Art Buyer / Producer - T1376341-DN_46528583812_12-4658

at Beacon Hill Staffing Group in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

• Attending creative service status meetings, and work in progress reviews, and reviewing concepts to anticipate execution requirements.
• Sourcing suppliers - liaising with existing agency suppliers and sourcing third parties for the purchase of e.g. static imagery. Making supplier, casting and image recommendations and managing internal and client sign offs. Leading all conversations with external suppliers of moving or static images.
• Managing the art buying timings - checking the suppliers, creative team and client availability for production and approvals, generating timings and monitoring progress
• Negotiating rates and rights, generating internal estimates and purchase orders, monitoring budget utilization to ensure profitability
• Liaising with creative services to arrange briefing meetings with pre-production, creative team, photographers etc. and clients.
• Managing sign offs and approvals of images. Keeping the team informed on progress of projects in production.
• Effectively negotiating rates, rights and timings internally and externally.
• Creating, circulating and gaining internal and external approvals of all briefs, call sheets, approval forms and associated art buying administration.
• Uploading all files and, managing version control of all raw and final images.