Brandtech+ (formerly known as OLIVER+) is a global team of creative thinkers, tech-savvy trendsetters, and production pros specialising in film, CGI, automation, AI, motion design, and digital/print content. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our focus is to connect clients with high-quality solutions, talent and ambitious opportunities worldwide.
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: Senior Project Manager
Location: South Africa only - Remote working until further notice
About the role:
The SNR Project Manager is responsible for running creative and production processes and working alongside our existing talented Project Management team to drive a project from brief to delivery. Leading on projects while working with our dynamic teams across the business, our project managers successfully deliver projects following Brandtech+’ ways of working.
What we want is a passionate, talented individual who can showcase their skills of managing multiple mid to high complexity 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.
What you will be doing:
- Leading incoming brief triage process
- Understanding capacity and volume of work at any time
- Ensuring involvement from key stakeholders where brief merits
- Where appropriate, in simpler or more executional briefs, managing Client follow ups or clarifications to enable project kick off quickly
- Allocating briefs within the team based on capacity and skillset
- Serving as a partner to the Client Service team
- Understanding brand level KPI’s
- Informed and involved in forward planning; inclusive of key moments or predicted asks that will require peaks in service.
- Point of escalation for delivery and project management team concerns
- Understand and be able to communicate progress and status to our Client Service team or Clients were necessary
- At times, given small nature of the team, there may be a requirement to serve as POC for Brand teams for out of office coverage
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Confident managing multiple client stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decision making
- Schedule projects in line with the correct internal resource and processes and help to source additional capacity where necessary
- Identifying, partnering and, at times leading, in developing and evolving process documentation to better support delivery and business success
- Ensure projects follow the agency and client process and are completed on time and on budget
- Ad hoc support on complex projects
- Work closely with the Account Director and other PM roles to support on new business opportunities
- Ensure final deliverables are quality driven and comply to the design and production requirements and expectations
- Monitor utilization and output of team
What you need to be great in this role:
- 5-10 years of experience of managing integrated campaigns in a creative or production agency, with good knowledge of digital and social media
- 3-5 years of experience in a client-facing role, demonstrating success in building successful relationships with mid to senior-level clients
- Strong proven project management skills and experience
- Experience creating and updating project plans and regular project status reports
- Experience with stakeholder management and stakeholder communication on projects
- Comfortable with managing multiple projects at once
- Have a positive, can-do outlook, willing to leverage past experience to provide the best solution for each project you own
- Be unafraid to ask questions and have an innate ability to identify and manage project risk
- Fluent in English is a must, German language experience would be a huge plus
- Software competency – Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Zoom, Teams and OMG (Oliver Marketing Gateway internal approval system - training will be provided).
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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
Brandtech+, 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.
Brandtech+ 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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What We Do
The Brandtech Group is the world's #1 digital-only marketing group and the leading global generative AI marketing company. It was founded in June 2015 (as You & Mr Jones) by former Havas Global CEO David Jones, with the simple mission to help brands do their marketing better, faster and cheaper using technology. It was renamed The Brandtech Group in January 2022 and is the largest global digital partner for some of the world’s biggest brands. Our group companies are: Mofilm 55 Brandtech Consulting Mobkoi Gravity Road Oliver Collectively Brandtech Media DP6 Jellyfish Pencil We also make strategic investments in cutting-edge startups building tech-enabled ways for global brands to do their marketing better, faster and cheaper. Some representative examples are: Niantic Crossing Minds Automat Pixlee-TurnTo Zappar Elsy Blacktag Good-Loop Tribe Dynamics AI Foundation Traackr Jivox VidMob Engage Video Group EVRYTHNG We are headquartered in New York and have operations in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, Panama, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia, and Indonesia
