Junior Print Production Manager, Shanghai

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 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.

The Company:

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 personalization, 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.

The Role:

The role ensures flawless development and execution of world-class communications supporting our most important client's business goals. Based in Shanghai, China, the Junior Print Production Manager provides good project management skills to maintain schedules for all printed materials on various substrates. The range of work includes in-store graphics, event graphics, signage, outdoor large graphic and collaterals. The candidate must have good color analysis skills and comprehensive knowledge of pre-press, large and small format litho, and finishing techniques (fabric printing and offset/inkjet prints). Experience with digital and photographic mediums is required, and supervision of on-site installations is preferable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and brief print jobs to suppliers and outsource print management responsibilities to production agencies as necessary.
• Supervise suppliers during proofing, color management, and printing phases, including on-site press and bindery checks, finishing, quality control, and spot-checking. The print Production Manager will visit printers regularly.
• Oversee external production agencies when they perform any of the above services.
• This role will involve reporting to the Print Production Management Lead.
• Work closely with other teams to ensure that all parties strictly follow the production specifications and schedules.
• Provide color guidance and advice on the best methods for quality control, as well as time and cost efficiency. Keep clients informed of the production status of all projects.

Requirements:

• University degree and 2-3 years of print production and graphic design experience in a production agency or in-house corporate graphic design department.
• Familiar with various printed advertising applications both indoor and outdoor, such as large format graphic, barricade, luxury paper box, etc. experience in complex graphic installation supervision.
• Must be proactive, highly organized, excellent at multitasking, comfortable under pressure, and able to work effectively as a team member.
• Some experience in Adobe Creative Suite will be helpful but not mandatory.
• Strong written and spoken skills required for English and Chinese.
• Must be able to travel as required.

Hogarth Values:

Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.

Hands On: We don't wait for things to happen; we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don't have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.

Honest: We are straightforward, constructive and speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.

Happy Family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are supportive and collaborative across all our teams. Even when things get tough, we don't lose perspective or our sense of humor.

Hungry: We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment which inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.

Please contact hr.china@hogarth.com if you need to apple for this job.

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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. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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