Hybrid Project Manager – Brand Engagement

at Radley Yeldar

• Job title: Project Manager – Brand Engagement
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Project Manager overseeing brand engagement projects in a creative agency. Ensuring timely and budget-aligned delivery while building client relationships and leading project teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading the delivery of small to medium sized projects, from scoping and estimation, through to production, QA and wash up and supporting senior-level project management in the delivery of larger, more complex programmes of work.
• Ensuring RY processes are followed and that projects are run on time, on budget and with crystal clear understanding of the brief.
• Building trusted relationships and managing expectations with clients, dealing with day-to-day requests and consistently delivering excellent service.
• Writing Statements of Work (SOW) and defining the assumptions, dependencies and deliverables within these, managing and documenting any changes as required.
• Understanding the commercial models agreed for each project and ensuring the project is delivered against them.
• Helping to produce regular reconciliations and proactively providing update reports to the client.
• Mitigating against risks and tracking issues, escalating concerns to senior-level project management before they become critical.
• Ensuring payment plans, billing, POs and client financial information are accurate and completed on time.
• Ensuring timesheets and resourcing are complete and actively managed, including resolving day to day issues.
• Building strong team relationships within the PM team and across RY, ensuring all members of the project teams know their role and what is expected of them.
• Leading project-related meetings, including reviews, statuses and wash-ups.
• Being able to define and redefine your priorities, to ensure the most crucial work is being done first.

Requirements

• Previous project management experience, ideally gained within a creative or design agency
• Experience of working in brand, campaigns, and employee experience
• A well organised and a logical thinker
• An enthusiastic team player who relishes developing good working relationships with colleagues across different areas of the business
• An exceptional eye for detail, proactively flagging mistakes or when work goes off-brief
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• An excellent listener and interpreter of what is being said in meetings
• Bright, ambitious, and looking to progress in a fast-paced, challenging work environment
• A good balance of IQ and EQ, someone who is believable and a ‘safe pair of hands’
• Bring energy and determination to every task
• A nice person, with oodles of energy and infectious enthusiasm.