Senior Project Manager
LONDON
UP TO £65,000
We are independent, award winning communications agency, with over 140 staff in London, New York and San Francisco.
There isn’t an agency in London where you will learn more, develop faster, be rewarded better or have more fun! We offer a fantastic working environment (when Covid allows!), excellent long-term career opportunities and highly competitive range of industry-leading benefits.
After a period of sustained growth, we’re excited to be expanding our cross-divisional project management team, enabling effective project management processes throughout the agency.
We are looking for a Senior Project Manager with experience in delivering successful integrated projects in an agency environment. This role includes balancing all aspects of project delivery (quality, timelines and budget) while ensuring clear communication across the project team, account teams and clients.
You will report into our Head of Delivery and will work very closely with the Creative Director and Studio / Resource Manager to understand key skillsets available to answer a client brief. You will be responsible for managing and coordinating projects including working collaboratively with account teams to define requirements, document scopes of works, actively manage timelines and produce budgets covering multiple skillsets. You will also take a proactive approach with account teams and clients to discover new opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and own end to end delivery of projects
- Ensure that projects are being delivered on time and to budget
- Identify resources required to deliver the project, working with the studio/ resource manager to book required creative/ production project members
- Take responsibility for overall quality of project deliverables and organise appropriate quality control checks, ensuring that client standards, processes and brand guidelines are met
- Ensure all stakeholders and members of project team are aware of their own roles and responsibilities and kept informed and regularly updated on project progress
- Revenue reporting to the Head of Delivery and the finance team
- Build relationships across the agency, educating on project management best practices and assist in identifying solutions and generate project opportunities
- Mentor junior members of staff within the project management team
Skills:
- Proven track record managing all aspects of project delivery
- Strong communication across all levels of the organisational chain and relationship building skills
- The ability to work under pressure and multi-task efficiently
- Manage budgets and timelines effectively
- Cast and host project team meetings and status updates
- Ability to identify opportunities and proactively identify and solve issues that may arise
- Basic understanding of Adobe suite; photoshop, illustrator and InDesign
Experience:
Ideally, you will have had up to 5 years agency experience and worked closely with designers, animators & developers previously. Exposure to digital, print, animation and art working is desirable.
Benefits include but not limited to:
- Hybrid working model
- 25 days annual leave
- Private Health Care
- Dental Care
- Wide range of training
We are an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds. We believe a diverse and inclusive workforce enhances our ability to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status or citizenship status.
Please apply with your CV and portfolio to; nikki@livelihoodlondon.com