Junior Project Manager (Integrated)
Posted Today by Cheil United Kingdom
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Junior Project Manager serves as the communication liaison between the account management and creative departments, ensuring timely delivery of various creative projects. This role involves managing workflows, facilitating meetings, and maintaining project timelines while fostering collaboration within a small team. The position offers opportunities for career growth through individual goal setting and is situated within a dynamic agency environment. The role requires a proactive attitude and strong communication skills to effectively manage creative resources and project lifecycles.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the communication point of contact between account management and creative departments.
- Traffic work through departments and ensure timely delivery of creative projects.
- Attend daily status meetings and manage effective internal communications.
- Plan creative resources for projects and initiate regular work in progress meetings.
- Communicate project timelines and estimations to account teams.
- Open projects and manage jobs in Jura.
- Ensure job reconciliations are completed four weeks after job completion.
- Provide regular updates on project lifecycles to creatives and account teams.
Key Skills:
- Some project management experience, such as internships.
- Driven and solution-oriented working style.
- Proven ability to work effectively across functions.
- Knowledge of MS Office Suite (PPT, Excel, MS Project, Word).
- Familiarity with the JIRA platform is a plus but not necessary.
- Strong communication skills, fluent in written and spoken English.
- Self-starter with a proactive can-do attitude.
- Collaborative team player capable of developing strong relationships.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Entry Level
Industry: Other
As a Junior Project Manager, you are the communication point of contact between our account management & creative department. You will traffic the work through the departments & push the creative projects through our in-house production company making sure all deliveries are on time. It’s a great opportunity to join a team that cares about the creative output. We are a small team of 15, we all work together to make sure we maximise the best creative result for our clients. There is also an opportunity to grow to the next level of your career with individual goal settings yearly to help you achieve that goal. The type of media you will be managing: Digital Banners, TVC, OLV, Social films, Digital Out of Home, Piccadilly Lights & internal Sizzle reels.
What the day to day looks like: Attending daily status meeting with the whole team at the start of each day. Responsible for effective and efficient internal communications. Responsible for planning your creative resource on your projects. Initiating and maintaining regular (WIP) work in progress meetings with creative, the account management team and relevant dependencies if required. Communicating project timelines and estimations to account teams. Opening projects and managing jobs in Jura. Making sure job reconciliations are finished 4 weeks after job completion. Provide regular updates of the lifecycle of the project to the creatives and account team.
Strings to your bow: Some project management experience such as internships would be good. Driven and solution-orientated working style. Proven ability to work effectively across functions. Some Knowledge in MS office suite (PPT, Excel, MS Project & Word) Woking with the JIRA platform is a plus buy not a necessity. Strong communication skills, fluent written and spoken English.
Who are you? A self-starter with pro-active can-do attitude. A Collaborative person by nature: a team player who can develop strong relationships with internal and external teams across all levels and disciplines.
The Agency… Welcome to Cheil, based in London and Chertsey - a group of thinkers and doers who make things that move. We build campaigns. Shops. Robots. One-of-a-kind-experiences. Anything that transports people, brands and products rooted in digital innovation. It’s an approach that’s seen us partnering with the likes of Absolut, Coca-Cola, Samsung and Jaguar Land Rover, creating enduring ideas for any marker – and within any medium. As a full service agency we’ve got plenty of experience in shopper marketing, experiential, traditional advertising, social, retail design and sponsorship – awards to show for it, too. In the past few years we’ve earned our share of Cannes Lions, Clios, POPAIs and Kinsale Sharks. As part of Cheil Worldwide, Cheil UK plays its part in one of the world’s biggest agency networks – comprising 53 offices and eight affiliates in 42 countries globally.
The perks you can take advantage of in return… A competitive salary 25 days holiday 1 extra day off for moving house 3 extra days off for wedding or Civil Partnership Discounted Samsung products Discretionary company bonus scheme, subject to bonus scheme rules Money off gym membership Stakeholder pension Group Income Protection Private medical insurance Dental insurance Life Assurance Employee Assistance Programme Cycle to work scheme