
• Lead daily stand-up calls with Satellite Studio teams, ensuring production is on track and providing an escalation point to the Global Account director and Delivery Lead.
• Review global campaigns, familiarise yourself with forecast data, to drive foresight of production.
• Support the Regional Lead on campaign kick-off calls, assisting on out-of-scope and out-of-guideline conversations as needed.
• Ensure brand guardianship of local briefs and global guideline changes, while rolling out local campaigns in the sales market and re-iterating local SLAs.
• Support Regional Lead with cost estimates for additional resource where needed.
• Champion automation and future-facing ways of working.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in broadcast, digital & social video and print, covering owned and bought media.
• Experience working with multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.
• Demonstrated production experience on global brands with line management experience.
• Strong account & project management skills, with experience managing onsite and offshore teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Proven ability to drive successful campaign production lifecycles, with an ability to assess risk in real time adapt using agile methodology.
• Proficiency forecasting, resource management and project burn rate.
• Keen eye for detail and commitment to innovation and new business growth.

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...

You’re someone who thrives on shared successes, especially as part of a team that’s making waves with innovative processes & high-volume delivery. Unexpected turns energise you, and you take challenges head‑on, inspiring your entire team to find solutions and stay the course. Your positive spirit keeps your sleeves rolled up, always ready to seize every opportunity.

You’ll be the kind of person who is driven by producing large volume multi-media campaigns curating timelines and motivating your team ensure high quality creative delivered with maximum efficiency. You’ll be confident with clients and thinks on their feet. You relish adding value throughout the end‑to‑end creative process, adding your unique touch at every turn.

Ideally, you’ll have experience in large‑scale accounts in FMCG industries and experience across multiple channels – because we do the lot, from TV to DOOH to press to 121 to display, social and content.

You’ll already be a Producer looking for bigger challenges on a larger account where you can hone your existing skills and cultivate new ones.

Our values shape everything we do:

• Be Ambitious to succeed
• Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible
• Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
• Be always learning and listening to understand
• Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
• Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

Brandtech+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

Brandtech+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.