Project Manager, Graphic Production - Hogarth Worldwide
Sunnyvale, CA
About the Job
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.
A Hybrid working model
Now offices are fully open we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, something we hope will provide everyone much more flexibility to their working week. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for about 50% of the time for most people. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.
What does a Project Manager, Graphic Production does at Hogarth?
We are looking for a Project Manager to join our Graphic Production Services (GPS) department and support teams of production artists responsible for creating deliverables for product launches and updates. The ideal candidate will have exceptional project management skills, deep understanding of production process and project lifecycles. Established organizational and leadership skills with an eye for detail, and a results-oriented and positive attitude.
Key responsibilities:
- Coordinate the workloads of graphic production artists, ensuring they have all the information required for art-working/build
- Work closely with producers, traffic, design, development, content management, and international teams to deliver on project goals and timelines
- Resource allocation planning taking into account skill set, time and plan of record
- Communicate with Team Leads to ensure optimum use of resources
- Weekly/daily reporting to Production Manager on team capacity and escalate any risks
- Partner with Producers to monitor milestones during the various stages to ensure project is staying on schedule; be aware of project constraints that could affect production workloads (schedule / scope / resources)
- Partner with the team to operationalize tools to analyze and track metrics around utilization and capacity planning
- Partner closely with Production Manager to determine additional reporting needs
Requirements:
- 7+ years experience in a hands-on, high-volume and fast paced production environment (or equivalent)
- Solid understanding of project lifecycle and process: able to understand complex project requirements, and recognize potential risks and dependencies across resourcing and projects
- Experience in a traffic, resource and project management role within a creative, technical or production agency environment
- Ability to multi-task as it relates to priorities, timings, scope, resourcing, briefing, validation, scheduling, reporting, GEO localization and transcreation
- Excellent written and verbal communicator with engaging interpersonal skills and ability to bond well with client and internal teams
- Ability to understand projects briefs, digest information and support in project kick off within relevant teams
- Ability to handle multiple projects within tight deadlines, effectively problem-solve, and manage expectations accordingly
- Able to cultivate relationships with key stakeholders and collaborate to ensure project goals are met and ensure efficient handoffs are carried out
- Solid understanding and command of project management tools & software
- Knowledge of production process required. Experience in design, advertising, or interactive a plus
- Thrives in a challenging, fast-paced environment; works well under pressure
- Resourceful, adaptable, and results-oriented with high energy and a positive attitude
- Expert user of spreadsheet tools and experience rolling-out new systems and championing adoption amongst teams a plus
At Hogarth California, the base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $65 to $81 per hour. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here(opens in a new tab) for more details
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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. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.
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