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

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our team in east London. Working closely with the studio team and our clients, you will manage the day-to-day delivery of multiple projects, keeping schedules, budgets and communication on track.

This is a full-time position (37.5 hours, 5 days per week) based in person at our studio. You should have at least 4 years' experience managing projects within a design, branding or creative studio, and enjoy working collaboratively.

ABOUT US

A Practice for Everyday Life is a creative direction, design and type studio founded in 2003. Collaborating with cultural institutions, global brands and individuals, we create meaningful, original design through research and consultancy. We work across brand identities, campaigns, digital, editorial design and custom type.

WORKING AT APFEL

• Flexible daily working hours around our core working hours.
• An off-site cultural outing bi-monthly - visiting a gallery, house or paid exhibition together.
• Regular studio socials, including opportunities to attend private openings and events at galleries and museums.
• Catered team lunches once a month.
• Increased holiday allowance after 3 years at APFEL.
• Studio closure between Christmas and New Year.
• Workplace pension scheme.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• 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.

YOUR EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At least 4 years' experience managing projects within a design, branding or creative studio, or equivalent.
• Experience managing multiple creative projects at the same time, balancing schedules, resourcing and feedback.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence managing clients and building strong relationships.
• Highly organised and proactive, with strong time-management skills and the ability to manage changing priorities across projects.
• Able to anticipate risks and resourcing issues, solve day-to-day problems independently and recognise when issues should be escalated.
• Collaborative and sensitive to the way creative teams work
• Confident using Excel and/or Google Sheets, project-management tools and time-management systems.
• Good understanding of creative production processes across print, digital and web.
• A strong interest in contemporary design, typography, art and culture.

Please see full job description: https://apracticeforeverydaylife.com/project-manager