Integrated Project Manager FTC (12 - 18 months)Cape Town, South Africa
Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world's first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
About the role:Working in partnership with our client, the Integrated Project Manager will have the opportunity to drive creative adaptation media production for our Global brand accounts. Working from one of our regional satellite studios, you'll be instrumental in delivering projects for numerous markets in the region. Reporting to the Regional Producer, you'll collaborate closely with regional teams, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders driving impactful content production.
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 assess 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 to the Regional Producer.
As 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 resources, 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 the final delivery of campaign assets, performing a full pre-delivery audit of all files ensuring all relevant stakeholders receive proof of delivery.
What you will be doing:Creating 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.Building and nurturing strong relationships with key stakeholders such as Media Agencies.Supporting 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.Overseeing digital and print campaigns covering owned and bought media, managing multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.Driving precise campaign execution, monitoring progress, controlling deadlines, engaging relevant stakeholders and ensuring successful delivery.Supporting the Producer on daily stand-up calls with offshore teams, ensuring production is on track and providing an escalation point to the studio manager/PMs.Reviewing global campaigns, familiarising yourself with forecast data, to drive foresight of production.Assessing resource needs for out-of-scope projects supporting Regional Producer in producing resource and cost estimates.Ensuring brand guardianship of local briefs and global guideline changes, while rolling out local campaigns in the sales market and re-iterating local SLAs.Performing 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.Championing automation and future-facing ways of working.What you need to be great in this role:4+ 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 experience.Strong 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.Proficient forecasting, resource management and project burn rate.Keen eye for detail and commitment to innovation and new business growth.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.
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