Junior Project Manager

The White Company; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail brand in London is seeking a Junior Project Manager to support creative operations team. The role involves planning and delivery of design projects, managing cross-department communication, and ensuring timely project milestones. The ideal candidate has experience in project management, excellent organizational skills, and a proactive attitude. This position offers competitive benefits and opportunities for development.

Benefits

50% discount on products

25-28 days holiday

Pension Scheme

Private Healthcare

Continued Development

Volunteer Day

Qualifications

• Experience in a project management role within a retail, fashion, or lifestyle brand.
• Understanding of the creative process from brief to delivery.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support production of creative content and design projects.
• Maintain project plans and critical path calendar.
• Communicate across departments to ensure alignment.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Project management

Problem-solving

Tools

Asana

Scheduling tools

Job description

Overview

Our Role

As Junior Project Manager in the Creative Operations team, you will play a key supporting role in the planning and delivery of creative and design projects for the brand, alongside the delivery of seasonal assets across fashion, interiors, and campaign shoots. Working closely with our in-house production, marketing and creative teams, you will help to ensure that our projects run smoothly, efficiently, and on time.

Reporting to the Senior Creative Operations Manager, this role is a great opportunity to hone your project management and operations skills, learn best-in-class processes, and play an important part in bringing The White Company brand to life through beautiful, elevated storytelling.

This is a hands-on, fast-paced role suited to someone with some experience working for a retailer or brand, who understands the creative process and thrives in a busy studio environment. You will support the team and your manager to deliver projects on our critical path and can confidently traffic work through the business in an efficient manner.

What you'll be doing

• Support the production of creative content and design projects for the brand (campaign, stills, motion, digital, design) by helping to scope each project: defining deliverables, timelines, and resource needs alongside senior producers, marketing and creative leads.
• Maintain and update project plans and the critical path calendar, ensuring internal teams have visibility of timelines and milestones and hit deadlines
• Track project brief deliverables, helping to monitor time and productivity on Asana
• Manage cross-department communication: liaise regularly with Creative, Marketing, E-commerce, Buying to ensure alignment, setting meetings, agendas and meeting notes/actions to keep on track
• Support quality control: ensure all creative output meets brand standards by coordinating internal reviews and sign-offs, and that all work is reviewed according to brief, and is signed off promptly
• Identify risks or potential delays early and flag to senior management with proposed solutions
• Manage multiple projects in parallel, prioritising tasks, tracking progress, and shifting resources as needed to meet deadlines
• Help refine, introduce and improve production workflow and processes (e.g. brief formats, review cycles, asset management tools and QA, project trafficking tools) for greater efficiencies

What Skills & Experience You’ll Need

• Experience in a production management, creative ops or project management role within a retail, fashion, or lifestyle brand (or creative agency supporting retail brands).
• An understanding of the creative process - from brief to project milestones to final delivery and asset/file delivery.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to work to deadlines in a fast-paced studio environment.
• Confident working with multiple stakeholders and departments to ensure smooth handovers and timely delivery.
• Familiarity with scheduling tools, project management workflows, and digital asset management platforms.
• A proactive, can-do attitude with a solution-oriented, attention to detail-led approach.
• Eager to learn and grow within a dynamic creative production team.

What we’ll offer you

At The White Company, we value our employees for always going the extra mile for every one of our customers; we reward this with great benefits and competitive salaries.

• Discount - Up to 50% discount and access to regular Sample Sales
• Holiday - 25 days rising to 28 with length of service
• Holiday Buy – opportunity to buy up to 5 days holiday
• Pension Scheme - enrolled in our Group Personal Pension schemes upon joining the business.
• Bonus - In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility)
• Perkplace Benefits Platform – offering a variety of discounts across well-being and lifestyle
• Wagestream Money Management app - access to Wagestream gives you power over your pay and supports financial wellbeing
• Continued Development – We offer structured support from our own in-house Learning and Development Hub
• Salary Sacrifice scheme for Electric vehicles (dependent on grade and meeting policy eligibility)
• Continued Development - Inclusion on our Leadership Development Programme (eligibility for contracts of 6 months plus Grade D & E roles only)
• Continued Development – We offer structured support from our own in-house Learning and Development Hub
• Private Healthcare with additional Babylon Digital Healthcare (based on contract duration)
• Life Assurance

Additional Benefits

• Fruit basket daily
• Tea and coffee provided
• Working from Home - option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays
• Social - Christmas party/social events throughout the year
• Seasonal Sample Sales
• Volunteer Day - with a charity of your choice
• Great Location - Close to transport links - over ground Shepherds Bush station /underground White City & Wood Lane stations. Westfield shopping centre with shops restaurants/bars/cinema and gyms

Our Equality Diversity and Inclusion statement of commitment

At The White Company we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and identities.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where people can bring their authentic selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated. Where difference is respected, encouraged, and celebrated. Where you can feel you belong.

We are committed to an active Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process.

We'd love you to join us on our journey.

Our Sustainability statement of commitment

We are committed to building a sustainable legacy that will enable a brighter future for people and our planet.’ We believe this should be reflected in everything we do.