Hogarth Worldwide is the world’s leading creative content production company. Born to make the best work brilliantly, we combine craft, insight and technology to bring creative work to life for many of the world’s most famous brands.

Founded 13 years ago, Hogarth has grown from a start-up to over 4,500 people, across 30 key cities and is now part of WPP. Obsessively striving for better is in our DNA, it is the reason for our existence and continues to drive us forward in all that we do, making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.

What does a Junior Project Manager do at Hogarth?

The Project Manager combines business vision, communication skills and soft management skills with the ability to plan, coordinate, and execute the successful delivery of projects. They keep the spotlight on the vision to inspire the team, promote teamwork and collaboration, and remove obstacles for projects to progress. The project manager is an adaptive leader to deliver projects within the allocated budget and timeframe to meet (or exceed) customer expectations. The project manager should have strong ambitions to move their career path.

Key managerial responsibilities

• Maintain a high level of quality documentation by working with the senior project management team
• Provide a minimum of weekly feedback to the senior project management team on overall project status and performance
• Assist in the sharing of knowledge and long term development of the whole project management team (and where appropriate the business) to improve team capacity, efficiency and client offering



 

Key project responsibilities

• Initiate, define, plan and manage delivery of projects for clients across a range of different media depending on experience, this media could include but not limited to:
  • Web Sites
  • Configurators
  • CGI Imagery
  • CGI Animations / Videos
  • Printed Material
• Creation of Statements of Works, project plans, RAID logs
• Managing the day to day running of projects including maintaining project plans, RAID logs, RAG Status, daily scrums
• Ensuring resource for projects are both resourced in good time and they are fully informed of their deliverables
• Organise and manage iterations and scrum meetings
• Organise and manage retrospectives and lesson learnt sessions when applicable and document these sessions
• Fully monitor project Risks and Issues, ensuring where required that actions are in place to resolve or mitigate, escalating at the earliest possible opportunity when required
• Ensure project budgets are managed within tolerances
• Deliver exemplary customer service while delivering the project
• Support and collaborate with various internal departments across all stages of the project
• Be able to interface with third-party vendors
• Demonstrate exemplary customer service while delivering projects
• Ensure high quality delivery of projects, often assuming a Quality Assurance role



 

Requirements

• Strong Client facing and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of writing quality statement of works, Managing issues and risks using RAID logs & status reports
• Expert in managing projects in high-pressure environments – Cool under pressure and able to diffuse heated situations, unite and motivate teams
• Knowledge of quality management and techniques
• Experience managing multi-region, multi-language
• Experience of using Microsoft Project



 

Diversity and Inclusion

Hogarth is committed to diversity and inclusion, through our ideas, our people, how we behave and conduct ourselves. Creating a truly inclusive culture at all levels of the organisation that encourages different points of view, making Hogarth not only a better company and place to work but an environment where everyone experiences connection, opportunity and a sense of belonging.

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