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 (hybrid - 3 days a week in office)

Location: Johannesburg, 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.