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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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Hogarth Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office
124, Mount Poonamallee Rd, Manapakkam, DLF Cybercity, Block 8, ,, Chennai, United States, 600089
