Creative Senior Producer / Executive Producer

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You know that feeling when the edit lands perfectly? When a pitch deck makes the room lean forward? When a shoot wraps and everyone knows something special just happened?  We're looking for the person who lives for that feeling. 

The Role 

Havas Village Australia is hiring a Senior Producer / Executive Producer to lead our production capability from Melbourne, with national reach across the Village network. Equal parts maker, storyteller, new business weapon, and calm centre of gravity when everything is moving fast. 

We're looking for a Senior Producer or EP who is as comfortable rolling up their sleeves on a fast-turnaround content shoot as they are steering a high-budget TVC through post. This is a hands-on leadership role sitting within our in-house production company, responsible for driving the quality, efficiency, and culture of everything we produce. 

You'll be the operational backbone of the production team, owning workflows and processes while staying close to the work itself. You don't hand things off and walk away. You know when to lead, when to support, and when to be hands-on to get the job done yourself. 

What You'll Do 

Some weeks you're building proposals that win rooms. Others you're on set, across budgets, timelines, crews and the thousand small decisions that separate good production from great. You'll need to love new business - not tolerate it, love it. The energy, the theatre, the satisfaction of turning creative into a plan that makes a client say yes. 

You'll oversee the end-to-end production of a diverse project slate, ensuring every job is delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest creative standard. Day to day, that means: 

• Managing production workflows and resourcing across the team, building and refining processes that keep projects moving without sacrificing quality 

• Owning production budgets from initial scope through to final reconciliation, building the P&L discipline and financial visibility the department needs to scale  

• Acting as the senior point of contact for creative, account, and client stakeholders 

• Working closely with directors, editors, and production crew to maintain excellence and troubleshoot problems before they escalate, on-set and from behind the scenes 

• Setting the standard for how the team operates, from briefing and scheduling through to wrap and delivery 

• Stepping into an EP capacity on larger projects, while remaining hands-on as a creative producer when the job calls for it 

• Managing supplier relationships and contributing actively to new business 

And you'll need to be steady. Production is chaos managed beautifully. When timelines compress and three things need you at once, you're the person the team looks to. Not because you have all the answers, but because you don't panic, you prioritise, and you move.