Integrated Project Manager

Cape Town, South Africa

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences. 

As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results. 

Role: Integrated Project Manager 

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

About the role:

Join our dynamic team as an Integrated Project Manager, where you'll have the opportunity to drive creative adaptation media production for our Global brand accounts. Working from one of our regional satellite studios, you’ll be instrumental in delivering projects for numerous markets in region. Reporting to the Regional Producer, you'll 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.  

What you will be doing:

  • 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 and notifying all relevant stakeholders. 
  • Champion automation and future-facing ways of working. 

What you need to be great in this role:

  • 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. 

Req ID: 12642

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Our values shape everything we do: 

Be Ambitious to succeed   

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible   

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work   

Be always learning and listening to understand   

Be Results-focused  to exceed expectations   

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations   
 

OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.   

 OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.

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