Operations Lead

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, Nestlé, 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 7,500 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. We have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for an average of 4 days per week for most people.

What does an Operations Lead 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 Operations Lead is responsible for bringing operational excellence to the EU region. The Operations Lead will support Hogarth Senior Leadership to deliver world-class marketing communications through knowledge, strategy, and exceptional planning.

Key measures of success:

• Continuous delivery of all EU projects, striving for excellence at every step.
• Ensure operational excellence is maintained at all times.
• Develop and own a strong strategic partnership with our client teams.
• Effective team leadership across multiple locations.
• Implement global initiatives and deliver against the business and client needs.
• Ability to change and influence, ensuring EU is leading the way on the global stage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process and Operations Lead year round planning of projects including:

• Timeline tracking
• Resource mapping
• Talent team relationship
• Onboarding of resource for large scale programmes
• Collaboration with IT Lead on tech and infrastructure requirements
• Work with wider team on training plan and development
• Oversee security and compliance
• Own and maintain operational playbook

Leadership:

• Ensure operational frameworks and best practices are embedded across the account.
• Champion Hogarth culture; a guardian of our values.
• Lead by example demonstrating both professionalism and passion.
• Take ownership and find solutions.
• Cultivate fresh-thinking, collaboration, respect and inclusivity.

Strategy and Financials:

• Work with the function leads to build out a future facing production model that delivers on the client’s evolving needs.
• Partner with Business Director and Commercial leads to deliver revenue and agreed contribution and profitability targets.
• Lead special projects, using data and insight to build out the business scenarios and recommendations.
• Work closely with leadership team to flawlessly deliver work that meets the client’s business needs.
• Demonstrate solid commercial knowledge and financial acumen.
• Implement operational governance and best practice across the business.
• Contribute to regular business reviews to Director level (and above).

Requirements:

• Experience within a global production environment and/or a creative agency environment, with demonstrable operations experience.
• An appreciation for how great work gets done and a commitment to ensuring flawless execution.
• Ability to prioritise and work effectively within tight time frames.
• Strong management, collaboration and communication skills; effectively prioritise and actively manage internal and client stakeholders.
• Commercially focused with a passion for delivering and exceeding results.
• Focus on continuous improvement.
• Experience managing the rollout of new tools and systems.
• Demonstrated experience of successfully working within a virtual team environment.
• Experience with complex decision and planning processes.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Hogarth 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.