Marketing Project Manager

Our client is a creative integrated marketing agency, carrying out award-winning campaigns for large, global technology companies. 

Their dynamic team of consultants, designers, developers and project managers come from a range of backgrounds, but they all share a passion for developing and executing exemplary integrated campaigns that delight their clients and drive real results.They actively encourage a healthy work-life balance and offer a great working environment.

They are looking for a project manager to work across two of their growing accounts. They’re looking for someone who’s creative, proactive and adaptable - an excellent communicator who is able to think on their feet and doesn’t shy from a challenge.

About the role

The successful applicant will play a pivotal role in running some of their largest B2B technology accounts. You will work closely with the account manager and team, creating and maintaining a clear and detailed overview of everything that’s happening across the account, and helping lead the team to deliver a range of innovative content assets on time, to budget and to an exceptional standard.

Your attitude will be characterised by commitment, energy, attention to detail and dedication to seeking out and developing new ideas, tactics and approaches to continuously enhance your work and delight your clients.

Key responsibilities:

The role involves a variety of tasks, including but not limited to:

• owning overall project planning, management and execution
• drawing up detailed plans for delivering projects on time and to budget
• setting out timelines and milestones
• creating quotes and managing budgets as work is delivered
• acting as liaison between internal colleagues (account team and design studio) and clients to ensure deadlines are met and momentum is maintained.

• Cross-project alignment – where multiple projects are in motion with the same client, ensuring that projects are scheduled so as to maximise resources across teams
• Reporting regularly on progress to clients and senior managers
• Ensuring quality control across deliverables – reviewing content as it is created by the internal team (may be anything from a tweet to an animation to a white paper) to ensure client objectives are met, messaging is aligned and overall quality is exceptional
• Contributing ideas to improve processes and make sure accounts are running as efficiently as possible

Characteristics/ skills:

The successful candidate will be:

• Quick thinking – able to think ahead of our clients and pre-empt their needs, and able to process new information quickly and respond with considered, insightful input.
• Creative – thrives on coming up with new ideas, pushing creative boundaries and challenging the ordinary.
• Diplomatic – comfortable dealing with busy senior clients, sensing their frustrations and responding to their needs positively, constructively and quickly.
• Organised – able to calmly and effectively manage multiple projects, deadlines and stakeholder concurrently.

Experience:

• Experience in marketing project/account management (experience working on clients/accounts in the technology sector strongly preferred)
• Experience managing creative (visual, digital, multimedia) projects from concept to completion