26.04.2024
Integrated Project Manager FTC (12-18 months)
Oliver UK Group
South Africa, Durban
Role: Integrated Project Manager FTC (12-18 months)Location:Cape Town, South Africa (Hybrid)ROLE MISSIONWorking in partnership with our client, the Integrated Project Manager will have the opportunity to drive creative adaptation media production for a leading fashion brand, based in the client'sregional satellite studio, servicing numerous markets in region.The Integrated project Manager understands the complexities of global brand campaign production cycles and has a comprehensive knowledge of universal print and moving image terminology. You will possess experience across POS, OOH, Social Media, Online Video, TV and Cinema production, specifications and best practice. As a pivotal member of our team, you will assess upcoming campaign volumes and scope, reviewing SLA timings plans created by the Regional Producer, adapting where necessary to meet the nuanced lead times of the markets in your region to meet key milestones.You will review global and local pipeline activations across print and moving image channels and assessing resource requirements ahead of time, ensuring campaigns are briefed to the creative team in a timely and accurate manner, identifying production overlaps and relaying regular status updates the Regional Producer.As the Integrated Project Manager, you will motivate your direct team to excel in their roles and ensure effective communication across regional teams, aligning on overarching objectives. The Integrated Project manager oversees the end-to-end production, actively tracking key milestones such as translation requests, in market price validation, client approvals and delivery, ensuring creative teams are working efficiently, managing status, risks and challenges of all the campaign deliverables and resource, escalating production issues to the Regional Producer. A vital responsibility will be quality control, a keen eye and comprehensive understanding of brand guidelines is essential to delivery precision. The integrated Project Manager will be responsible for final delivery of campaign assets, performing a full pre-delivery audit of all files ensuring all relevant stakeholders receive proof of delivery.THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...You’re someone who thrives on shared successes, especially as part of a team that’s making waves with innovative processes & high-volume delivery. Your organisational and communication skills set you apart from the crowd. You are methodical and take pride in being able to apply agile methodologies to the task at hand, adapting accordingly based on your ability to foresee risk.You’ll be the kind of person who is driven by producing large volume multi-media campaigns, and understands how to plan, track and execute multiple projects simultaneously.You’ll have experience across print and moving image with a comprehensive knowledge of common specs, ratios, resource needs and final deliverable output formats.You’ll already be an Integrated Project Manager looking for bigger challenges on a larger account where you can hone your existing skills and cultivate new ones.ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOININGReporting to the Regional Producer, you'll collaborate closely with regional teams, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders driving impactful content production.WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLECreating bespoke timelines based on channel and market specific lead times.Briefing creative studio on campaign specifics, timings, and scope.Holding daily stand-ups with creative team for live status tracking.Communicating translation, creative adaptation, approvals and approval deadlines to relevant stakeholders.Proactively assessing resource needs upstream to identify potential shortfall.Conducting real time risk assessment, providing a campaign feedback loop to the Regional Producer, ensuring they are properly informed on status.Build and nurture strong relationships with key stakeholders such a Media Agencies.Support the Regional Producer on project planning, status, risks, and challenges.Triage any production issues from creative team, escalating to the Regional Producer and Channel Leads.Oversee digital and print campaigns covering owned and bought media, managing multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.Drive precise campaign execution, monitoring progress, controlling deadlines, engaging relevant stakeholders and ensuring successful delivery.Lead daily stand-up calls with offshore teams, ensuring production is on track and providing an escalation point to the studio manager/PMs.Review global campaigns, familiarise yourself with forecast data, to drive foresight of production.Assess resource needs for out-of-scope projects supporting Regional Producer in producing resource and cost estimates.Ensure brand guardianship of local briefs and global guideline changes, while rolling out local campaigns in the sales market and re-iterating local SLAs.Perform robust QC on all deliverables ensuring all are produced on brand, taking ownership of any piece of creative submitted to the client for review.Final delivery of campaign deliverables to media vendors and notifying all relevant stakeholders.Champion automation and future-facing ways of working.WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL5+ years of relevant experience in digital, print and motion, covering owned and bought media.Experience working with multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.Demonstrated production experience on global brands with line management experienceStrong account & project management skills, with experience managing onsite and offshore teams.Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.Proven ability to drive successful campaign production lifecycles, with an ability to assess risk in real time adapt using agile methodology.Proficiency forecasting, resource management and project burn rate.Keen eye for detail and commitment to innovation and new business growth.ABOUT OUR COMPANYLots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.OUR VALUESWe are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.BeAmbitiousto succeedBeImaginativeto push the boundaries of what’s possibleBeInspirationalto do groundbreaking workBealways learningand listening to understandBeResults-focusedto exceed expectationsBe actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creationsFollow us onInstagram oliver.talentJob Id: 9101#LI-Onsite #LI-ZS1#J-18808-Ljbffr
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