Role: Integrated Project Manager (advertising/production) - 18-month FTC

Location:Hamburg, Germany (hybrid)

ROLE MISSION

Join our dynamic team as an Integrated Project Manager (Producer), where you'll lead production efforts for a leading fashion brand, based in Hamburg, one of the key brand cities. Reporting to the Regional Account Lead, you'll closely collaborate with global and regional teams, prioritizing strong stakeholder relationships and driving impactful content production. As the Integrated Project Manager (Producer), you possess expertise in global brand campaign production cycles, emphasizing your passion for crafting engaging creative across various media platforms. Your role requires a deep understanding of the production and delivery processes for both print and digital media. You'll spearhead project management, assessing campaign volumes, and scoping while reviewing production schedules and providing direction to Satellite Studio Project Managers. Your role involves tailoring bespoke timings based on local market lead times and resource availability. You'll maintain close coordination with the Satellite Studio Manager to ensure adherence to campaign milestones, quality standards, and timely delivery. As a motivating force within the team, you'll inspire your direct reports to excel in their roles, while facilitating effective communication across global and regional teams to align with overarching production objectives. Acting as the central point of contact, you'll relay status updates, risks, and challenges of all campaign deliverables, including budget and resource considerations, while escalating production issues to the Regional and Channel Leads. 

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.
• Unexpected turns energise you, and you take challenges head-on, inspiring your entire team to find solutions and stay the course. Your positive spirit keeps your sleeves rolled up, always ready to seize every opportunity.  
• You’ll be the kind of person who is driven by producing large volume multi-media campaigns curating timelines and motivating your team ensure high quality creative delivered with maximum efficiency.
• You’ll be confident with clients and thinks on their feet. You relish adding value throughout the end-to-end creative process, adding your unique touch at every turn.  
• Ideally, you’ll have experience in large-scale accounts in FMCG industries, such as Beauty or Fashion and experience across multiple channels – because we do the lot, from TV to DOOH to press to 121 to display, social and content. 
• You’ll already be a Producer 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

• Central Europe account for 5 markets, including Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, based in Hamburg
• Create production timelines according to SLA’s, build pipeline campaign forecasts to identify production peaks to resource PMs accordingly.
• Brief PMs campaign specifics, timings and scope.
• Oversee and sign off PMs adapted timings based on local market nuance.
• Track regional pre-production tasks such as translations, price validation, global master approvals and market participation.
• Escalate resource shortfalls to Regional Lead and channel specialists.
• Oversee and track PMs delivery progress, feed status reports to regional and channel leads.
• Build and nurture strong relationships with key stakeholders such a Media Agencies.
• Support Regional Account Lead on project planning, status, risks, and challenges.
• Lead regional production, localisation & delivery, ensuring direction, control, and effective communication throughout the process.
• Oversee digital and print campaigns covering owned and bought media, managing multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.
• Provide PM team leadership, line managing up to 3 reports.
• Drive campaign execution, and closure, monitoring progress, controlling deadlines, engaging relevant stakeholders and ensuring successful delivery.
• Support the Regional Lead to produce data-lead monthly reporting and strategic QBRs, as well as support across invoicing and out-of-scope work.
• 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.
• Support the Regional Lead on campaign kick-off calls, assisting on out-of-scope and out-of-guideline conversations as needed.
• Ensure brand guardianship of local briefs and global guideline changes, while rolling out local campaigns in the sales market and re-iterating local SLAs.
• Support Regional Lead with cost estimates for additional resource where needed.
• Champion automation and future-facing ways of working. 

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

• 7-8+ 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.

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

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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.