Senior Project Manager (German speaking)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Project Manager (German speaking) based in South Africa.

This role offers the opportunity to lead high-volume digital campaign productions for major international brands and retail organizations.
You will oversee complex projects spanning multiple markets, languages, channels, creative disciplines, and production teams.
From planning and resourcing to budgets, timelines, deliverables, and client communication, you will own the full project lifecycle.
You will collaborate with creative specialists, producers, AI artists, motion designers, video teams, and external freelancers across international locations.
The position combines commercial responsibility with operational leadership, requiring strong organization and confident decision-making.
You will also contribute to improving production workflows and adopting AI-enabled tools that make large-scale creative production more efficient.
This is a highly collaborative, international environment where German and English fluency are essential and European working hours are the primary collaboration window.

• Plan, coordinate, and manage large-scale digital campaign productions from initial requirements through final delivery.
• Coordinate high-volume asset production across multiple markets, languages, channels, and creative disciplines.
• Organize production workflows across distributed international teams and ensure smooth handoffs between production stages and time zones.
• Lead and coordinate Producer and Media Producer teams, providing structure, priorities, and clear direction throughout projects.
• Collaborate closely with designers, AI artists, motion designers, video producers, and other creative specialists to ensure production requirements are understood and delivered effectively.
• Manage external freelancers and coordinate their contributions, timelines, and deliverables.
• Act as a primary client contact throughout production, maintaining clear communication and ensuring expectations remain aligned.
• Translate client requirements into practical production plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Take responsibility for project budgets, monitoring costs, resources, and financial performance throughout the production lifecycle.
• Track project timelines and capacity to ensure campaigns are delivered on schedule and within agreed parameters.
• Identify opportunities to improve production processes, workflows, systems, and operational efficiency.
• Use project management, resource planning, production, and AI-enabled tools to optimize execution and support scalable delivery.
• In a senior capacity, take increased ownership of client relationships, commercial decisions, and budget responsibility for larger and more complex campaigns.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Project Manager, Producer, or similar role within an agency, creative production, or digital production environment.
• 7–10 years of relevant experience for a Senior-level position.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale campaigns with high volumes of creative assets across multiple markets or channels.
• Experience leading or coordinating creative production teams and managing multiple stakeholders simultaneously.
• Strong experience in direct client management, with the confidence to communicate requirements, resolve issues, manage expectations, and provide project updates.
• Experience managing project budgets, resources, timelines, and deliverables with strong commercial awareness.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to bring structure and clarity to complex, fast-moving productions.
• Fluency in German and English, both written and spoken, is essential.
• Comfortable collaborating across international teams and time zones, particularly within European working hours.
• Strong interest in AI-supported creative production and willingness to continuously learn and adopt new AI tools and technologies.
• Comfortable working with digital production and business systems such as Salesforce, Odoo, Resource Guru, Adobe Suite, and AI-enabled production tools.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• A proactive, dependable, collaborative, and solutions-oriented mindset.
• Ability to manage multiple moving parts without losing focus on quality, deadlines, budgets, or client expectations.

Benefits

• Fully remote-first working model with the option to work from offices in Ratingen, Cape Town, or Phuket.
• Opportunity to collaborate with international teams across Germany, South Africa, and Thailand.
• Work on high-volume campaigns for major global brands and retail organizations.
• Exposure to a technology-driven creative production environment where AI plays a central role in production workflows.
• Opportunity to contribute to the development and optimization of scalable production processes.
• International, cross-functional collaboration with creative, production, technology, and client-facing professionals.
• Opportunities for professional and career development within a growing organization.
• Primary collaboration schedule aligned with European working hours, approximately 9:00 AM–5:00 PM, while working with teams across other time zones.
• Full-time employment with an experienced-level position offering significant ownership and responsibility.

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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