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Print Project Manager

Hogarth Tokyo
Language
EN: fluent
JP: none
Salary
Employment Type
Full time

Job Description

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.

Main Role

The Print Project Manager's primary responsibilities include planning and managing promotional campaigns (mainly in-store merchandising) for major FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) clients handled by our company. The role requires accurate, prompt, and high-quality work, as well as the mental resilience to handle various pressures in tight schedules.


Responsibilities

  • Accurately understand client briefs and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to plan, propose, and execute deliverables.
  • Direct the production team.
  • Coordinate with printing companies.
  • Manage project budgets and schedules.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

  • Over 5 years of experience in production management as an account executive, director, or project manager at an advertising agency, advertising production company, or printing company.
  • Extensive knowledge of production involving printing, visual photography, and color retouching.
  • A superior team player capable of working accurately under pressure and actively improving skills through training.
  • Ability to adhere to and suggest improvements for regulated graphic production and checking processes.
  • Creativity, flexibility, passion for work, and a positive attitude.
  • Ability to work at a fast pace and meet tight deadlines in a demanding creative and production environment.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Fluent English speaker.

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Practical experience with design software such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
  • Japanese proficiency (conversational skills and ability to understand documentation).

About the Company

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 16 years ago, Hogarth has grown from a start-up to over 6,000 eople, across 31 key cities nd 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.

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.