Associate Talent Manager

Disney Disney · Media · Mumbai, India

Associate Talent Manager responsible for managing ILM artists, including crewing, scheduling, performance, career progression, and addressing people issues. Works closely with Producers, Studio Production Managers, HR, and Recruitment to ensure artist needs are met for projects within the VFX industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. In conjunction with Sr Talent Manager(s) - manage artist crewing and scheduling for specific departments. Responsible for the artists day to day in regards to queries, absence, performance, timecards, annual reviews, career progression, next show opportunities and contract extensions.
  2. Working closely with the Sr Talent Manager(s)/ Director of Talent and HR when people issues arise and escalating these effectively.
  3. Through weekly CG Status meetings and department specific meetings, maintains regular contact with Shows to ensure that crewing needs are met.
  4. Maintains overview of utilisation using established departmental production management and tracking systems.
  5. Working closely with the Sr Talent Manager(s), maintains an overall schedule for digital artists. Creates - and maintains scheduling overviews and availability schedules upon request.

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrate the ability to learn quickly
  • High levels of self-motivation and proactiveness as well as reactiveness
  • Demonstrable ability to interact well with groups of individuals with different personalities, perspectives and talents
  • Proven analytical skills, effective scheduling and time management abilities
  • Proactive and pragmatic approach to problem-solving with an ability to create process and useful data with ambiguous information
  • Excellent administrative, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Computer skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Suite

Nice to have

  • Previous experience in VFX industry in a scheduling or other relevant role or other high-end computer graphics production environment
  • Proven experience of people/artist management
  • Knowledge of computer graphics terminology and a thorough understanding of the processes involved in CG post production

What the JD emphasized

  • Previous experience in VFX industry in a scheduling or other relevant role or other high-end computer graphics production environment preferred
  • Proven experience of people/artist management
  • Knowledge of computer graphics terminology and a thorough understanding of the processes involved in CG post production
  • Must be able to work quickly and effectively to turn around reports and analysis in a timely manner