About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Producer to join our team, supporting the Development Producer in various tasks relating to the investment, execution, and impact of projects on the Minderoo Pictures slate. Reporting to the Executive Director, Minderoo Pictures, the role requires a blend of creativity, organisation, and communication skills to effectively contribute to the production team’s success.

Your day to day will include:

• Working alongside the Executive Director and Producer to identify, nurture and deliver a portfolio of production and development investments for high impact.
• Supporting all aspects of development and production investment and impact campaign planning and execution including scheduling, budgeting, project tracking, and resource management.
• Management of good grants platform and frontline of communication for production and development investment enquiries.
• Contributing to research and assessment of proposals for investment in development and production.
• Collaboration with film teams to support production and alignment with our impact ambitions.
• Assisting with administrative tasks such as maintaining files, tracking expenses, and preparing reports.
• Collaboration with Minderoo Foundation stakeholders to build understanding of creative process and their contribution of subject matter expertise and research, ensuring strategic alignment of screen projects with Minderoo Foundation goals.

Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product lifecycle approach to sustainable packaging solutions.  

Partnering with global brands to local producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture. 

Job Description

As the Manufacturing Manager at our Blacktown Dairy and Beverage site with a highly engaged team of around 30 across 3 shifts, you will own and drive value through the significant levers of safety, people, quality, efficiency, and cost.  

 With your leadership capability to “get things done” safely and effectively, you will uplift capability across the site to ensure and embed a culture of continuous improvement whilst maintaining the highest safety standards.

With a proven ability to inspire, develop and transform a strong tenured team, you will drive operational improvements across the site acting as the catalyst for change.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Demonstrate genuine safety-first leadership, leading by example and ensuring that all Company policies, procedures, and processes are adhered to, understood, and practiced
• Develop front line capabilities, continuous improvement and foster Lean manufacturing practises to achieve high performance
• Setting the overall strategy and standards for best to improve efficiency minimise production downtime
• Manage daily and weekly production schedule for achieving optimum production efficiencies and DIFOT
• Work closely with Quality/Supply Chain and Engineering to optimise production performance and ensuring operational excellence in all areas of production
• Provide leadership, coaching, support, and performance management
• Ensure all ISO, HACCP and GMP standards and practices are achieved.

Your skills and experience

• Visible belief and demonstrated leadership in driving a Zero Harm culture
•  knowledge of Lean manufacturing techniques
• Working background in manufacturing environment, which embraces operational excellence
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong & effective communication skills to lead and inspire the operations team.
• Proven background in continuous Improvement and change management experience
• Outstanding aptitude to communicate with a wide range of people coupled with coaching & development skills.
• Be outcomes focused with the ability to balance production, safety, and resources

About this opportunity

The Business Partners role is a newly created position aimed at providing ongoing support to the SM&I teams in the delivery of profitable business growth.

A key focus of this role will be to assist in driving growth initiatives, ensuring resources and the administration of projects are coordinated to optimise the delivery of product and process solutions for Viscount Reuse customers.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Provide support to the Business Manager and the wider SM&I team to assist in the delivery of growth initiatives.
• Liaise with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders on the development and delivery of new products aligned to strategic growth.
• Generate and distribute agreed reports 
• Monitor and report actual resin material price movements and communicate as required.
• Assist in identifying and commercialising material solutions aimed at broadening market opportunities (metal detectable, fire retardant, heat resistant, recycled).
• Management of customer contracts, ensuring terms and conditions contained within are reviewed and actioned
• Develop and implement processes that improve the control of labels / RFID’s / dividers from the supplier network. 
• Assist in the management of contracted design and technical resources.
• Establish and foster close working relationships with all members of the NPD cross functional teams.

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Strong communication and organisational skills. Ability to deliver the message across a wide range of stakeholders and cross functional teams.
• Negotiation and Persuasion Skills – using tact and diplomacy always, knowing when to compromise and when to take a stand, in order to persuade.
• Project Management Skills & Business Intelligence 
• Strong research and strategic analysis skills
• High competency working with Microsoft Office, SAP and Excel software.
• Circular Economy – understanding how the circular underpins everything we do and selling this message internally and externally as part of the company values and personal ethos.

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Lead and Inspire: Guide and mentor a dynamic production team, providing clear direction and feedback to bring out the best in each member.
• Creative Visionary: Collaborate closely with Craft Leads, Production Ops, and key teams to transform their vision into visually stunning collections that captivate audiences.
• Innovation Driver: Develop and enhance production strategies, finding exciting ways to engage and scale our offerings while optimising the performance of our skilled contingent workforce.
• Concept Fusion Expert: Work closely with Creative Specialists to deeply understand project concepts, objectives, and end users, incorporating tweaks into the production approach for impactful results.
• Strategic Integrator: Collaborate seamlessly with various groups and teams, ensuring the integration of creative and strategic directions in the production workflow.
• Knowledge Cultivator: Lead the maintenance of creative guidelines, ensuring knowledge alignment across content groups, and facilitate easy access to resources for future projects while staying up to date with industry trends.

You're probably a match if

• You have exceptional artistic abilities, a keen eye for detail, colour, composition, and visual storytelling across graphic design, photography, videography and illustration.
• You bring in-depth knowledge of design principles and elements craft, whether it be photos, video, or illustration.
• You’re a leader, with an ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• You’re adept at handling multiple projects and can work to tight deadlines, all while maintaining a commitment to quality.
• You have a passion for storytelling and understand how high quality production enhances the overall impact and success of a project.

About the team

Canva would not exist without content. Our templates, photos, fonts, stock media and more play a critical and pivotal role in empowering our users to design anything and publish anywhere. Content has far reaching business impact and is a key driver of user acquisition, retention and revenue

The Content Creative team’s mission is to build the most valuable content library in the world to inspire our users to create their next design. We work collaboratively across the Content & Discovery group, and other groups to identify & implement opportunities to drive user engagement through content. This group will be focused on developing the world’s most inspiring and valuable library of photos, videos, animations, illustrations, graphics, fonts, and more. Working to ensure that our content is Truly Local, the Content Creative sub-group has a global remit to create and acquire the most relevant, high quality content from around the world.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually. 

Day to day will look like but won’t be limited to:

• Collaborate with shoot crews to identify and assess potential venues.
• Manage locations to meet production standards.
• Work closely with the Unit Manager to plan and book travel, including allowances, flights, and accommodation.
• Track budgets and reconcile expenses.
• Update databases for shoot locations, crew, passports, and allowances.
• Set up projects in Avid, ingest and sync rushes.
• Source and ingest footage for the edit team.
• Run autocue for introduction recordings
• Source and book actors and props for recreation shoots.