We’re VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few. 

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH.

We’re looking for a Project Manager with a love for social to join our growing team in London!

You’ll join an established team and help to continue to improve upon existing processes across workstreams, while continuing to expand the remit and growth of the account.

You should ideally have an understanding of social media, comfortability and experience with digital production, coupled with the foundational project management skills to help support the day to day running of the agency’s accounts. 

Here’s where you come in…

• Own, operate and ensure the successful delivery of the project, to planned budget, scope and quality.
• Organise communications to ensure smooth operating of the project, both internally and with the client throughout the project life cycle.
• Management of project scope, with confidence in negotiating client discussions relating to changing circumstances including effort, resource, time and quality.
• Carefully construct a program of work for the project team, with clear understanding of responsibilities and crafts owned by creative, media, production and client teams.
• Develop planning artefacts (timelines, processes, task sheets etc) in order to ensure the project can continue to be clearly conveyed and understood by both the internal team, your direct report, and the client stakeholder.
• Escalate through constructive means, any project risks, issues or concerns with clarified options for mitigation.
• Utilise operational tools and teams (finance, resourcing) to ensure your project has the correct support to function successfully and that its bottom-line performance is being carefully tracked and reported.

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

• Proficient in project management tools and systems
• Numerate and operational in thinking on project performance and financial management of project bottom line
• Able to manage multiple projects as a single programme
• Takes a self-organising approach to project governance, utilising agency best practises and principles
• Experience delivering integrated, digital and social campaigns with learning examples
• Strategic in project approach, high acumen in factoring business opportunity and balancing risk and cost.
• Has the ability to stay solution-oriented with cross-functional, cross-disciplined teams in a client-facing environment
• Previous experience working with influencer campaigns would be a nice addition
• Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced, high-energy environment
• Highly organised, detail oriented and adaptable 
• Excellent written and verbal communication to synthesise, plan and execute
• Collaborative by nature and can help foster communication amongst the team

Here’s how We Support You

We regularly review our benefits and are committed to providing a comprehensive programme for our people.

• Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
• Perkbox (online discount platform with 250 perks available).
• Journey EAP - proactive and crisis support with life concierge services
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Unlimited Coaching sessions, which can be private and team class sessions
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)
• Cash Plan with Medicash - Level 1 cover, option to add partner, 4 children can be added for free
• Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class. 

Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.K.