Regional Technical Project Manager

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 6,000 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.
What does a Regional Technical Project Manager do at Hogarth?
This role will manage projects across the Americas (US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil) for a major global brand. The candidate will be joining to lead a number of technically- focused work streams within the wider Technology transformation program. The role includes defining, planning, managing, reporting on and communicating work stream activity across their assigned Region (EMEA/Americas/APAC).
The role includes defining, planning, managing, reporting on and communicating project activity. Specifically, the role will entail collating a large amount of discovery information on behalf of Hogarth and a large multinational client, ultimately formulating a deployment plan for user machines, associated software applications and appropriate infrastructure across several markets within Hogarth and in Client locations
Requirements

• Identify opportunities for process improvement
• Create and attain effective stakeholder communication
• Show a high level of technical knowledge to internal teams and Hogarth clients. This can be by active consultation, presentation, technical evaluations or general supportive discussion. It’s of particular importance to be knowledgeable about Hogarth’s software offering and associated production infrastructure environments, across all disciplines.
• Ensure all delivery streams are working together effectively, outputs are synchronized where necessary and internal and external dependencies are mapped and managed
• Implementation of internal and 3rd party products
• Maintain appropriate document management controls
• Recommend and manage changes as required to meet stated requirement
• Maintain a working understanding of any relevant 3rd party contractual obligations, commercial arrangements, SLAs andKPIs
• Monitor and report on project progress and exceptions, providing recommendations for corrective actions where necessary
• Escalate issues as necessary within the project organization structure
• Work with Hogarth Worldwide internal teams and Clients to understand production system requirements and ensure thatHogarth systems deliver efficient solutions
• Provide leadership in the initiation, definition, execution and closure of the project
• Ensure that the project is established and operated in accordance with the established HWW Project Management Framework
• Take accountability for a broad range of technical project implementations
• Responsible for defining, planning, managing, reporting on and communicating project activity

Qualifications

• Proven track record of approaching issues methodically and the ability to think laterally for resolution
• Strong client facing aptitude for managing client (both internal and external) requirements and expectations
• Problem solver
• Natural aptitude to the role and active interest in technology, specifically Enterprise Infrastructure
• Good interpersonal and collaborative skills
• 5+ years of strong experience working in technical project delivery
• Business analysis skills
• Commercial acumen
• Strong project management skills with history of being able to manage multiple projects that may overlap or be interlinked when aligning with business requirements
• Understanding of how systems can integrate
• Previous experience with SaaS implementations
• Capability of working under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Previous experience working within the Advertising / Production sector with industry knowledge of working practices, multi-geo technology solutions and high performant Networks is a strong plus
• Comfortable working within an ever-changing environment in a rapidly growing company
• Experience of working in transformation and change programs

A Hybrid working model
Now offices are fully open we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, something we hope will provide everyone much more flexibility to their working week. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for about 50% of the time for most people. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.
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.
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