Marketing Project Manager

twentysix; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Training opportunities

Pension

Medical insurance

Life assurance

Social events

Holiday buy/sell

Family friendly policies

Retail discounts

Job summary

VML, part of WPP, is seeking a Project Manager to lead marketing projects across designated markets, coordinating between Global teams and regional markets. You will manage print collateral, websites, and digital tools, ensuring timely delivery and brand consistency while building strong client relationships.

The role requires managing timelines, budgets, and escalation when needed, with a hybrid work setup and emphasis on cross-functional collaboration to meet strict SLAs.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing marketing projects, such as print collateral (brochures), web platforms, and digital interactive tools.
• Proven ability to manage project timelines and budgets.
• Track record of deploying centralized global assets into regional/local markets, maintaining brand consistency.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all organizational levels, with concise briefing document writing.

Responsibilities

• Lead your designated market, be the main point of contact for issue resolution, escalating when required.
• Manage your clients to successfully deliver print collateral and launch websites according to agreed timings for their market(s).
• Build strong relationships with your JLR Global and local clients.
• Understand that the Project Manager role reports to JLR Global and that delivery of translated Global assets into local markets is the core objective.
• Ensure timely communication of changes, updates, and work to clients.
• Become a market specialist by understanding each market and taking ownership of projects.
• Ensure all timings in the critical path are adhered to without fail.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external Agency partners to resolve issues.
• Work with Senior Project Manager to establish and manage project plans through to delivery.
• When deadlines cannot be met, develop a manageable contingency plan with the SPM.
• Update status reports daily and complete timesheets.
• Write clear briefing documents for all stages of project delivery.
• Understand the overall critical path and client SLAs for delivery.

Skills

Project management

Marketing projects

Budget management

Timeline management

Stakeholder management

Global asset deployment

Communication

Job description

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

The opportunity

The focus of the Project Manager is to manage the delivery of projects within a specific market remit. Operating as the main Project Manager for market coordination between the Global team and key regions and markets, the Project Manager will manage all elements of market coordination across three core channels: brochures, websites, and the digital configurator, as well as having specific responsibility for resolving issues at a regional level.

The Project Manager will be capable and confident in resolving issues and able to work autonomously. This role is pivotal to our internal global organization, with the dedicated regional markets serving as the primary client base. This is a truly global position that requires someone who can manage expectations, deliver projects against tight timelines, and communicate effectively across all levels.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead your designated market, be the main point of contact for issue resolution, but escalated when required
• Manage your clients to successfully deliver print collateral and launch websites according to agreed timings for their designated market(s)
• Build strong and robust relationships with your JLR Global and local clients
• Understand that the Project Manager role reports to JLR Global and that the delivery of translated Global assets into local market is the role’s core objective, rather than the localisation of Global assets
• Ensure you are communicating effectively any changes, updates, work coming in regularly to your clients
• Become a ‘market specialist’ – understanding each of the markets in depth and taking ownership for identified projects
• Ensure all timings in the critical path are adhered to without fail
• Collaborate with internal teams and the external Agency partners to resolve issues
• Working with Senior Project Manager to establish and manage project plans through to delivery
• Where deadlines cannot be met, then work with the SPM to work up a manageable contingency plan
• Update status reports daily and complete timesheets
• Understand and adhere to the WoWs and processes
• Write clear and concise briefing documents in a timely manner for all stages of the project delivery to enable teams to act quickly on all instructions
• Understand the overall critical path for the market projects and the client agreed SLA’s for delivery
• Take responsibility for all QC and ensuring the correct approval signatures have been given both internally and externally

What we want from you

• Experience in managing marketing projects, such as: print collateral (brochures), web platforms, and digital interactive tools
• You will have previously worked as a project manager withing large marketing projects
• Proven ability to manage project timelines and budgets
• Track record of deploying centralized global assets into regional/local markets, maintaining brand consistency rather than creating ad-hoc local assets.
• Exceptional ability to build and maintain strong relationships with global teams, regional clients, and external agency partners, acting as a trusted main point of contact.
• Outstanding time-management skills with a proven history of strictly adhering to critical paths, SLAs, and tight project deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all organizational levels, with a track record of writing clear, concise briefing documents that drive quick, actionable outcomes.
• attention to detail with strict adherence to approval processes, quality control standards, daily status reporting, and established Ways of Working
• Ability to rapidly gain deep domain knowledge of assigned geographic markets to serve as an authoritative "market specialist."

What we can offer you

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

Permanent only: We offer a great benefits package including a discretionary bonus scheme, training opportunities, competitive pension, medical insurance, life assurance, social events, opportunities to buy and sell holidays, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more.

Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.

We lead with Heart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish. We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges. And we champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

How we use AI in the recruitment process: To ensure more focused and engaging conversations, we leverage AI in our recruitment processexclusively for secure, objective note-taking, never for evaluative judgments. This allows our team to be fully present with you. You are always welcome torequest a transcript of these notes or opt outof this feature at any time. Opting out will not impact the outcome of the interview process.

#LI-EMEA

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office an average of four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

VML is a WPP agency (NYSE: WPP). For more information,please visit www.vml.com, andfollowalong on Instagram,LinkedIn, andX.