Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Senior Project Manager
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
About the role:
We are seeking a visionary Integrated Project Manager renowned for their outstanding work in the CPG sector to join our dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity to elevate our brand's presence and impact across Europe.
Our ideal candidate will excel in both integrated creative and high-volume adaptation work ensuring compliance, consistency, and competitiveness. We deliver across the purchase funnel producing broadcast, social, ecomm assets. As the Senior Project Manager, you will manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring the brand consistency and quality from the initial concept through to execution and delivery. Experience in CPG and integrated comms is essential, along with proficiency in utilizing the necessary tools and software to manage complex projects efficiently.
This role offers the chance to work with iconic CPG brands as we launch a groundbreaking new global hub based in South Africa. By integrating automation and AI, we aim to revolutionize content creation and set new digital standards for the CPG consumer experiences.
What you will be doing:
- Overall responsible for integrated campaigns working with the Account Lead to deliver a high volume of localized assets, ensuring alignment with client objectives and brand guidelines.
- Support Regional Account Lead on project planning, status, risks, and challenges.
- Onsite client communicator for detailed timeline-specific project queries.
- Creating production timelines according to SLA’s, building pipeline campaign forecasts to identify production peaks to resource PMs accordingly.
- As well as owning E2E delivery, you will have offshore capacity to support volumes of work where you will need to brief designers on campaign specifics, timings and scope.
- Overseeing and signing off IPMs adapted timings based on local market nuance.
- Tracking regional pre-production tasks such as translations, price validation, global master approvals and market participation.
- Escalating resource shortfalls to Account Lead and Project Director.
- Overseeing and tracking PMs delivery progress, feeding status reports to regional and channel leads.
- Build and nurture strong relationships with key stakeholders.
- Lead regional production, localisation and delivery, ensuring direction, control, and effective communication throughout the process. Managing multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.
- Provide PM team leadership, line managing up to 2-3 reports.
- Drive campaign execution, and closure, monitoring progress, controlling deadlines, engaging relevant stakeholders and ensuring successful delivery and ensure data is accurately captured at every step.
- Support the Account 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 internal team ensuring production is on track and providing an escalation point to the relevant parties.
- Review global campaigns, familiarise yourself with forecast data, to drive foresight of production.
- Support the Account 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 you need to be great in this role:
- 7+ years of relevant experience in digital, print and motion, covering owned and bought media.
- CPG experience preferably personal care.
- A detail-oriented professional with exemplary organizational skills, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment.
- Skilled in risk management and problem-solving, with the ability to pivot and adapt strategies as needed to ensure project success.
- An effective communicator who can foster collaboration across teams, ensuring clarity and alignment in project goals.
- Experience working with multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.
- Worked with automation and Gen AI tools to deliver content at speed and scale.
- Demonstrated production experience on global brands with line management experience.
- Strong account and project management skills, with experience managing onsite and offshore teams.
- 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.
- Proficient in Adobe WF (or similar), Microsoft Office, and other related software.
Req ID: 17081
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Our values shape everything we do:
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
OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.
