What are the responsibilities and job description for the Marketing Production Manager position at Fanatics Retail Group Fulfillment, LLC?
Marketing Production Manager
Job Responsibilities & Qualifications
The Marketing Production Manager will play a critical role in overseeing and optimizing the execution of creative marketing projects. This position requires strong leadership, exceptional organizational skills, and a solutions-oriented mindset to manage complex workflows in a fast-paced creative environment. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, thrives on meeting deadlines, and excels at coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure seamless production and delivery of marketing assets.
Success in this role requires the ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives while proactively solving challenges and improving processes. This individual will own production schedules, oversee asset management, and drive operational efficiencies, ensuring marketing campaigns launch on time and with excellence. Experience in marketing production, creative operations, or project management is essential, as is the ability to collaborate with senior marketing leaders, vendors, and external partners to execute projects at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and optimize creative production workflows, ensuring seamless execution and timely delivery of marketing assets across multiple channels.
- Lead project tracking and reporting, leveraging tools like Motion, Trello, or Asana to monitor progress, remove roadblocks, and align stakeholders.
- Drive operational efficiencies by refining production processes, improving timelines, and identifying areas for automation or optimization.
- Oversee asset management, ensuring version control, file organization, and adherence to brand guidelines.
- Coordinate large-scale content production efforts, including photoshoots, video shoots, and campaign asset creation.
- Act as the primary liaison for cross-functional teams, agencies, and vendors, ensuring alignment and clear communication on project requirements.
- Monitor resource allocation and budget tracking, ensuring production costs align with financial targets.
- Develop scalable workflows and best practices to support ongoing marketing production needs.
- Provide leadership and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a culture of efficiency, collaboration, and innovation.
Required Qualifications:
- 3 years of experience in marketing production, creative operations, or project management roles.
- Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Motion, Trello, Asana) and creative platforms (e.g., Adobe Creative Cloud).
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, with a strong ability to influence and collaborate cross-functionally.
- Experience working with agencies, vendors, and external partners to execute production tasks.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Education and/or experience in sports, retail, or e-commerce industries.
- Familiarity with creative workflows, asset management tools, and digital marketing channels.
- Understanding of budgeting and resource allocation in a production environment.
- Prior experience guiding or mentoring junior team members.
About Us
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
About the Team
Fanatics Commerce is a leading designer, manufacturer, and seller of licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods. It operates a vertically-integrated platform of digital and physical capabilities for leading sports leagues, teams, colleges, and associations globally – as well as its flagship site, www.fanatics.com.
Fanatics Commerce has a broad range of online, sports venue, and vertical apparel partnerships worldwide, including comprehensive partnerships with leading leagues, teams, colleges, and sports organizations across the world—including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Formula 1, and Australian Football League (AFL); the Dallas Cowboys, Golden State Warriors, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, Chelsea FC, and Tokyo Giants; the University of Notre Dame, University of Alabama, and University of Texas; the International Olympic Committee (IOC), England Rugby, and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
At Fanatics Commerce, we infuse our BOLD Leadership Principles in everything we do:
- Build Championship Teams
- Obsessed with Fans
- Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit
- Determined and Relentless Mindset
