East London Creative Studio Project Manager

A Practice for Everyday Life; Greater London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible daily working hours around我们的

An off-site cultural outing bi-monthly

Regular studio socials

Catered team lunches once a month

Increased holiday allowance after 3 in

Studio closure between Christmas and |

Workplace pension scheme

Job summary

APFEL in east London is seeking a Project Manager to join our creative team. This full-time, in-person role (37.5 hours, 5 days) focuses on day-to-day delivery across multiple design projects, keeping briefs, schedules and budgets on track while maintaining clear client communication.

You will collaborate with the studio and clients, shape project scopes, coordinate resourcing, and manage budgets, timelines and production schedules to ensure successful project outcomes.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years' experience managing projects within a design, branding or creative studio, or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence managing clients and building relationships.
• Highly organised and proactive with strong time-management and ability to manage changing priorities across projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of multiple projects, ensuring work stays on brief, on time and on budget.
• Act as a key day-to-day contact for clients, building strong relationships and keeping communication, decisions and actions clear.
• Shape and maintain project scopes and schedules, managing feedback, changes and additional requests as projects progress.
• Coordinate projects across the design team, managing resourcing requirements and identifying scheduling or resource issues early.
• Manage relevant project budgets, creative time, external costs and additional scope in dialogue with Directors.
• Coordinate production schedules, suppliers and specialist partners with the design team, where required.
• Support Directors with project information for new proposals, and help ensure projects are properly completed and documented.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Time management

Collaboration

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Project-management tools

Job description

APFEL in east London is seeking a Project Manager to join our creative team. This full-time, in-person role (37.5 hours, 5 days) focuses on day-to-day delivery across multiple design projects, keeping briefs, schedules and budgets on track while maintaining clear client communication.

You will collaborate with the studio and clients, shape project scopes, coordinate resourcing, and manage budgets, timelines and production schedules to ensure successful project outcomes.