Senior Project Manager
47718
Permanent
London
£50,000/ANNUAL
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We are working within one of the world's largest agencies who are looking to recruit a Senior Project Manager to be based onsite at their biggest client, a household name FMCG business based in London.This role will be focused on their Personal Care Division which covers Hair, Skin and Oral Care as well as Skin cleansing and Deodorants and includes many of the world's biggest brands within those sectors. These brands are at the cutting edge of marketing techniques and use in-depth insight for digital strategy and content advertising.
The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for running creative and production processes and working alongside their existing Project Managers to drive a project through from brief to delivery. They work with the Creative Services Manager and Resourcing Team to schedule projects and resource and help source the right talents, both internally and externally, to fulfill projects to the highest standards.
You will need to be great with creative teams and account teams alike, hard working and passionate about creative and producing the best product you can. Process is key, and someone who really respects and understands that, although creative needs freedom, it also needs to follow a framework and process to allow it to thrive.
This role will be underpinned by passion and ambition, and those with experience in running digital content and social campaigns within a creative agency will have an advantage.
You'll need to demonstrate a proven track record of producing multiple complex projects. You should have meticulous attention to detail, understand the importance of the profitability of your projects for the agency and have proven yourself as a safe pair of hands on the day-to-day running of multiple prestigious projects.
Most important, this role requires a courteous, positive and high-energy individual with great people skills
What you will be doing:
Project Set Up
- Take overall ownership of integrated creative projects from brief to fulfillment.
- Work closely with strategy and account teams in preparing advertising strategy and milestones for the client.
- Liaise with clients to determine campaign scope and produce estimates and schedules.
- Identify, exploit and manage ad hoc opportunities when they arise.
- Work with account teams to agree and create timing plans and estimates within the internal Traffic system.
- Estimate complex, cross-platform projects.
Project Delivery
- Schedule projects in line with the correct internal resource and help to source external resources as required
- Ensure projects follow the agency process and are completed on time and on budget.
- Work closely with Digital / TV / Print Producers to identify and unite the skills needed to execute integrated campaigns.
- Motivate and manage teams under tight deadlines.
- Educate and manage internal stakeholders in relevant production processes where necessary.
- Drive efficiency and creative excellence at all times.
Reporting
- Provide job reporting to the Project Director on a regular basis to ensure projects are running correctly, to budget and schedule.
- Ensure they understand how to report and manage operational income for their projects in a timely and accurate manner.
- Escalate any queries concerning invoicing, or estimates provided by the Studio on their projects to the Project Director.
What you will need:
- Experience managing digital and integrated campaigns in a creative and production agency.
- The willingness to ask questions and the innate ability to identify and manage project risk.
- Strong track record in executing campaigns across multiple platforms.
- Used to leveraging the experience of video and photography producers as part of a holistic approach to campaign execution.
- Previous experience of project budget management and scheduling.
- Previous experience of resource and production services sourcing.
- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.
- Have a positive, can-do outlook, willing to leverage past experience to provide the best solution for each project you own.
- Be willing to share your experience where relevant and when it adds to the offering to the client.
- Be financially conscientious when managing the delivery of a project
- Be able to verify the qualitative and quantitative output of a project against the project objectives.
- Act as the first line of contact and digital expert for the Client and Account Mangers in the life cycle of a digital project.
- Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service.
- Knowledge of creating content for CMSs and E-commerce would be a bonus.This really is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to step into both a world class agency and a world class client and make a real impact to their success and to their own career.