Leading multi-award winning Creative Advertising agency are looking for an Integrated Project Manager to join their team.. A little bit about the role… This would suit someone with 2 + years of advertising experience.. As an Integrated Project Manager you will be the operational day-to-day lead on key pieces of agency business, becoming wholly trusted and relied upon by your agency team in the running of your account and the agency internal processes.
You will be the driving force behind your accounts and projects, always proactive, displaying passion for creativity and technology, sharing this with the creative teams during the creative development process and improving the creative product where possible.
As a member of the Project Management team, you will be working on projects with multiple channel deliverables.
You will be responsible for driving multi-disciplinary teams of people to successfully deliver integrated projects on time and on budget.
You will work closely with the commercial finance team to ensure client profitability, taking ownership of project scope and fees.
Required Skills: - Proven experience of managing integrated multi-channel projects and/or programs of multiple projects.
Passionate about good creative work and technology, striving to ensure the highest standards of both.
A highly organised problem solver with the ability to work without/limited supervision, multi-task and to provide leadership within a project team.
Excellent relationship building skills.
Strong leadership and team management skills.
A proactive, positive 'can do' attitude.
Excellent budget and time planning skills.
Experience of scoping and good knowledge of risk management skills and techniques.
Hunger for personal development and knowledge across all channels of production.
- Solid verbal and written communication skills.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES - Upstream management of Agency/Client workflow including proactive creation of multichannel timing plans and maintenance of client status reports as necessary.
- Planning and management of agency resources and staffing throughout the project lifecycle.
- Management and oversight of project scope and/or retainers where appropriate.
- Establishes and maintains project and/or program communications through project.
- Proactive stakeholder management throughout project lifecycle including running status meetings and maintenance and approval of all project documentation.
- Management of project finances including tracking of all investment (agency) budgets.
- Ownership of the creative development phases including leading kick-off meetings, creative reviews and any integrated production meetings.
- Proactive research and sharing of technology and production solutions during the creative development stages to maintain the highest possible creative standards.
- Partner with production specialists as required to inform and approve production decisions where necessary.
- Ensure all concepts and project documentation is approved prior to client presentation.
- Program management and oversight of delivery in conjunction with Integrated Production specialists.
- Creation and management of final wash up meeting to inform process changes for future projects.
- Management of estimates, purchasing and invoice approvals for third party costs where necessary.
We are committed to ensuring and supporting representation from all backgrounds across the creative industry, irrespective of race, religion, belief, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or socio-economic background.
With this in mind, we welcome applications from all areas of the community.
Please do get in touch and let us know if there is any additional support or reasonable adjustments we can cater for, to ensure our process and roles fit your needs and creates a comfortable & enjoyable recruitment process