Role: Project Manager

Location: Hybrid / London, Blackfriars (requirement to be in office x2 days per week)

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Project Manager will lead projects from concept to completion, providing the direction and control required to do this. Building strong relationships with our clients' marketing teams, the Project Manager is the key communicator on the status, risks, and challenges of all the project deliverables, inclusive of budget and resources.

The Project Manager will have a strong understanding of digital disciplines and will be confident working in both agency and in-house creative teams. You will create and facilitate timing plans and will assume responsibility for the review and approval process of creative output - ensuring the projects you own run on time and budget. You will be great with creative teams where you will understand the importance of good briefs and you will be confident educating on the importance of good briefs. You will be hard-working and passionate about good creative work and driving best practices to ensure the best possible output to the brief. You will be driven by efficient and effective processes, and you will be a stickler for detail.

This role will be underpinned by passion and ambition, and those with experience in project managing digital content within a creative agency will have an advantage

ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

Reporting to our Account Director, the Project Manager is responsible for running creative and production processes in collaboration with our client’s creative team. You will have oversight on team capacity, where you will support in proactive planning to ensure new briefs and new requests are being triaged, prioritised, and resourced effectively.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

You’ll be responsible for the triaging of briefs within our client’s creative team where it will be your job to effectively manage expectations with your stakeholders. You will manage the delivery of projects to ensure success as defined by agreed scope and timelines, driving projects through from early stage of initiation to final implementation

WHAT IS REQUIRED:

• A passion for digital marketing and solid experience as a Project Manager in a similar role.
• Organisation of project meetings, communicating and driving actions.
• Taking meeting minutes and updating plans and documents.
• Triaging, scheduling, and resourcing of new briefing requests ensuring requests are delivered in order of importance and prioritisation.
• Co-ordinate between various Marketing Managers during all project phases, encouraging transparency of delivery effort, deliverables, and milestones.
• Working closely with the multiple marketing teams to understand status, issues and risks escalating to our client’s Head of Creative where appropriate.
• Understanding of digital project requirements to support the wider marketing team.
• Build productive working relationships with team members, senior stakeholders and event owners to ensure priorities are understood by all impacted parties.
• Be an advocate for effective project management processes and support the Head of Creative to improve guidelines, templates, and processes – improving and optimising ways of working.
• Reviewing and reporting on project resources and providing an analysis on creative team output.
• Confidence in educating on the importance of good briefs, ensuring the creative team have the best start possible to the project.
• Implementation of project management best practice including, fit-for-purpose briefing templates, briefing kick-off meetings and presentations, and gathering project feedback to ensure continuous improvement.
• Ensuring key Service Level Agreements are met by all parties involved.

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

• Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.
• Exceptional project management skills.
• Overall responsibility for the successful initiation of the project plan and execution with stakeholders, monitoring progress, controlling deadlines and closure of the project
• The ability to develop and put forward the best process designed to improve the efficiency of ways of working.
• The ability to host clear, efficient and productive project meetings for differing stages of the project from kick off, discovery and so on, using a project methodology.
• Great communication skills that are tailored for each of your stakeholders that you work with.
• Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and other related software.
• Confident working autonomously.
• Excellent presentation skills – both written and spoken.
• Events marketing experience.
• Experience in multiple industry sectors, B2B experience is preferred.
• Strong project management experience in a similar role
• Experience working with Monday.com is advantageous.

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

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We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.