Production Project Manager job in South Africa Dec 2024

Production Project Manager job in Cape Town, Woodstock Dec 2024

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Production Project Manager Jobs opportunity in South Africa jobs 2024

Job description

www.lobsterink.com is looking for a brilliant project manager to join our large creative production team in Cape Town.
Lobster Ink is the world’s leading online hospitality education platform. We deliver an end-to-end experience for our learners and clients, where every step of the learning journey is created in-house at the highest possible quality. Our platform is created, improved and maintained by our development team based in Amsterdam, who continuously strive for the best possible online learning experience – and it shows: our 400,000 learners, in 50 countries, spend an average of 18 minutes on our system per login. Lobster Ink’s head office is based in Geneva, and our sales offices in Mauritius, Dubai, Hong Kong and New York serve some of our biggest clients. The Cape Town team is responsible for developing our online learning content and comprises a team of course architects, project managers, scriptwriters, editors, designers, animators and videographers.
If that sounds as good to you as it does to us, please go through the job specs below and apply.
Job summary
The project manager is responsible for managing the production client experience alongside the guidance of the programme manager and programme director. This role manages the full project management function of course production and drives profitability for the business. Close communication with the programme manager and director, traffic director and creative director will be integral for the efficiencies for both client and Lobster Ink and the success of this role.

Key responsibilities

• To draft accurate proposals, estimates and project budgets for production and translation projects.
• To provide strong guidance to the team leads working on their projects to ensure that deadlines and budgets are consistently met.
• To deliver detailed recon reports in an accurate and timely manner.
• To encourage innovative thinking in their project teams and push team members to implement more effective ways of working that improve the timing and delivery of production outputs.
• To be highly solution-focused to lead client meetings when deemed appropriate by the programme manager or programme director.
• To work closely with the traffic director regarding the availability of resources to meet their client commitments.
• To provide feedback to the primary account manager (Lobster International) to give updates on the status of the production opportunity status.
• To seek final approval from primary account manager of all customer quotes that go out to the customer.
• To frequently liaise with the programme director and programme manager as well as the traffic director to manage risk and proactively try to resolve any potential challenges and queries that might impact on the meeting of client deadlines.
• To regularly liaise with client if applicable, finance, sales and operations and the Lobster International team to keep them updated on course production progress and deadlines.
• To take responsibility for the cost management of all assigned projects and ensure regular communication with the finance department to keep updated on the financial status of accounts at all times.
• To manage the production team when filming on location and ensure that all necessary administration, reporting and budget compliance is adhered to.

Technical knowledge

• Experience with both Microsoft Office and iWork suites as well as other project management programs required for execution.
• Highly proficient in Excel or numbers.
• Strong proposal writing, pitch preparation and negotiation skills.
• Advanced presentation and influencing skills with the ability to succinctly tell stories when presenting ideas.
• Strong financial/commercial acumen and a strong focus on logistics (for scheduling and resourcing).

Requirements

• Minimum of two to three years’ experience as an account executive/project manager with a proven track record in client engagement and retention.
• Agency experience is essential.
• Strong leadership presence and leadership skills will be a differentiator.