Role: Integrated Project Manager- 12 months FTC

Location:Cape Town, South Africa (hybrid)

ROLE MISSION:

Join our dynamic team as an Integrated Project Manager, where you'll have the opportunity to drive creative adaptation media production for a leading fashion brand. Working from one of our regional satellite studios, you’ll be instrumental in delivering projects for numerous markets in 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 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 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.

 WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE: 

• 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.
• Support 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.
• 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 adn notifying all relevant stakeholders.
• Champion automation and future-facing ways of working.

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL : 

• 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.

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots 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 VALUES

We are a company built on our values; we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.