Job Ref: 213632870

Date: 2021-04-27 19:13:48

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Role: Project Manager
Level: Middleweight to Senior
Type: Fulltime
Location: Marlow (fulltime on site)
Salary: 35-40K
Start Date: ASAP

CLIENT SPEC:

We are on the lookout for a motivated, passionate and ambitious Project Manager to join our busy, rapidly growing and global strategy-led design agency.

Why do we exist?
To challenge, change and make better. This is our fundamental belief that we apply to everything we do. So, whilst we help solve business problems, we also give our people opportunities and a home to build a successful career. Our reasons for existence are completely synonymous – we believe the latter will always drive the former.

The Senior Project Manager will report directly into the Project Director. This role will revolve around delivering a wide range of creative projects ensuring they are on time, on brief, on brand and on budget. Our project managers are a likeable bunch and strive to keep production teams motivated and producing super high-quality work is paramount.

While our environment is collaborative and supportive we thrive on candidates that are proactive, take accountability and really own their work, the ability to hit the ground running is a very desirable trait.

Key Responsibilities

● Bring passion to working to deliver brilliant work
● Understanding of the branding and design space (creative, strategy to production) and ability to direct a team of this make-up.
● Build and developing project scopes of work and delivering against them
● Work collaboratively across the business, take responsibility for project delivery
● Communicate with clients to fully understand objectives and requirements
● Brief the team and contribute to the creation and delivery of creative output
● Building relationships with clients through understanding and communication
● Demonstrate expertise in planning, coordination, management and communication skills
● Manage project workflow through appropriate software and/or systems
● Manage the commercial and budgetary aspects of every project
● Book and manage internal resource
● Source and book external partners and suppliers as required

The ideal candidate

● Minimum 7 years proven creative agency experience, working with big brands and delivering multiple projects
● A passion for best practice, client satisfaction, and consistency of process and service across projects, big or small.
● Experience or a willingness to mentor more junior team members of the project management team, managing
their capacity and encouraging growth and improvement.
● Excellent eye for QC.
● Understanding of the creative process and the creative resource needed
● Able to work autonomously but thrives working collaboratively
● Nothing is too much trouble
● Understand the quality of the work is the number one priority
● Good communicator, both internally and with clients
● Think on your feet, make proactive decisions to keep projects moving forward
● Able to coordinate a number of projects simultaneously
● High emotional intelligence, a desire to get things done
● Strategic-thinker able to see the big picture
● Ambitious and keen to take opportunities
● Willing to be frank and honest
● You are a kind human

Key Results Areas

● Contribute to maintaining and improving our highest creative standards
● Deliver work on time, in budget, against scope and beyond expectations
● Develop relationships with your clients that produce ongoing work
● Keep learning and take control of your self-development

Benefits

You will be part of a team that wants to challenge, change and make better all aspects of business and life.
Along with that you’ll also receive:

● Competitive salary, with regular reviews and opportunities to progress
● 23 days holiday
● Cultural Learning Days
● Flexible Working
● A contributory pension scheme
● Private medical healthcare
● Group life assurance
● Christmas Trip abroad

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