Global Associate Producer

Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe is a leading global publisher, developer and distributor of entertainment content for platforms including, but not limited to, all major video game consoles and PC.

Part of the Japanese Bandai Namco group, we are known for bringing many entertainment's top franchises to market such as PAC-MAN, GUNDAM, TEKKEN, ACE COMBAT, DARK SOULS, and ELDEN RING, as well as European led projects such as LITTLE NIGHTMARES.

Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe has 15 international offices with operations in 50 countries and is headquartered in Lyon, France’s capital of gastronomy, located at the intersection of two rivers, creating a lively peninsula at its center.

Our company's motto is ‘Fun for all into the future’, join Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe’s family now to be part of that journey

**Poste**:
Within Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe Headquarters, you will join the Little Nightmares team under the responsibility of the Global Producer.

You are responsible for supporting the Global Producer in managing the product development from concept until release, keeping in constant contact with developers, internal functional teams and publisher representatives and addressing concerns in a timely manner, as well as maintaining all project-related documents and schedules.

Your main responsibilities include (non-exhaustive list):

- Support the project in collaboration with the development teams (external/internal, main developers and porting companies)
- Support the project in collaboration with internal teams (Marketing, QA, Localization, Release Management, Engineering, Printed Materials, Operations, etc.)
- Support the project in collaboration with other subsidiaries of Bandai Namco group: BNEI, BNEA, BNE Asia for worldwide released titles
- Support the creation and maintenance of detailed schedule in collaboration with all teams involved on the project
- Support the milestone review and approval process
- Support the creation and maintenance of reporting on the project
- Support the financial tracking of the project: production costs, payments, budget tracking, landing, P&L, liaise with Finance if requested by his/her hierarchical supervisor
- Coordinate and track activities and assets to ensure that project tasks are completed on time
- Support to identify risks and the impact on projects and keep scope of the project in line with budget and schedule
- Support to identify and resolve conflicts between schedule, budget and quality
- Co-ordinate the build process and delivery of versions to QA, Localization, PR and rating agencies
- Support the management of EMEA ratings and questionnaires in coordination with QA and local offices and make sure that other regions are on track for their ratings in the scope of a worldwide release
- Support the expertise for development teams on upcoming projects or concepts, positioning, age target and adaptation to European market
- Provide technical support to Marketing, liaise with studios for Marketing builds

**Profil**:

- At least 5 years of industry experience including previous experience as Associate Producer with significant responsibilities and on released titles
- Experience coordinating product development efforts with functional teams, such as Engineering, Localization, Printed Materials, Quality Assurance, Public Relations, Sales, and Marketing, throughout a complete production cycle and across multiple studios
- Bachelor's degree in project management, design, engineering, or related discipline required.
- Fluent English is mandatory
- Excellent organizational, problem solving and project management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Very strong initiative with a desire to learn and be challenged
- Team spirit
- Calm under pressure
- Adequate knowledge of the various technologies used in the video games development (3D environment, etc.).
- Excellent knowledge of product development and production cycle
- Excellent knowledge of consoles, video games genres and their market
- Strong project management practices and software including Project, Excel, PowerPoint and Word

**Autres informations**:
**Sounds interesting?**

**Additional Information**

Job location: 15 rue Félix Mangini, 69009 Lyon - France / This position is not eligible to full remote

Start date: asap

Contract: full-time fixed-term contract (one month renewable)

Benefits: flexible working hours, 2 teleworking days per week, lunch vouchers, profit sharing, reimbursement of public transportation costs, work council advantages (gift vouchers, discount on services...), nice building with various facilities (gym room, gaming room, nap room, car / bike / scooter parking, cafeteria and coffee corners )