VFX Consultant-Vendor Management & Delivery (Feature Films)

Vendor Costing, Pipeline & Delivery

Location - Kochi / remote, with vendor-site and review attendance as required

Duration - 3-6 months, renewable

The role

We commission feature VFX from external studios. This role independently vets what those studios quote — scope, effort, rates, schedule — and then owns the client-side relationship through production: pipeline and turnover standards, day-to-day vendor communication, and holding vendors to schedule, spec and quality until final delivery.

Costing and delivery sit with one person deliberately: whoever challenges a bid should be accountable for whether it was achievable. The consultant advises us as a client and must hold no commercial ties to bidding vendors.

Responsibilities

Bid vetting and award

• Review quotes at shot, sequence and asset level: man-days by discipline, seniority mix, iteration allowance, supervision overheads, render and licence costs.

• Identify padding, missing scope, unrealistic schedules and unpriced dependencies — plates, on-set data,



delivery specs.

• Maintain internal rate cards and cost-per-shot benchmarks; flag deviation in both directions.

• Test vendor capability against claims — headcount, render capacity, security readiness, subcontracting — and treat an under-priced bid as a risk, not a win.

• Produce comparison matrices and a written award recommendation; support negotiation with technical arguments and viable de-scopes.

• Review SOWs, assumptions and exclusions, change-order and overage terms with legal and procurement.

Pipeline and turnover

• Set hand-off standards in both directions: plates, resolutions, colour space and LUTs, naming conventions, EDL/XML turnover packages, camera and on-set data.

• Ensure vendor pipelines interoperate — essential where sequences split across studios or assets are reused between them.

• Own cross-vendor asset and version control, so nothing is built, or paid for, twice.

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