Project Manager
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Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP Hogarth partners with one in every two of the worlds top 100 brands including CocaCola Ford Rolex Nestl 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 7500 craft and technology experts brings together creative production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and everchanging world of todays content experience.
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people planet clients and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries with corporate headquarters in New York London and Singapore. WPP is a world leader in marketing services with deep AI data and technology capabilities global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.Our people are the key to our success. Were committed to fostering a culture of creativity belonging and continuous learning attracting and developing the brightest talent and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.
Project Manager
The Company:
Hogarth Worldwide is a leading creative production company producing advertising and marketing content for many of the worlds most famous brands across all media around the world. Hogarth was founded 10 years ago and has grown from a startup to over 4000 people across 28 cities worldwide and is now part of the WPP family. Our rapid growth continues to drive us forward making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.
The Role:
The Senior Project Manager is the primary daytoday contact with the Client Marcom team and works closely with their Producers Project Managers Image Producers Print Production Manager and Channel Sales Program (CSP) Managers to implement channel campaigns in Chennai India.
What does the P&D team do at Hogarth
- The Print & Distribution (P&D) team are responsible for the production and distribution management of printed merchandising materials for new store openings and new product launches across one of Hogarths clients Channel partners in EMEA.
Reporting lines and key stakeholders
- This is a clientfacing role. The P&D Project Manager reports to P&D Team Lead working closely with the Channel Studio team and Localisation Project Managers. The P&D Project Manager has no direct reports.
Experience / requirements
- Experience working on global retail and/or shopper accounts from creative development to final production. Relevant merchandising demand planning or print production / localization experience a must logistics experience incredibly beneficial
- Advanced excel skills compulsory (complex formulas large database management dashboards pivot wizard etc. VBA advantageous but not required)
- Excellent communication skills written and verbal
- Able to understand and take ownership of templates and processes with a willingness and determination to continually improve / automate workflows
- Attention to detail analytical thinking ability and passion for the work are essential
- The ability to prioritize and work quickly and efficiently within very tight time frames
- Calm under pressure with a positive attitude
- A handson cando approach to solving problems
- Enthusiastic about working in a dynamic and incredibly fastpaced environment
- Able to work weekends and longer hours during time constrained projects 23 times per year
What does the P&D Project Manager do
- Key part of P&D campaigns from client brief through to delivery completion
- Responsible for allocating correct merchandising materials to stores at an individual level based on the clients strategy
- Maintain a database of client stores and individual allocations used for validating merchandising orders for each campaign
- Be involved in the dispatch schedule planning at an individual country level based off of product availability dates historical transit times and vendor capacity / resource
- Attend daily status calls with P&D team and studio to ensure all projects are tracking as expected
- Track vendor spend against budget by ensuring 100 accuracy of finance trackers recording vendor quotes and flagging to P&D team lead when actual spend is close to budget
- Main point of contact for any client and vendor queries working analytically & creatively using teamwork innovation and excellence to propose solutions and ensure swift resolution avoiding further escalation to P&D team lead
- Work with your teammates to build a hindsight report after every campaign outlining elements that worked well / didnt work so well and areas for improvement across vendor client and internal processes
- Demonstrate expertise in the delivery of projects through management of client expectations internal processes and crossfunctional department involvement
- Immerse yourself in the clients brand and offering
- Set and manage client expectations ensuring they follow the agreed workflows
- Build strong trusting relationships with all key stakeholders eg. function leads cross functional producers senior managers and 3rd party vendors that are directly involved with the work
- Write prepare and present documents presentations and reports where required
- Maintain all SLAs and look to exceed them wherever possible
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