16 days ago
  • LevelSenior
  • ProfessionsProject Manager, Administrator, Account Manager
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

PURPOSE
The purpose of the Senior Project Manager, Campaigns and Content is to drive department teams, timeline, and delivery across all allocated marketing initiatives. This starts by clearly defining the full project plan, connecting with wider project and business stakeholders to ensure that responsibilities are clear and that everyone is targeting the right project goals. As these progress, all initiative steps will need to be closely followed, with clear risk escalation, scenario planning, collaboration and communication to ensure the success of projects.
This role will ensure the best possible outcome for projects both strategically and creatively, by ensuring each phase is handled to best affect, with timings and milestones suitably protected at each stage of the process. Stakeholder management is a key part of this role, in both bringing together decision making for leadership, as well as raising risks and addressing blockers effectively. To streamline and filter communication to the Head of Project Management, presenting solutions to any potential project issues.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Own the holistic delivery of key business marketing initiatives – from strategic planning to product launch, guiding and facilitating all steps of the process in an inspiring and collaborative way, ensuring teams are progressing as needed in each area.
  • Be responsible for capturing the strategic ambition, deliverables and budget across all areas of your project – in order to understand and bring teams together and decision making according to the project scope.
  • With your role spanning department wide, have the ability to apply your skills across disciplines – while operating at a level that promotes the accountability of others to progress work autonomously, allowing you to maintain full sight of the of work going on across the breadth of initiatives.
  • Establish, communicate and drive project milestones – ensuring that all teams are clear on what is expected of them when in good time and progressing as required.
  • Coordinate multiple teams for successful delivery – from multiple departments to wider business teams as needed to define what’s truly required to deliver the projects in a lean way, creating core working teams to successfully deliver initiatives.
  • Understand the delivery dependencies across all department areas to ensure that all teams receive what’s needed to meet briefs and is delivered at the right time – for wider marketing teams to execute across our global channels.
  • Work to protect the core working groups time – keep individuals focused, as well as being able to confidently present creative thinking in wider business meetings.
  • Drive decision making with teams and senior leadership – to move initiatives forwards in a productive way. You will confidently identify and address issues and risks, with the ability to find solutions to challenging situations, escalating as required to the Head of Project Management.
MEASURES OF SUCCESS
  • Stakeholders feeling continually informed and led by you.
  • Teams will respect the direction you give and deliver upon your requests.
  • Timings protected at each stage of the project.
  • Productive cross functional collaboration.
  • Effective communication.
  • Ensuring good use of project processes, with your projects kept up to date.
EXPERIENCE
  • Capable of driving end to end processes and timings across multiple teams, to ensure the best result for the brand.
  • Excellent at interrogating strategic briefs, rationalising complex information, providing clarity on dependencies to teams.
  • Clearly facilitating decision making across a broad range of senior stakeholders.
  • Have the sensibilities of a creative producer and thus be a trusted partner to creative teams.
  • Proven experience in formal project management roles, ideally working within a similar industry, working closely with creative and marketing teams. Should have experience leading department wide initiatives end to end.
  • Hold first class interpersonal skills, especially meeting management, facilitation, presentations and written communications.
  • Accountable for delivery of projects on time and on budget by leveraging multiple skill sets, so must be able to understand the needs of each team, then balance these to ensure delivery is running effectively.
  • Pro-active and capable of driving the project forwards in a positive way, with a hunger for inspiring change and operational improvement.
  • Ability to form trusted relationships with stakeholders.

Skills Required

  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Build Relationships

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