Project Manager

This global client develops powerful ideas that help transform businesses and achieve their long-term goals by combining brand strategy, customer experience and expertise of routes-to-market. With a focus specifically on businesses looking to embrace a step-change, and help clients to understand their own cultures and communicate in a way that expresses who they really are.

The Project Manager will be the link between the account team, planners and the creative teams. They will be responsible for prioritising projects and managing resource against the different projects as well as working closely with partner agencies.

What you’ll be doing:

• Schedule time and assign projects to teams in line with overall workflow.
• Run daily creative meeting and be on top of all projects and timings in those meetings.
• They will work closely with the creative team to ensure accurate and timely briefings.
• Ensure all briefs are signed off and all work has been fully signed off before client presentation.
• Attend all review meetings and catch ups and make sure any actions are followed up on.
• They will need to monitor time, run reports and make sure the jobs are not over burning and track time and money spent on projects and the resource required to deliver.
• Manage resource and feed into the agency resource meeting on a Thursday.
• Ensure smooth workflow and project delivery on time and on budget.
• Responsible for arranging and managing project wash up meetings.
• Build good relationships with all departments to make sure we have a strong team performance.

The PM’s expertise in operational and time management will play a key role in arranging all creative meetings from first reviews, WIP’s to presentations and pre-production meetings.

A close working relationship with the Creative Director is vital to this role so that the PM knows the creative ambition and requirements across the projects.

What we’re looking for:

• The project manager will need to have worked across multiple disciplines.
• An understanding and able to navigate production processes.
• Good financial knowledge
• Have the ability to forward plan and anticipate problems before they happen.

Client based by London Liverpool St – hybrid working 2-3 days in office.