Project Manager - Hogarth Melbourne

Job Description

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience. What you’ll do The Project Manager is a critical role, representing the Hogarth business and collaborating closely with distributed Hogarth teams across the AU and APAC region in the delivery of world-class Comms and Press materials for our automotive client. Working closely with internal stakeholders, particularly Creative and Production, your primary tasks will include organising and coordinating schedules, distributing workload, tracking progress of projects. Operating at the centre of the delivery team, you’ll be managing internal and external timelines, expectations, and task prioritisation at a campaign project level, ensuring projects across PR, Communications, and localisation work for our client's IMG (APAC region) and Australian marketing teams. With high levels of attention to detail, you’ll be the administrative champion of the team - responsible for ensuring production workflows are properly defined and adhered to, while maintaining high levels of communication and ensuring high production values at all times. You’ll be passionate about the communications and advertising world, and take pride in ensuring projects are produced to a high standard and are delivered both on time and within agreed budget. Whilst your base of work will be a Hogarth/WPP office, you will be required to work from the client’s office 1 to 2 days per week. Reporting lines This role reports to the Content Lead, and will be based in Melbourne. It is a member of Hogarth’s Content Studios team. What you'll do Project & Account Management Coordinate and ensure all parties follow the agreed workflows and manage them through the process Ensure that there is clear division and allocation of workload among team members Ensure that trackers are updated at all times Monitor timelines and manage client expectations Advise line manager on resource gaps and flag potential issues Ensure account delivers consistently against all contractual obligations including SLAs and KPIs Identify bottlenecks/pain points for the validation network, suggest resolution and advise Validator Network Management Review and organise team workloads to be achievable and efficient, create a balanced work schedule and ensure work is of high standards and delivered on time Flag any potential team issues to the line manager and be actively involved in finding a solution Highlight and resolve quality control issues with the network What you'll bring Likely to have at least 4 years Project Management/Client Management background in an ad agency or in-house creative department or language service agency Experience managing multi-market projects Experience working on global brands, ideally across all media, including print, interactive and film Experience working on localisation or linguistic projects will be a bonus Demonstrable experience managing total creative workflow, i.e., internal briefing, briefing to vendors/studios, managing key milestones/deadlines, presentations/internal approvals, executions, delivery Self-driven, organised and have an eye for detail Proficient with technology and tools Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in high-pressure situations and tight time frames A hands-on, can-do approach to solving problems Diversity & Inclusion Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. #J-18808-Ljbffr