Producer, Team Sports

Position Overview
The primary objective of a Producer at SEGA Europe is to account manage and project manage both our internal and external studios to ensure that SEGA Europe Limited delivers quality product to its consumer base on time and on budget. This role will focus on Football Management Games developed by Sports Interactive.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Account manage development studios to build and maintain a successful relationship with SEGA Europe Limited
- Work closely with each development studio and define level of management and support required on a title-by-title, studio-by-studio, deal-by-deal basis
- To project manage each product ensuring a consistent approach for all SEGA Europe Limited products
- To report on progress of development internally and escalate issues as required
- To monitor and manage the P&L and cost infrastructure of products as required
- To produce research and help to run focus group for products or genres as required
- To work with legal and licensing on licensing requirements of products to ensure licenses are agreed to and abided by through the product life cycle
- To act as a 'sales person' internally with sales and marketing departments, and promote the strengths of products from pre-production through product lifecycle
- Work closely with Marketing to position and create strategic direction for products from pre-production stages
- Work closely with Marketing through the product life cycle to ensure that all marketing requirements are planned and deliver in line with the product marketing strategy
- To be involved in the new products process and evaluate games submissions and concepts in commercial terms.


KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Proven ability with working on multiple titles at any given time
- Recent experience of multiplatform development
- Strong account management and project management skills
- Extensive experience in games development including production/development of AAA titles
- Manage product approval process – presentations to senior management on the return on investment of new product
- Strong relationship building skills
- Good communication and problem solving skills
- Commercial and financial awareness
- Strong verbal and numeric reporting skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Knowledge of key consumer groups within Europe
- Knowledge of competitor products and sales trends within the industry
- Ability to be visionary with the product, be creative and work closely with marketing on the positioning of titles
- Knowledge and experience of PC and console games development, including a fundamentalunderstanding of games technology, art development and games design.
- An ability to evaluate games from a commercial versus personal focus.