Planner

Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work On-Site with our Client in Glendale, CA. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Responsible for negotiating and providing status updates to key stakeholders.
• Understand the process of creating localized dubbed audio and subtitles.
• Works with vendors, internal departments, and clients.
• Responsibilities include tracking overall validated plan health and communicating any changes across all pertinent stakeholders.
• Is capable of solving a range of straightforward problems.
• Analyzes possible solutions using standard procedures while receiving moderate guidance and direction.
• Understands content planning, technical elements, creation, repairs, localization, updating & tracking of work orders & purchase orders, coordination of distribution logistics, and use of technical materials library.
• Understands specific content planning, business processes, and how those processes support the delivery of goods and services for a business segment; uses this understanding to accomplish own work.
• No supervisory responsibilities, but manage planning, interactions, and deliverables by outside vendors.
• Leads small projects from end-to-end, including localization & picture strategy, the overall plan of fulfillment and release, QC expectations, remediation planning & resolution recommendations, ownership of orders, review and approval of invoices, and tracking & archiving assets.
• Guarantee timely, high-quality execution across the supply chain and assist in creating detailed project plans to ensure deadlines are met and hand-offs are successful.
• Create and maintain documentation, including project plans, templates, and post-mortems.
• Effectively solves problems and roadblocks as they occur while escalating when necessary.
• Primarily focused on the execution of work with some elements of planning.
• Impacts quality of own work and periodically the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies.
• Interacts with internal and external peers or managers to exchange semi-complex information related to assigned activities.
• Serves as a critical contact with project team members to help resolve project resource conflicts.
• Communicate both detailed and high-level progress to stakeholders.
• The role will oversee the forecast and planning process for episodic, feature, bonus, shorts, trailers, artwork, or metadata to various global digital platforms, including supporting metrics.
• The role will perform extensive vendor & planning management, which may include research inventory.
• Focus on significant areas of work, typically 20% or more of the role % of the Time.
• Managing Forecast, Planning, and Internal Client Communications 80%
• Managing performance metrics 10%
• Managing stakeholder relationship 10%

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $67.54/hr

Hours: 40hr/week

Length: Temporary (12 Months)

Required Skills / Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a planning or scheduling function in either or all of a creative environment, manufacturing environment, or product development environment.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in the digital distribution space.
• Minimum of 5 years Localization experience
• Minimum of 5 years industry experience

Preferred Skills / Qualifications:

• Google Workspace proficiency
• Technical knowledge of digital video and audio formats, servicing, and localization assets used to service clients across all media types.
• Knowledge of the range of formats used within the organization.
• Individual has attained knowledge and experience in own specialty but is still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills; has knowledge of the company, its processes, and customers; still becoming fully knowledgeable/skilled in the function/specialty.
• Able to distill information accurately and convey it (verbally or written) to business partners and stakeholders.

Job Types: Contract, Temporary

Pay: $67.54 per hour

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• planning or scheduling: 5 years (Required)
• digital distribution: 5 years (Required)
• industry: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: In person