Localization Project Manager (Istanbul)

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İstanbul, Şişli, İstanbul
Entry level
AdTech
The Role
The Localization Project Manager oversees localization projects for a client's Marketing team, managing creative personnel, organizing workflows, and ensuring quality standards are met. Responsibilities include monitoring timelines and budgets, managing client expectations, and leading junior team members, while also collaborating with the client's Project Manager and coordinating talent performance.
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Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. 

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. 

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

The Role:

Localization Project Manager is responsible for project managing localization work for the client’s Marketing team. The position works closely with the clients Project Manager and a network of creative talents from various markets.

This position will focus on building strong relationship with the Client Talent Network and briefing new projects accurately. Strong organization and time management skills are required, when managing Clients, together with a focus on quality. 

Key Responsibilities:

Localization Network Management

  • Ensure a thorough understanding of the contractual obligations, commercial arrangements, SOW and SLAs of the accounts and ensure specific details are understood by the wider team where relevant
  • Manage creative people and ensure they are motivated to perform
  • Coordinate weekly status meetings/monthly review sessions
  • Organize teamwork, create a balanced work schedule and ensure work is of high standards and delivered on time
  • Flag any potential team issues to the line manager and be actively involved in finding a solution
  • Review talent performance and drive constant performance improvement by working closely with talent manager and providing regular feedback on all talent
  • Highlight and resolve quality control issues with the network
  • Ensure that there is a clear division and allocation of workload and briefs among team members and validators

Project Management

  • Coordinate and ensure all parties follow the agreed workflows and manage them through the process
  • Work alongside and support client’s Project Manager when briefing and tracking projects through to completion
  • Lead junior member, to constantly improve their work and motivate them
  • Ensure that there is clear division and allocation of workload among team members
  • Monitor timelines and manage client expectations
  • Monitor budget utilization and flag potential issues
  • Advise line manager on resource gaps and flag potential issues
  • Ensure account delivers consistently against all contractual obligations including SLAs and KPIs
  • Identify bottle necks/pain points for the validation network and suggest resolution
  • Identify training requirements for team members to ensure their adherence to processes and workflow
  • Plan, prepare and implement the induction of new starters
  • Lead overseas projects for up to 3 weeks (2–3 times per year)

Finance Management

  • Quarterly planning
  • Regular budget spend reports – monitor and analyse progression of spends
  • Flag important budget fluctuations, peaks to the Client and line manager and track spend progress
  • Ensure full compliance with all financial procedures and policies

Client Management

  • Co-ordinate between all relevant parties: Hogarth team, Client and cross-functional teams and Validation network
  • Set and manage client expectations for deliverables and timeframes
  • Understand and work under the confidentiality policy
  • Build strong, trusting relationships with all key client stakeholders

Requirements:

  • A minimum of 4 years Project Management/Traffic background experience preferred in an ad agency or in-house creative department
  • Fluent written and spoken English
  • Experience of financial responsibilities
  • Demonstrable experience in managing large scale and complex projects
  • Experience working on global brands, ideally across all media, including print and digital
  • Demonstrable experience managing total creative workflow, i.e. internal briefing, briefing to vendors/studios, managing key milestones / deadlines, presentations / internal approvals, executions, delivery
  • Self-driven, organized and have an eye for detail


Hogarth Values

Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.

Hands on: We don’t wait for things to happen; we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.

Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.

Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humor.

#LI-YU1 #LI-Hybrid

 

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves.  We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging. 

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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The Company
Chennai,
4,869 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Born to make the best work, brilliantly.
We combine craft insight and technology to bring your creative work to life.

Hogarth was founded 15 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 6000 people, across 35 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.

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