Role: Senior Project Manager (FTC - 14 months)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid x3 Days onsite)

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Senior client facing Project Manager will join one of OLIVER’s most awarded creative account, a world-renowned publishing brand. This is a pivotal role within the agency and will ensure the smooth creation of award-winning creative work. 

The role requires a natural people person who is confident bringing together and leading clients, creative and design teams to deliver award winning integrated campaigns across the full marketing mix. You’ll be responsible for owning the creative process working alongside our existing talented team to drive projects from brief to delivery scheduling work and ensuring the right talent is assigned to fulfill projects to the highest standards.

The right candidate will have a love of great creative and an appreciation of the craft it takes to deliver it well and be experienced in juggling multiple integrated projects across various channels including ATL / BLT, digital and CRM.

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...

You are a diligent, positive, and high-energy individual with great people skills and a solid agency background. As an excellent relationship-builder, you will need to be great with creative teams, and clients alike, hard-working, and passionate about producing the best creative product you can.

A self-motivated problem solver who can see the bigger picture, anticipate the clients next move, and identify changes that could be made to enhance the team’s performance, processes, and the client relationship. Be able to manage expectations well, being clear and transparent with all agency and clients and stakeholders involved. You’ll have a natural curiosity and get to know the client’s business, becoming a true partner, guiding them on best practice, pushing for brilliant creative and challenging where necessarily whilst maintaining a positive relationship.

An energetic, enthusiastic multitasker with a meticulous attention to detail. A natural team player who is unafraid to voice opinions and play a key role in our intelligent, hard-working, and fun-loving team and company. You’re someone who not only understand process but also looks for ways to improve based on efficiency. Financial savvy able to fully scope projects, forecast and manage billing where required. Most importantly, you will establish yourself as a safe pair of hands ensuring nothing falls through the cracks on projects and day to day management of the account.

You are an advocate for promoting positive sustainable behaviours and able to put a sustainability lens on the strategic and creative process.

You will be open and willing to attend Change the Brief training and soak up recommended research and reading about sustainability issues.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

• Lead projects independently including, client kick off and internal WIP meetings, etc. Hold daily stand ups as required, providing detailed status updates with clear next steps and ownership against actions
• Own the end-to-end process of projects across offline and digital, creative, Design, Artwork and Digital Build, through to Final Delivery to Media Partners.
• Management of workflow pipeline, upcoming briefs and resource requirement keeping client and agency teams accountable to deadlines and processes.
• Monitor and allocate resource for upcoming briefs, solving resource requirement in advance on bottle necks occurring.
• Drive project efficiency and creative excellence at all times.
• Work collaboratively, motivate and encourage the teams ensuring all team members remain focused on delivering the best work possible and feel supported in doing so.
• Create and communicate project estimates and timelines, effectively measuring progress against each throughout the delivery process to ensure projects deliver on brief, on time, and on budget.
• Driving consistencies and efficiencies across all agency communications, creative and formal presentations
• Be seen as the voice of reason, getting under the skin of your projects and presenting all problems with a solution.
• Working closely with the account’s Business Director, you’ll drive an inspirational, creative culture across both agency and client teams.

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• Experience working in a fast-paced agency environment with the ability to prioritize multiple time sensitive tasks
• Work well under pressure with strong attention to detail and consistency.
• Highly organised with a logical, solution focused approach to challenges.
• The ability to monitor work closely and manage team members to meet tight deadlines implementing change management to a project plan as necessary.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and willing to learn the key skills for running a business.

NECESSARY EXPERIENCE

•  6+ Years’ experience managing creative, design, build and artwork process from initial briefing to delivery.
• CRM and integrated experience would be beneficial
• Competent efficiency in Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and project planning software is a plus
• Sound understanding of production process within a fast-paced, creative environment.
• Good understanding of project finances and commercials – estimating, timings, costs and invoicing.
• Confident communication skills with internal teams, discipline leads and client services.
• Track record in executing campaigns across multiple platforms.
• Booking and managing resource.
• Experience dealing directly with clients is essential

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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. 

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