Global Production Director

About Hogarth

Hogarth is the Global Content Production 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.

At Hogarth, the Global Production Director is a senior, Executive Producer+ level role accountable for defining and designing the overarching global production strategy, frameworks, and scalable models for integrated marketing campaigns and "big bet" brand initiatives. This leader establishes the strategic direction, methodologies, and guidelines that enable the efficient, effective, and consistent execution of our creative vision across all tiers, markets, and channels worldwide.

Crucially, this role focuses on strategic design, thought leadership, and model development, and is not responsible for day‑to‑day production delivery or project management. Instead, it empowers regional and local teams by providing the strategic clarity and repeatable models for them to adapt and execute with ownership. The role operates as part of a senior leadership team, partnering with Creative, Business, and Strategy leaders to proactively embed strategic production expertise at the earliest inception phase of major campaigns.

It also involves working directly with Content Strategists, Creative Teams, and regional production leads to shape and optimise production approaches from a strategic standpoint, ensuring innovative ideas are viable, scalable, and strategically positioned for execution "through the line." This role represents a critical blend of creative understanding, operational excellence, and a global mindset, focused on optimising resources and harnessing innovation to deliver exceptional brand impact without compromising creative integrity.

• Strategy & Model Design
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  Develop and implement comprehensive, end‑to‑end production strategies and repeatable models for multi‑channel, global marketing campaigns. This includes defining methodologies, resource allocation principles, budget frameworks, and risk mitigation strategies that span Tier 1 origination to Tier 3 market localisation.
• Global Scalability & Governance
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  Design production strategies that seamlessly account for global scalability, localisation needs (cultural relevance, translation, transcreation), regional nuances, and tiered campaign structures. Establish clear pathways and governance for collaboration and strategic handover to local execution teams.
• "Big Bet" Leadership
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  Provide strategic production leadership for high‑profile, complex initiatives, identifying innovative production techniques and partners to guide groundbreaking creative from a strategic perspective.
• Strategic Resource Optimisation
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  Develop frameworks for managing complex global production budgets, optimising spend, and advising on vendor ecosystem strategy (production houses, post‑production studios, localisation partners) to ensure best‑in‑class talent, cost‑effectiveness, and strategic alignment.

• Inception Partnership & Influence
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  Proactively engage with Creative, Content Strategy, Channel Planning, Account teams, and crucially, regional/local production leads from the earliest stages of campaign development. Provide early production viability assessments and strategic recommendations to influence creative concepts and content strategies, identifying efficiencies and optimal pathways, in close consultation with local teams to ensure practical application.
• Strategic Liaison
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  Act as the central strategic production point of contact,…