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, Nestl\xc3\xa9, 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.A Hybrid working modelNow 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.What does a Production Director do at Hogarth?Our client is one of the world\'s most recognised brands, a global technology company who consistently delivers innovation combined with beautiful design. The Production Director is responsible for leading production delivery the newly formed CEMEA region. This involves bringing together a talented team of Studio specialists and inspiring them to produce at the highest standard. The Production Director is responsible for guiding all production teams (Channel, Content, Video) through a transition phase, whilst ensuring continuous delivery throughout. The result will be a high skilled and collaborative production team delivering measurable efficiencies and improved productivity year on year.Key measures of success:

• Continuous delivery of all CEMEA production, striving for excellence at every step.
• Develop a strong partnership with clients and global Hogarth network.
• Effective team leadership across multiple locations, ensuring consistent utilisation and improved productivity.
• Highly trained studio team across multiple disciplines.
• Implementation of global initiatives, delivering against the business and client needs.
• Ability to change and influence, ensuring CEMEA is leading the way on the global stage.

Key Responsibilities:Leadership and team management

• Lead a studio for localisation of all Content and Channel Marketing communications on the agencyside.
• Bring together a diverse team of studio managers, artwork leads and designers across multiple locations to ensure an efficient production setup, producing high quality output at scale.
• Lead by example, to build an inclusive team culture, where collaboration, fresh thinking, a can-do attitude and Hogarth values are embedded within the team DNA.
• Review team structure and resource on an ongoing basis and, with the help of data, ensure the client is serviced appropriately whilst maintaining agreed profitability.
• Ensure the team are well utilised (KPI driven) and performing to the high standard.

Plan, resource, and manage large campaign launches.

• Ensure the best production talent is on the team and provide mentoring to achieve excellence.
• Plan and coordinate training/onboarding for incoming and existing teams.
• Conduct and manage performance appraisals for direct reports.
• Point of escalation for Hogarth internal production teams.

Collaboration

• Successfully establish a trusted and strong partnership with key clients.
• Build strong internal relationships across Hogarth and ensure successful collaboration of the production team with other Hogarth functions - essential to Hogarth\'s success.
• Build a success partnership with Project Director to ensure 100% delivery across Content and Channel functions.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the Hogarth business model, services and technology.
• Able to be flexible and respond to changing needs, both external and internal.
• Possess a strong understanding of, and consistently deliver against, all contractual obligations, commercial arrangements, KPIs and SLAs with our client.
• Remove barriers and find solutions to meet client needs. Communicate clearly with clients on recommendations and solutions as part of planning, briefing and review sessions,
• Excellence in operational planning and execution.
• Provide necessary data for budgets and constant reforecasting.
• Ensure Business Director and Global SMEs informed on all matters relating to Production.

Innovations, initiatives, and best practice

• Confidentially provide recommendations using knowledge, experience and data driven insights.
• Design and implement efficiency and quality improvement initiatives within the studio.
• Drive technology and tools, ensuring the production team are delivering in line with global initiatives.
• Lead production into the future, ensuring team are equipped for success, driving professional development targets and upskilling the studio.
• Be the go-to person within the studio for all technical and operational issues, translate technical requirements into everyday language for the benefit of the team and client.
• Provide necessary data for budgets and constant reforecasting.
• Use data to inform future planning and strategic insights.
• Ensure management are aware of all issues and proposed solutions (including potential delays) to ensure swift resolution and avoid further escalation.
• Act as a brand QC/Guardian - always ensure brand guidelines, QC checklists and procedures are followed.

Requirements:

• Strong leadership skills, managing a team over multiple locations.
• Studio production experience producing localised campaigns.
• In-depth technical knowledge of print, colour retouching, and digital artwork production processes and best practices.
• Knowledge of image and production-specific needs for image reproduction; including website builds, POS, Motion Graphics and email marketing.
• Experience in financial management and understanding the importance of accurate financial forecasting.
• Excellent spreadsheet skills in both Excel and Numbers.
• Recruitment expertise. Able to brief resource manager and interview potential candidates for the studio team.
• Flexible, creative, solution-oriented individual with extensive experience in using Adobe Creative Suite.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Attention to detail, analytical thinking ability and passion for the work are essential.
• A hands-on, can-do approach to solving problems.
• The ability to prioritise and work quickly and efficiently within very tight time frames.
• Aligned to our values.
• Must be able to travel as required

Diversity & InclusionHogarth 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.Please contact if you need the job advert or form in another format.DataWe rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing personal information under the GDPR for purposes of recruitment and applications for employment.When you click the "Submit Application" button at the bottom of this page, this will send all the information you have added to Hogarth WW. Before you do this, we think it\'s a good idea to read through our Privacy . This explains what we do with your personal data when you apply for a role with us, and, how you can update the information you have provided us with or how to remove it.

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