Project Manager

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa MORE Full time

**Role**:Project Manager

**Level**: Mid (minimum 3 years' experience)

**Location**: South Africa (Remote)

**Duration**:6 month FTC

**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE AND TEAM**:
A global FMCG company, with multiple international brand house-hold names in its stable, is expanding the team with an off-shore Project Manager for their client. We are looking to recruit a Project Manager to work on this account as a dedicated member of the team, on a long-term contract basis. This is a remote role and you will be working closely with the team in Germany. It's a great opportunity to work within an international team, creating impactful communications across many channels and developing best practices in brand communication for top brands.

You create timing plans within our system, assume responsibility for the review and approval process of creative output and ensure the projects you own, run on time and on budget. You will need to be great with creative teams, hard-working and passionate about creative and producing the best product you can. Process is key, and someone who really respects and understands that although creative needs freedom, it also needs to follow a framework and process to allow it to thrive.

What we want to see is a proven track record of producing multiple complex projects. You should have meticulous attention to detail, understand the importance of the profitability of your projects for the agency and you will have proven yourself as a safe pair of hands on the day-to-day running of multiple prestigious projects. Most important, this role requires a courteous, positive and high-energy individual with great people skills. We value hard work, and we want to have fun doing it.

**WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING**:
**Project Set Up**
- Taking overall ownership of integrated creative projects from brief to fulfilment.
- Being the key point of contact for brand teams.
- Working closely with strategy and creative teams in preparing advertising strategies and milestones for the client.
- Liaising with clients to determine campaign scope and produce estimates and schedules.
- Identifying, exploiting and managing ad-hoc opportunities when they arise.
- Estimating complex, cross-platform projects.

**Project Delivery**
- Schedule projects in line with the correct internal resource and help to source external resource where necessary.
- Ensure projects follow the agency process and are completed on time and on budget.
- Work closely with Digital Producers to unify skills needed to execute integrated campaigns.
- Motivate and manage teams under tight deadlines.
- Educate and manage internal stakeholders in relevant production processes where necessary.
- Drive efficiency and creative excellence at all times.

**Reporting**
- Provide job reporting to the Project Manager & Account Lead on a regular basis to ensure projects are running correctly, to budget and schedule.
- Understand how to report and manage operational income for projects in a timely and accurate manner.
- Escalates any queries concerning invoicing, or estimates provided by the studio on their projects to the Project Manager Lead.

**WHAT YOU'LL NEED**:

- Excellent English language & communication skills.
- Experience managing print, digital and integrated campaigns in a creative and production agency.
- Confidence to ask questions and have an innate ability to identify and manage project risk.
- Strong track record in executing campaigns across multiple platforms.
- Previous experience of project budget management and scheduling.
- Previous experience of resource and production services sourcing.
- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise clients, influence them, and build strong working relationships.
- Have a positive can-do outlook, willing to leverage past experience to provide the best solution for each project you own.
- Be willing to share your experience where relevant and when it adds to the offering to the client.
- Be financially conscientious when managing the delivery of a project ensuring all relevant parties are aware of financial implications of delays, additional amends and re-briefs.
- Be able to verify the qualitative and quantitative output of a project against the project objectives.
- Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service.

We are looking for people who want to work closer with clients and brands, who are entrepreneurial and relish the opportunity to be a part of something new and dynamic.

**Personal attributes**:

- Confident and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing client environment.
- A passionate and inspiring creative.
- The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively.
- Self-motivated and organised.
- Collaborative team player.
- Proactive, helpful and enthusiastic.

**NOT ESSENTIAL BUT DESIRABLE**:

- History of work in social media.
- Experience in FMCG.
- Multi-market experience.

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