Integrated Project Manager
Location:
Mumbai
Introduction:
Join our dynamic team as an
Integrated Project Manager
, where youll have the opportunity to drive creative adaptation media production for our Global brand accounts . Working from one of our r egional satellite studios, you ll be instrumental in delivering projects for numerous markets in region. Reporting to the Regional Producer, youll collaborate closely with regional teams, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders driving impactful content production. The
Integrated project Manager
understands the complexities of global brand campaign production cycles and has a comprehensive knowledge of universal print and moving image terminology. You will possess experience across POS, OOH, Social Media, Online Video, TV and Cinema production, specifications and best practice. As a pivotal member of our team, you will assess upcoming campaign volumes and scope, reviewing SLA timings plans created by the Regional Producer, adapting where necessary to meet the nuanced lead times of the markets in your region to meet key milestones. You will review global and local pipeline activations across print and moving image channels and assessing resource requirements ahead of time, ensuring campaigns are briefed to the creative team in a timely and accurate manner, identifying production overlaps and relaying regular status updates the Regional Producer.
As
Integrated Project Manager,
you will motivate your direct team to excel in their roles and ensure effective communication across regional teams, aligning on overarching objectives. The Integrated Project manager oversees the end-to-end production, actively tracking key milestones such as translation requests, in market price validation, client approvals and delivery, ensuring creative teams are working efficiently, managing status, risks and challenges of all the campaign deliverables and resource, escalating production issues to the Regional Producer. A vital responsibility will be quality control, a keen eye and comprehensive understanding of brand guidelines is essential to delivery precision. The integrated Project Manager will be responsible for final delivery of campaign assets, performing a full pre-delivery audit of all files ensuring all relevant stakeholders receive proof of delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Creating bespoke timelines based on channel and market specific lead times.
- Briefing creative studio on campaign specifics, timings, and scope.
- Holding daily stand-ups with creative team for live status tracking.
- Communicating translation, creative adaptation, approvals, and approval deadlines to relevant stakeholders.
- Proactively assessing resource needs upstream to identify potential shortfall.
- Conducting real time risk assessment, providing a campaign feedback loop to the Regional Producer, ensuring they are properly informed on status.
- Build and nurture strong relationships with key stakeholders such a Media Agencies.
- Support the Regional Producer on project planning, status, risks, and challenges.
- Triage any production issues from creative team, escalating to the Regional Producer and Channel Leads.
- Oversee digital and print campaigns covering owned and bought media, managing multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.
- Drive precise campaign execution, monitoring progress, controlling deadlines, engaging relevant stakeholders and ensuring successful delivery.
- Support the Producer on daily stand-up calls with offshore teams, ensuring production is on track and providing an escalation point to the studio manager/PMs.
- Review global campaigns, familiarise yourself with forecast data, to drive foresight of production.
- Assess resource needs for out-of-scope projects supporting Regional Producer in producing resource and cost estimates.
- Ensure brand guardianship of local briefs and global guideline changes, while rolling out local campaigns in the sales market and re-iterating local SLAs.
- Perform robust QC on all deliverables ensuring all are produced on brand, taking ownership of any piece of creative submitted to the client for review.
- Final delivery of campaign deliverables to media vendors adn notifying all relevant stakeholders.
- Champion automation and future-facing ways of working.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of relevant experience in digital, print and motion, covering owned and bought media.
- Experience working with multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.
- Demonstrated production experience on global brands with line management experience
- Strong account & project management skills, with experience managing onsite and offshore teams.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
- Proven ability to drive successful campaign production lifecycles, with an ability to assess risk in real time adapt using agile methodology.
- Proficient forecasting, resource management and project burn rate.
- Keen eye for detail and commitment to innovation and new business growth.
THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...
You re someone who thrives on shared successes, especially as part of a team that s making waves with innovative processes & high-volume delivery . Your organisational and communication skills set you apart from the crowd. You are methodical and take pride in being able to apply agile methodologies to the task at hand , adapting accordingly based on your ability to foresee risk.
You ll be the kind of person who is driven by producing large volume multi-media campaigns , and understands how to plan, track and execute multiple projects simulta neously.
You ll have experience across print and moving image with a comprehensive knowledge of common specs, ratios, resource needs and final del iverable output formats.
You ll already be a n Integrated Project Manager looking for bigger challenges on a larger account where you can hone your existing skills and cultivate new ones.
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