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With our unique Audience-First production model, we Create, Scale and Personalize content to captivate audiences and achieve desired brand and business outcomes.\nFusing creativity and performance, we create harder working, more sustainable content, reducing waste, and providing stronger ROI.\nIntroduction\nThe Operations Director, UK will have the duty of bringing Operations production best-practices to the UK offices. In addition to creating and documenting processes, this professional will have to ensure they are successfully applied across all UK Studios.\nWith Prose on Pixels aim to become an Audience Driven Production company, this professional’s main objective will be to ensure: End-to-end Production delivery excellence and effectiveness; Data Strategy & Tool implementation; Media and Audience partners integration; Creative Automation delivery excellence; Tracking, Reporting & Optimisation tool implementation; Adobe stack usage and enhancement.\nAs Prose on Pixels Audience First ops model grows, this person must master the methodology and ensure UK offices are fully aligned with it. For that, they will have to ensure full integration with Creative and Media entities and help us lead Production thinking across UK Village. As well as setting up processes and integrations, this person needs to show an empathetic and positive leadership, being a natural role model and leader for the UK multidisciplinary production teams. As well as their UK role, they will also represent the UK as a senior point of contact, working with our Prose on Pixels Global collective, to drive the UK’s position within our global offering.\nKey Responsibilities\nCreate, document and apply processes that will allow Prose on Pixels deliveries across all areas of production. Those processes should be fully aligned with the Audience-Driven model. \nUse Creative Automation tools and data driven production processes to improve client efficiencies. Report efficiencies to executive team, work with Account leadership to map improvement and innovation opportunities and maintains relationship with key Automation partners. \nManage the overall view of our broader global resources - and how the UK connects into them. Work with resource managers in different global locations to find the best resource solutions for our teams. \nConstantly reviewing and optimising process workflows and ensures standards (client SLAs) are met and no shortcuts are taken. \nDrive a performance driven culture which provides data and information for key client and operational KPIs, as agreed. \nCreates, implements and manages tracking, reporting & optimisation tools and routines across UK offices. 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