Project Manager

MG Empower Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global marketing agency is seeking a Project Manager to deliver high-quality projects for global clients. This role requires 3-5 years of project management experience, with a proven track record in creative campaigns and brand activations. Strong organizational, communication, problem-solving skills, and a passion for creativity are essential. The role demands a detail-oriented professional capable of managing timelines and budgets while ensuring seamless collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. Flexibility in work hours and travel is needed.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in project management, ideally in production or campaign lead projects.
• Proven experience delivering creative campaigns and brand activations.
• Strong understanding of experiential marketing and content production processes.
• Detail-oriented and comfortable managing timelines and budgets.
• Genuine passion for creativity and culture.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end project delivery for global clients.
• Ensure seamless project management across event experiences.
• Maintain accurate finance trackers and uphold profit margins.
• Communicate budget and resourcing expectations clearly.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with projects.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Negotiation

Tools

Financial management tools

Project management tools

Job description

MG Empower is a global integrated marketing agency.
We architect transformative strategies and brand initiatives at the crossroads of culture, creativity, and technology.

We don’t just consult, we partner. We deliver across influence, social, content, brand experience, media, and creative execution,
making sure our ideas are seamless, culturally relevant, and performance driven.

From beauty and lifestyle to tech, fashion, FMCG, hospitality, and food & beverage, we solve for the full spectrum of brand challenges globally.

Where others see markets, we see cultural universes. Where others see channels, we see opportunity.

Role Overview

Our Project Manager is a key member of the Project Delivery Team. You are hands on in the successful delivery of projects across a series of global clients. The majority of your role will entail the successful management production‑led campaigns (experiential and content), confidently navigating internal and external teams in a strategic and commercially‑minded manner.

At the core of your role you will be accountable for managing end‑to‑end project delivery, ensuring on‑time, on‑budget, well‑resourced and high‑quality outcomes across all deliverables. It’s critical that you understand all elements of the creative and production process and have an appreciation for the time and logistics involved in delivering high quality projects.

About you: You’re an excellent communicator, highly organised and a problem solver with a genuine enthusiasm for the industry and the work we are creating. You are able to manage both up and down with conviction.

Your everyday ambition should be to: Ensure seamless project management across event experiences and creative campaigns. Contributing meaningfully to the storytelling, strategy, and the creative output with most importantly ensuring these elements are upheld from concept through to delivery.

So that you know you’re achieving success, here’s an overview of the core elements and expectations within your role:

You are accountable for:

• Planning and time management: Defining project team, milestones and timelines that are both realistic and responsive to each opportunity, and ensuring these are managed and resourced effectively throughout the campaign/ project lifecycle.
• Communications: Clear communication on budget, timings, expectations and resourcing between internal teams, third‑parties and clients.
• Commercials: Continually reviewing live project commercials, ensuring finance trackers and tools are accurate and up to date and that profit margins are maintained.
• Resource management: Managing day‑to‑day team resources and actions on your projects.
• Third Party Management: Overseeing, managing and contracting with negotiations of all third parties when external services and professionals need to be hired.
• Quality control: Reviewing deliverables for quality and consistency, against client expectations, industry and agency standards.
• Risk Management: Developing contingency plans and risk assessments to identify and mitigate risks associated with projects and operations.

You responsibly lead on:

• Preparing for and playing a significant role in project kick‑off meetings with all key documents.
• Develop and manage project and production schedules, running shows, supplier information sheets and risk assessments.
• Developing great relationships across a breadth of providers and suppliers.
• Proactively upholding brand, industry and our standards
• Confident communications with clients both verbally and in writing on key project updates and timings.
• Identify and mitigate risks, problem‑solve in real time, and ensure project goals are met.
• Partner closely with producers and creatives to ensure the integrity of the creative idea is upheld throughout production.
• Solid understanding of hours and resources needed for tasks over multiple teams including design, production, account managers etc.
• Work across multiple workstreams and clients simultaneously, with a focus on quality, speed, and efficiency. Ensuring smooth collaboration and workflow between all including briefings, meetings and check ins internally and externally.
• Support post‑project reviews and share learnings to improve future processes and efficiencies across projects.

Candidate Profile

It’s really important to us that you:

• 3‑5 years experience in a project management role (ideally production/campaign lead projects).
• Proven experience delivering creative campaigns and brand activations, from pop‑ups to large‑scale events and integrated campaigns.
• Strong understanding of experiential marketing, brand storytelling, and content and live production processes
• Highly organised, detail‑oriented, and comfortable managing timelines, budgets, and multidisciplinary teams.
• A genuine passion for creativity, culture, and making standout work.
• Experience using financial and project management tools.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and supplier management skills.
• Experience working in a creative and fast‑paced work environment.
• Ability to travel and work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, as required.