Description

Post End Date 17/01/2021
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 over 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 role includes defining, planning, managing, reporting on and communicating project activity. In addition, this role will make a significant contribution to the definition and delivery of best practice project management disciplines and will ensure that opportunities for improvement are identified and acted on. You will also be required to:
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Lead broad based implementation projects
Work with Hogarth Worldwide and Clients to understand production system requirements and ensure that Hogarth systems deliver efficient solutions
Recommend and manage changes as required to meet stated requirement
Show a high level of technical knowledge to Hogarth clients, this can be by active consultation, presentation, technical evaluations or general supportive discussion. It’s of particular importance to be knowledgeable about Hogarth’s software offering and associated production environments, across all disciplines.
Implementation of internal and 3rd party products
Escalate issues as necessary within the project organisation structure
Provide leadership in the initiation, definition, execution and closure of the project
Ensure that the project is established and run in accordance with the established HWW Project Management Framework
Create and maintain effective stakeholder communication mechanisms
Create and maintain effective project governance
Monitor and report on project progress and exceptions, providing recommendations for corrective actions where necessary
Maintain appropriate document management controls
Meet client expectations for product delivery
Track and report on project budgets
Ensure all delivery streams are working together effectively, outputs are synchronised where necessary and internal and external dependencies are mapped and managed
Identify opportunities for process improvement
Maintain a working understanding of the relevant contractual obligations, commercial arrangements SLAs & KPIs
Qualifications
Requirements, Technical Skills & Knowledge:
 Have knowledge of software technologies (examples: MIS and DAM Systems) with ideally a detailed understanding of workflow processes across production disciplines
Strong client facing aptitude for managing client (both internal and external) requirements and expectations
Experience of working in transformation and change projects
Business analysis skills
History of being able to manage multiple projects that may overlap or be interlinked when aligning with business requirements
Capability of working under pressure and to tight deadlines
Proven track record of approaching issues methodically and the ability to think laterally for resolution
Workflow mapping of business processes with strong documentation skills
Good interpersonal and collaborative skills
Comfortable working within an ever-changing environment in a rapidly growing company
Commercial acumen
Problem solver
Desirable Technical Skills & Knowledge:
Natural aptitude to the role and active interest in the relevant technology in particular latest web and software development methodologies and standards
Understanding of software development
Understanding of how systems can integrate
Strong project management skills
Previous experience with advertising production industry tools such as workflow automation and DAM
Experience with Adobe Suite would be beneficial