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.

Who we are:

Hogarth is a global marketing implementation agency that produces, creates and adapts advertising for brands across all media (video, print and digital), delivering multilevel national and international campaigns.

We are a culturally diverse organisation with around 3,000 employees globally and are made up of over 50 nationalities who speak over 100 languages. At the same time, we share a common set of values about how we behave, why we do what we do, and how we work with each other and our clients.

Our 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 we 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 and constructive, and we 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 humour.

Role summary:

Hogarth Worldwide is looking for an exceptional editor to work with an an iconic technology client to provide in-country validation of internal and customer-facing Retail Marketing content. This involves supervising (and reworking) the adaptation of copy originally written in U.S. English, ˚for other markets.  

The ideal candidate should be technically savvy, have a keen eye, and an exceptional attention to detail, ensuring clarity and accuracy in all project copy. He/She should be flexible, adaptable and results-driven, with the skills to work across stakeholders, and an ability to focus and prioritize in a fast-paced, ever changing environment.

You will be required to build strong working relationships with the in-market and global teams to ensure delivery of linguistically and tonally perfect content that will keep the client’s brand ever consistent for customers and employees alike. 

Key responsibilities:

Validating a diverse set of internal and customer-facing content for multiple channels and formats, ensuring linguistic standards, brand guidelines and tone of voice are met. Reviewing, reworking and approving copy from our translation partners to guide and maintain consistency and quality across varying projects and campaign lengths from short copy to long form (10,000 words +).   Cultural market insight, ensuring special attention is paid to whether content is appropriate and correct for the intended market.  Transcreation and LQA for specific content groups as required.  Leveraging glossaries, style guides and TM’s to bring clarity, consistency and accuracy to translations, maintaining the highest possible standards at all times. Keen eye for detail and linguistic precision to ensure all product, programme and technical language is accurate and on-brand.   Able to work independently and as part of a team, collaborating with various stakeholders across an in-country network team.  Managing multiple projects simultaneously and ensuring timely delivery with a flexible, responsive approach to evolving priorities.  Brand guardianship; responsible for keeping product, brand and market knowledge up to date.

Key requirements:

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in copyediting and/or subediting for both marketing and technical materials, preferably for a creative or consumer brand. Native Hong Kong speaker and based in Hong Kong as this role will require you to edit Cantonese and English  Possess familiarity with U.S. English style and usage. As well as a nuanced understanding of language conventions, style and usage. Demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to perform effectively and efficiently under time pressure.  Experience working for global brands. Working knowledge of translation and project management tools and a willingness to learn client specific programs and systems. Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to focus and prioritise in a fast-paced environment. Possess a solid understanding of the creative development and production process. Must be flexible and able to adapt within an environment of change. Ideal candidates will have previous editorial, proofreading, and localisation experience at either an advertising agency, marketing communications group or localisation/transcreation agency.

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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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