Senior Manager, Creative - Executive Producer

Position Summary...

Walmart Creative Studio is the in-house creative agency for Walmart. Our team develops breakthrough and distinctive design systems and creative conversations that drive business objectives and keep our Fortune #1 brand in the culture. We use creativity and design to win hearts, minds, and wallets.

We are uniquely positioned as the internal creative agency of record to be hyper-focused on the customer experience across all channels, categories, and campaigns. We are ruthlessly focused on human truths, insight-driven creative strategies and integrated creative solutions that build the brand and grow the business - not just with ads but through brand acts and experiences.

We value talent, diversity, innovation, curiosity, collaboration, culture, insights, and results, and we are committed to helping people - all people - live better.

Position Summary:
In this role you are an expert at matching the right skills and talent to deliver our brand campaigns, and your experience and knowledge allow you to identify, communicate, and alleviate downstream challenges and interdependencies with partner and/or stakeholder teams. You should be comfortable engaging entry-level through executive stakeholders and working with many different types of creative professionals and creative outputs. You should possess excellent communication and collaboration skills. You will partner closely with a variety of peers and stakeholders such as creative directors, designers, account management, project managers, postproduction teams and sample management to deliver results. You will help bring creative concepts and campaigns that tell a cohesive story across a variety of channels to life with an eye on superior results and delivering on time and on budget. You are an experienced, calm leader of the internal and external cross-functional team – inspiring the team with the latest in creative innovation, execution, and talents.

What you'll do...

• Remove roadblocks to production and coordinate with cross functional partners to create timelines and process that works for production workstreams

• Collaborate closely with internal WCS and external agency partners’ creative and production teams, in-house marketers, and finance partners to identify opportunities for cost savings without compromising quality.

• Clearly communicate project status with stakeholders and marketing managers as the production subject matter expert

• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and maintain a positive attitude throughout

• Work with legal and business affairs teams to build contracts, secure usage rights, assess risk, and clear work for distribution.

• Bid, hire and manage all production partners for content projects. This includes managing shoots (video and photo), post-production, animation, and digital

• Oversee producers across different work streams and create production efficiencies where possible

• Establish production guidelines and playbooks for all content developed by Walmart marketing.

• Ongoing review of production processes and practices with an eye toward enhancing and increasing effectiveness

• Provide on set production governance alongside WCS creatives and provide IP related feedback during reviews

• Team up with Senior Manager, Creative Production Analyst on reviewing production bids and providing production expertise in awarding productions.

• Put repeatable processes in place that help the team plan and manage multiple parallel projects and run our business

• Primary point of contact for video, photography, and motion design projects. Work closely with creative directors, art directors and copy