Managing Director

Managing Director, Non-Scripted Content 

The Role and What You’ll Do:

• You will report to the CEO of Done and Dusted North America, Melanie Fletcher 

• Responsible for leading the overall operations of D+D USA productions.  

• This role oversees many business functions — spearheading production operations, development, finance, legal, and HR.  

• The MD sets organizational priorities, builds and nurtures strong teams across production, technical, operations, and development.  

• Provides decisive leadership to EP’s, EIC’s & administrative staff and cultivates long-term relationships with key clients, broadcasters & streaming partners, key business partners and teams across the wider Endeavor ecosystem

Operations

• Manage production calendars, resource allocation, and build internal production pipelines.

• Oversee and take responsibility for project management across each production.

• Own and manage multi-project financials and budget/track company overhead spending

• Managing existing processes, systems, and workflows and where improvement can be made to implement new methods.  

• Work with EIC’s to ensure contractual compliance with legal, finance, Insurance, Health and Safety.

• Act as senior point of escalation and client-facing representative for major productions.

• Oversee day-to-day company operations including management of the Santa Monica office facilities and amenities.

• Facilitate local contract management e.g., IATSE, DGA, SAG-AFTRA, AFM, WGA, and IA.

• Champions the company’s culture and values

Pre-Production

• Collaborate with the legal team to execute Production Services Agreements and Scopes of Work.

• Engage in client liaison.

• Facilitate project budgeting including closely monitoring and driving of recoupable staff draw downs.

• Build project timelines and milestones.

• Set up productions in Reback Lee systems and work through cash flow schedule approvals. 

• Manage project key hires, production teams, crew, and vendors.

• Negotiate deals and confirm crew accordingly.

• Facilitate project onboarding.

• Liaise with Executive Producers and drive decision making.

Day-to-Day Production

• Manage production teams including Executive producers, EIC’s, Production managers, coordinators, and freelancers

• Serve as the key production liaison for clients, networks, streaming partners, sponsors, and creative stakeholders.

• Monitor cost reports, mitigate financial risks, and provide budget updates to executive leadership and clients.

• Liaise between Production, Legal, Business Affairs, HR, IT, Finance, outside counsel, union and guild representatives, to ensure compliance, standards and practices.

• Facilitate deal memos and contracts.

• Facilitate venue relationships, vendor bidding and approval, and post-production.

Production Close Down

• Supervise and manage the closing of any project.

• Obtain final versions of budgets, ledger, and distribution documents.

• Resolve estimates to completion.

• Manage debriefing of meetings, note keeping, and distribute accordingly.

• Ensure all contract deliverables have been completed.

• Ensure copies of all key assets are held on D+D servers.

New Business

• Pitch Production Planning including

• Understanding/Unpacking RFP requirements 

• Procuring freelance resources 

• Budgeting

• Logistic analysis

• Location Advancing

• Legal Coordination – attachment agreements etc. 

Other Day to Day Operations

• Review, approve and chase up Amex reconciliation 

• Manage and track multi-million-dollar production budgets across multiple projects.

• Client & Stakeholder Management

• Translate creative briefs and client goals into actionable production plans.

• Lead production meetings and ensure all teams are aligned on expectations, deliverables, and timelines.

HR & Culture

• Manage negotiation process and confirm staff accordingly.

• Maintain and update all D+D Employee HR documentation, including but not limited to Deal Memos, HR Handbook, and Payroll packets.

• Manage onboarding of new staff members and ensure smooth integration with the existing team.

• Freelance data base