Project Manager (6 Months Contract)

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, 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 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.

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 100,000 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. We're 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.

The Company

Hogarth Worldwide (HWW) is a fast growing division of WPP group. HWW is headquartered in London but is present in many markets around the world, working through three global hubs (Singapore, New York and London) and with customer service and production facilities in multiple countries across every continent.

HWW is an expert provider of marketing communications and advertising production services across Broadcast, Print and Digital media with a full suite of services that can take a creative advertising or promotional concept and deliver it, translated and culturally adapted, in whatever the required medium into every target market in the world, with better turnaround times, higher quality, more functional technology and more effective return on production investment than any competitive offering.

Our clients are the world's leading brands in consumer goods, financial services, automotive and electronics and we therefore compete in markets that demand the absolute highest standards of quality, customer care, reliability and value.

Culturally, we seek to combine the entrepreneurial enthusiasm and creativity of an agency start up with the standards and delivery of a world-class professional services business.

We are a culturally diverse organization in a period of transition. We currently have around 2,300 full time employees representing the results of 8 years of continuous growth since start up.

The Role:

The Project Manager works closely with both internal and client Producer, as well as our Studio to create and execute required localized content, including reviewing content for cultural viability in Southeast Asia region. The Project Manager coordinates with various teams as well as third party vendors to execute project deliverables. This role will be on 6 Months contract and will need to start in June 2025.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Hogarth teams to ensure work is briefed in accurately
• Analyse tickets and identify localisation requirements / WW deadline / live date and indicate additional instructions on the ticket
• Upload assets into the appropriate project folder
• Coordinate with internal teams on ticket specifications and provide clarification if required
• Discuss with Client Producer and Hogarth Producer the weekly status of projects noting down milestones (Loc, Int, ISV dates) and flag any potential delays
• Coordinate with Hogarth Project Managers for project requirements and resource availability, assigning tasks to required based on the timeline
• Plan resources needed based on workload, coordinating with translator, creative director and editor resources after confirmation of availability from Transcreation account manager
• Create and manage accounts for any new resource
• Propose a cost estimate based on scope provided by Hogarth Producer for quarterly production costs and retainers as well as scope gathered from tickets raised.
• Work with the finance team to track and reconcile estimated work and actual work produced on a weekly basis
• Maintain a matrix listing down deliverables and number of projects done in a month based on project name and budget usage
• Create project trackers and ensure timesheets are filled in commensurate to the amount of work done

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years experience in project management and/or account manager working on graphic production/photo producing projects
• Flexible, creative, solution-oriented individual with experience in using Adobe Creative Suite's Photoshop
• Knowledge of image and production specific needs for image reproduction including web site builds, POS, Motion Graphics and email marketing
• Accuracy, excellent memory and an eye for detail
• Ability to work in a fast paced, demanding, creative, and production environment. Flexibility is key to this role as well as working beyond the 9:00-17:30 framework and occasionally on weekends
• Able to start in June 2025 and keen to commit for 6 months contract

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