Marketing Production Manager

Role Overview:

The Marketing Production Manager (MPM) plays a critical role in bridging creative vision and operational execution, ensuring marketing campaigns are delivered seamlessly, on time, and to the highest quality standards. The role partners closely with cross-functional teams, production partners, agencies, and stakeholders to manage campaign planning, creative production, localization, budgeting, asset tracking, and final delivery across APAC markets for a leading OTT streaming platform.

Key Responsibilities

Campaign Planning & Strategy

• Build, manage, and track end-to-end campaign timelines across cross-functional teams.
• Plan production milestones and campaign deliverables for long-lead marketing initiatives.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure campaign execution aligns with business objectives.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks impacting timelines or deliverables.

Budget Management & Cost Control

• Track and forecast creative production budgets and production vendor spend.
• Review, define, and monitor costs associated with all stages of campaign production.
• Assess feasibility, production requirements, and associated costs for campaign creation, adaptation, and fulfillment.
• Ensure efficient budget utilization while maintaining quality and delivery standards.

Purchase Orders & Vendor Management

• Raise, manage, and track Purchase Orders (POs) and Statements of Work (SOWs) for production-related activities.
• Coordinate with production vendors, agencies, and partners to ensure smooth execution of deliverables.
• Monitor vendor performance, timelines, and cost adherence.

Creative Asset Management & Localization

• Partner with Planning, AV Production, and Art & Print teams to define localization strategies and workflows.
• Track creative assets throughout the campaign lifecycle.
• Manage asset adaptation requirements to support local market needs and media specifications.
• Ensure alignment between creative execution and localization objectives.

Creative Production & Execution

• Oversee agency timelines and production schedules for creative adaptation and finishing.
• Provide title guidelines, brand guidelines, and available creative assets to production partners.
• Manage the adaptation and finishing of campaign assets to meet media and market requirements.
• Support execution of localized and market-specific creative initiatives.

Bespoke Production & Activations

• Manage end-to-end production processes for activations, stunts, events, and custom creative executions.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful campaign delivery.
• Partner with Legal teams on production-related approvals, compliance requirements, and media-related queries.

Quality Control & Asset Delivery

• Manage asset tracking and status updates across production and workflow management tools.
• Ensure all campaign assets are planned, ordered, and delivered according to schedule.
• Conduct final quality control reviews and secure all required approvals before release.
• Oversee the complete asset lifecycle from creation through final delivery.
• Manage clearance and delivery of approved assets to media owners and distribution partners.
• Maintain visibility into campaign status, asset readiness, and delivery milestones.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a key point of contact for cross-functional teams involved in campaign execution.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Creative, Production, Planning, Media, Legal, and Operations teams.
• Facilitate effective communication and alignment across regional and local stakeholders.
• Drive operational excellence by ensuring transparency, accountability, and workflow efficiency.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience in Marketing Production, Campaign Operations, Creative Operations, Project Management, or Production Management.
• Strong understanding of campaign planning, production workflows, creative adaptation, and localization processes.
• Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, POs, and SOWs.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Excellent project planning, organization, and communication abilities.
• Experience working with marketing asset management and workflow tools.
• Ability to balance creative excellence with operational efficiency.

Preferred Experience

• Experience within entertainment, media, OTT, streaming, digital content, or consumer-focused industries.
• Experience managing regional campaigns across multiple markets.
• Familiarity with creative production, AV production, print production, and localization workflows.
• Experience working with global teams and distributed stakeholders across APAC regions.

Let's stick to the 8-12 years range. Notice periods, please flag to me if anything is over 45 days.