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.

Project Manager

The Company:

Hogarth Worldwide is a leading creative production company, producing advertising and marketing content for many of the world’s most famous brands, across all media around the world. Hogarth was founded 10 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 4,000 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 day-to-day 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 Hogarth’s client’s Channel partners in EMEA.

Reporting lines and key stakeholders

This is a client-facing 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 hands-on, can-do approach to solving problems
Enthusiastic about working in a dynamic and incredibly fast-paced environment
Able to work weekends and longer hours during time constrained projects 2-3 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 client’s 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 / didn’t 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 cross-functional department involvement
Immerse yourself in the client’s 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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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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