Integrated Project Manager

About the job

The Role: As an Integrated Project Manager, your role is to traffic the work into the studio, factoring in studio resource, media scheduling/timelines, guidelines and demanding stakeholders. Responsibilities: • End-to-End Project Ownership: Manages the complete project lifecycle from initiation to completion, ensuring on-time, within-scope, and on-budget delivery of small to medium-sized marketing projects. This includes developing and maintaining project timelines, coordinating with cross-functional teams (language PMs, production, QC, agencies), and guaranteeing on-time completion. • Client Collaboration (Project-Specific): Collaborates with clients on project-specific details, including brief review, query resolution, requirement clarification (with creative agencies and media teams), and progress updates. Ensures alignment on project scope, timelines, and deliverables. Evaluates master assets for local market adaptation suitability and assesses deviations from global guidelines. • Budget & Cost Management: Owns the project budget, creating accurate cost estimations, obtaining client approvals, managing purchase orders, tracking ongoing costs, reconciling actuals against estimates, and resolving discrepancies. Adjusts cost estimations in case of scope changes. Handles financial reporting and billing related to the project. • Resource Management & Coordination: Effectively allocates and manages project resources, coordinating with internal teams and external vendors to ensure optimal utilization and efficient workflow. • Quality Control & Assurance: Implements and maintains quality control measures throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring deliverables meet client specifications, brand guidelines, and quality standards. • Risk & Project Health Management: Proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates potential project risks. Monitors and reports on overall project health (budget, timeline, resource utilization), escalating issues and implementing corrective actions as needed. Requirements: • 7+ years of experience working in Print / Moving Image / Digital creative services industry • Strong team management experience • Prioritization, time management and attention to detail • Resilience and ability to work under pressure • Strong interpersonal skills.

Requirements

• Project Management
• Client Collaboration
• Budget Management
• Quality Control

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in creative services industry

Preferred Technologies

• Project Management
• Client Collaboration
• Budget Management
• Quality Control

About the company

WPP Production is the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP's content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organization. We combine world-class human craft with next generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi-channel content systems at scale. Built for borderless collaboration and powered by deep craft expertise, we are the production engine designed for today's always on, AI driven marketing world.