Project Manager/ Designer

Tag; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Parental leave

Training & development

Mentoring program

Job summary

Tag in Melbourne is seeking a Project Manager with design experience to partner with internal teams and lead multi-channel creative productions. You will manage timelines, budgets, briefs, and client expectations across digital, video and print, balancing 80% project management with 20% design tasks.

Based in Melbourne, you will collaborate with our Sydney and Melbourne teams, maintain strong stakeholder relationships, and ensure on-time, on-brand delivery for our global client portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experience managing creative production projects across digital, video and print.
• Ability to balance design amendments with project management.
• Strong client and internal stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop client and stakeholder relationships.
• Receive multiple client briefs, clarify, feedback, coordinate and action on client amends.
• Prioritize and personally execute simple design amends to meet local turnaround but brief complex design amends across to the studio.
• Create and update project timelines to coordinate projects and on-schedule delivery.
• Strong working relationship to traffic workload across the studio and project teams.
• Brand Guardian and responsible for quality control of materials before client release.
• Identify and implement process efficiencies to best suit client needs
• Deliver constructive feedback to internal stakeholders and studio teams.
• Responsible for project completion, invoicing preparation, and administration.
• Tracking and measurement against key performance indicators and metrics
• Full ownership of end-to-end complex creative design projects including commercial responsibilities
• Identify emerging design trends and lead the integration of trends into new work
• Coordinate production deadlines across all key stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Multi-channel coordination

Budget control

Tools

Asana

MS Office

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

At Tag, we bring big ideas to life as an integrated creative, content and channel activation partner to brands all over the globe. We help our clients to stand out and sell more by providing end-to-end marketing solutions that see our teams originate, craft, amplify and reimagine content across all channels and platforms.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join one of Tag’s fasted growing regions globally. Our teams based across Sydney and Melbourne, pride ourselves on our core values of integrity, innovation, trust, sustainability, growth, and accountability.

We realise these are easy to say but below is a snapshot of what this looks like each day here at Tag:

• 50% of our leadership team is female.
• 14% of our team have grown their careers from internship positions.
• 86% team retention over the past twelve months
• Strong career growth opportunities with twenty-five promotions in the past twelve months
• 3x official charity partners we have donated $30,000 in money and time
• DE&I Council organises regular events and social activities.

What we offer:

• 2 days per week in-office at our Cremorne HQ and 1day at client site with 2 days working from home.
• An inclusive parental leave policy.
• Investment in internal and external training and professional development.
• A structured global mentoring program.

Role Overview:

The Project Manager with design role is for those who prefer to partner closely with internal stakeholders, are deadline-driven and enjoys operational delivery within a team. They will be responsible for the overall planning, control, status reporting and delivery of project across our client teams. They will ensure the successful delivery of project objectives within the agreed-upon time, scope, budget, and resource requirements.

The Project Manager with design will have experience over multi-channels (digital, video and print) as you they will be responsible for managing different types of creative production projects. The development focus will be on giving you greater exposure to a variety of different briefs including large-scale client briefs, as you look to take your next step within project management.

This is a dual role so part of the role will balance briefing work into the studio and managing that delivery or doing some of the design amendments on your own. It is expected that an approximate balance between the two is 80% of project management / 20% of design. Aligning the client expectations on this will become key to the success.

While there will be a focus on internal stakeholder relationships, the Project Manager will also be responsible for client relationships when an Account Manager is not included.

Key Responsibilities:

Own

• Build and develop a range of client and third-party stakeholder relationships.
• Receive multiple client briefs, clarify, feedback, coordinate and action on client amends.
• Prioritize and personally execute simple design amends to meet local turnaround but brief complex design amends across to the studio.
• Create and update project timelines to coordinate projects and on-schedule delivery.
• Strong working relationship to traffic workload across the studio and project teams.
• Brand Guardian and responsible for quality control of materials before client release.
• Identify and implement process efficiencies to best suit client needs
• Deliver constructive feedback to internal stakeholders and studio teams.
• Responsible for project completion, invoicing preparation, and administration.
• Tracking and measurement against key performance indicators and metrics
• Full ownership of end-to-end complex creative design projects including commercial responsibilities
• Identify emerging design trends and lead the integration of trends into new work
• Coordinate production deadlines across all key stakeholders.

Support

• Build and maintain client case study collateral highlighting best-in-class projects.
• Provide coaching and guidance to more junior client service teams.
• Knowledge sharing and feedback culture within the design team.

Develop

• A comprehensive understanding of Tag’s full capability offering.

This job description outlines the duties and responsibilities of the role and the necessary skills and knowledge required to perform them as of the date it was created. Tag accepts that this job description may change as the role evolves and the individual may be asked to support other duties as required.

All information provided will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purposes.