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Hogarth

Location:
Philippines, Manila

Category:
IT - Administration

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Job Description:

The Head of Digital Technology role in Manila is a pivotal senior role for our global Digital operations at HWW. This role has primary focus on operational excellence ensuring work is produced consistently in the best way possible to the highest standards. In addition the successful candidate will be responsible for delivering innovation, optimization and continuous improvement while being accountable for the recruitment and management of a team of subject matter experts working to clear KPI’s. The successful candidate will act as the face of the Manila Digital team and is a key member of the Global Digital Production senior and strategic tribe. The key attributes of a senior leader in this role include – a solutions orientated mindset, a passion to explore opportunities to perpetually innovate and optimize with particular focus on automation and agile ways of working and hybridized/cross utilization of resources across our various work type verticals, Web, CMS, Banners. This role reports into the Operations Director of the Manila GDC.

Job Responsibility:

Key operational responsibility of the digital team at the Manila GDC, including adherence to KPIs for Staff Cost Ratio, Quality, Utilization, Productivity, Sourcing
Team leadership and management – Recruitment, performance management, mentoring and retention
Ongoing recruitment and sourcing strategy in the local market
Operational and Production excellence – Driving operational best practices in the team with a focus on efficiency and cross-utilization between programmed
Maintaining high standards of quality at meeting key quality KPIs
Establish a strong onboarding plan for the GDC, to onboard and implement new client workstreams into the team
Identify, support and drive automation opportunities to minimize manual workflows
Planning for future scale and growth across digital teams and functions
Focus on capability enhancement within digital teams to remain competitive in the market and globally
Collaborates with key global leaders and teams, striving to raise the profile of the Manila GDC
Effective and rapid problem solving with internal and external stakeholders
Risk mitigation planning and long term strategy for forecasting and capacity planning
Recruit and empower key senior leadership hires in your team in Manila
Plan an innovation structure for the team
Be the face of the digital team in Manila, and a strong advocate of the GDC

Requirements:

Minimum 10 years experience managing teams of developers and tech leads, managing and planning team growth, and leading operational strategy
Excellent people manager and problem solver
Great communicator
Digital expert
Recent experience overseeing work using HTML5, PHP and AEM in addition to other frameworks and platforms
Experience of the advertising space and working across multiple and varied client workstreams
Comfortable working in a fast paced content production environment
Keen on operational and commercial efficiency and streamlined processes
Innovative problem solver
Collaborative, thrives on effective team work
Strategic and focused on longer-term and scalable planning

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Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

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