Translation jobs in South Africa

Established in ****, 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 clients in 40+ countries and counting, delivering tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences. As part of The Brandtech Group, we leverage cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work, enhancing efficiency, sparking creativity, and driving insightful decision-making for our teams.

Role: Integrated Project Manager (12 months FTC)

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

As Integrated Project Manager you will motivate your direct team, ensure effective communication across regional teams, and align on overarching objectives. You will oversee end-to-end production, actively track key milestones such as translation requests, market price validation, client approvals, and delivery, manage status, risks and challenges of all campaign deliverables and resources, and 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 for delivery precision. You will be responsible for the final delivery of campaign assets, performing a full pre-delivery audit of all files and ensuring all stakeholders receive proof of delivery.

• 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.
• Support the Producer on daily stand-up calls with offshore teams, ensuring production is on track and providing an escalation point to the studio manager/PMs.
• 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.

• 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 and adapt using agile methodology.
• Proficient forecasting, resource management and project burn rate.
• Keen eye for detail and commitment to innovation and new business growth.

• Ambitious to succeed
• Imaginative to push the boundaries of what's possible
• Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
• Always learning and listening to understand
• Results-focused to exceed expectations
• 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.