Integrated Product Manager

OLIVER Agency; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A creative marketing agency in Cape Town is seeking an Integrated Product Manager to lead end-to-end campaign production. The role requires 4+ years of experience in managing campaigns across various media, strong communication skills, and the ability to drive successful outcomes. Key responsibilities include managing timelines, overseeing creative teams, and ensuring the quality of deliverables. This role offers a collaborative environment focusing on innovation and results.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in digital, print, and motion media.
• Experience managing multiple campaigns across languages and channels.
• Strong account and project management skills with line management experience.
• Proficient in forecasting and resource management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end production of campaigns and manage milestones.
• Create bespoke timelines and brief creative teams on campaign specifics.
• Conduct real-time risk assessments and ensure effective communication.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Relationship-building

Risk assessment

Creativity

Job description

Overview

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 model drives creativity and efficiency to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.

As a part of The Brandtech Group, we’re at the forefront of leveraging 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 Product Manager

Location

Cape Town, South Africa (Office presence expected at minimum, 3 days per week)

About the role

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 as 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.
• Drive precise campaign execution, monitoring progress, controlling deadlines, engaging relevant stakeholders and ensuring successful delivery.
• Review global campaigns, familiarize yourself with forecast data, to drive foresight of production.
• Assess resource needs for out-of-scope projects supporting Regional Producer in producing resource and cost estimates.
• Ensure brand guardianship of local briefs and global guideline changes, while rolling out local campaigns in the sales market and re-iterating local SLAs.
• Perform robust QC on all deliverables ensuring all are produced on brand, taking ownership of any piece of creative submitted to the client for review.
• Final delivery of campaign deliverables to media vendors and notifying all relevant stakeholders.
• Champion automation and future-facing ways of working.

What you need to be great in this role

• 4+ years of relevant experience in digital, print and motion, covering owned and bought media.
• Experience working with multiple campaigns, languages, and channels.
• Demonstrated production experience on global brands with line management experience
• Strong account and project management skills, with experience managing onsite and offshore teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Proven ability to drive successful campaign production lifecycles, with an ability to assess risk in real time adapt using agile methodology.
• Proficient forecasting, resource management and project burn rate.
• Keen eye for detail and commitment to innovation and new business growth.

Req ID: 15979

Our values

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

OLIVER, 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.

OLIVER 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.