Project Manager 6-Month Fixed Term Contract | Leading Creative Agency | Hybrid 3 days in London
Posted 3 days ago by Direct Recruitment
£52,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Manager role is a 6-month fixed-term contract within a leading creative agency, focusing on delivering large-scale, multi-channel marketing campaigns. The position requires a proactive individual who excels in managing complex projects across various media, including digital and print. The role involves significant stakeholder engagement and project management responsibilities, ensuring effective communication and timely delivery of marketing initiatives. This is an opportunity to contribute to strategic marketing efforts while collaborating with a high-performing team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting the planning and delivery of a full-scale communications change across Direct and Digital marketing activity
- Acting as the key PM liaison across all implementation phases
- Managing the rollout of messaging updates, including URL changes and bilingual comms
- Briefing production teams, leading proofing clinics, and liaising with translation agency for approvals
- Maintaining detailed project plans, high-level milestones, and realistic timetables
- Managing workflows across project management tools (Workfront and TOMI)
- Completing weekly revenue reconciliation reports supported by burn charts
- Monitoring resource clashes and proactively managing priorities
- Ensuring all work leaves with the correct approvals in place
- Keeping all stakeholders informed and expectations well managed
Key Skills:
- Proven end-to-end project management experience across large and small, online and offline projects
- Ability to manage large-scale delivery with multiple work streams
- Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels
- Sharp attention to detail and a problem-solving mindset
- Familiarity with project management methodologies
- Driven, curious, and eager to learn
Salary (Rate): £52,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Marketing
Project Manager 6-Month Fixed Term Contract | Leading Creative Agency £45-52k Hybrid: 3 days in office / 2 days remote
The Role
We're looking for a bright, confident Project Manager to join a high-performing team delivering large-scale, multi-channel marketing campaigns. This is a fast-paced, varied role at the heart of a major communications change project, ideal for someone who thrives on complexity and loves getting things done. You'll be working across data, print, and digital projects, with deliverables spanning web pages, emails, banners, social, DM, OOH, and brand assets.
What You'll Be Doing
Comms Change Project
- Supporting the planning and delivery of a full-scale communications change across Direct and Digital marketing activity
- Acting as the key PM liaison across all implementation phases
- Managing the rollout of messaging updates, including URL changes and bilingual comms
- Briefing production teams, leading proofing clinics, and liaising with translation agency for approvals
- Working across DM, email, stakeholder literature, web PDFs, digital display, social, and web
Day-to-Day Project Management
- Maintaining detailed project plans, high-level milestones, and realistic timetables
- Managing workflows across project management tools (Workfront and TOMI)
- Completing weekly revenue reconciliation reports supported by burn charts
- Monitoring resource clashes and proactively managing priorities
- Ensuring all work leaves with the correct approvals in place
- Keeping all stakeholders informed and expectations well managed
What We're Looking For
- Proven end-to-end project management experience across large and small, online and offline projects
- Ability to manage large-scale delivery with multiple work streams
- Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels
- Sharp attention to detail and a problem-solving mindset
- Familiarity with project management methodologies
- Driven, curious, and eager to learn
Why This Role?
This is one of the most multi-faceted PM roles you'll find on a 6-month contract: You'll have genuine input into marketing strategy and communications, not just execution You'll work across campaigns reaching a national audience across multiple channels You'll collaborate with and learn from specialists in strategy, data, research, and behavioural sciences If this sounds like the role for you, apply today!