Integrated Project Manager FTC (12-18 months)
Oliver Agency
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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.
- 5+ 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.
- Proficiency forecasting, resource management and project burn rate.
- Keen eye for detail and commitment to innovation and new business growth.