Project Manager

Jungle Creations Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant social media agency as a Project Manager, where your expertise will drive the success of innovative creative projects. In this role, you will oversee the entire project lifecycle, ensuring that all elements align with client objectives while collaborating with diverse internal teams. Your strong project management skills will be crucial in managing budgets, timelines, and resources effectively. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment that values creativity and collaboration, contributing to the growth of a company that thrives on breaking into culture and building communities. If you're ready to make an impact, this role is for you!

Benefits

Free breakfast daily

Dog friendly office

Generous holiday allowance

Eye care

Wellbeing platform access

Generous family friendly policies

Regular social events

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience in a creative or marketing agency.
• Strong understanding of digital and social marketing and branding.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the lifecycle of projects from pitch to execution, ensuring timely delivery.
• Manage budgets, timelines, and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Project Management

Digital Marketing

Creative Coordination

Budget Management

Timeline Management

Problem-Solving

Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Jungle Creations London United Kingdom The Wild

Company Description

About Jungle Creations

We are Jungle Creations, an award-winning social media agency and publisher. Since our creation in 2014, we have built a community of over 147 million followers on and beyond social. In 2019 we launched The Wild, our publisher-powered social agency, that helps brands unlock social through data and insights, so they can build communities and break into culture.

Position

Job Title: Project Manager

Department/Brand: The Wild

Reports to: Operations Director

Duration: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Office Location: London, UK (Hybrid)

Role Purpose

We are looking for an experienced, efficient, calm and effective Project Manager. This role will be responsible for overseeing the lifecycle of all projects, from pitch through to execution. This can be on a project basis or as part of an ongoing retainer. This will include deadlines, milestones, budgets and creative goals with this role reporting into the Operations Director.

You will work closely with many internal departments including the data, strategy, creative, social production, design, account and finance teams as well as external partners to deliver outstanding creative solutions that align with client objectives and our agency's vision.

Requirements

What you will be doing as a Project Manager

• You’ll be project managing some of our biggest creative projects where we need expert and dedicated support. These projects are multi-channel so you’ll have worked in video, social, digital and design.
• You’ll be responsible for creating and managing projects, estimates, and master timelines, continuously tracking progress to ensure everything stays on course and all elements align.
• You’ll oversee status updates, project burn rates, and resource forecasting.
• Proactively identifying potential issues, you’ll address them early on and escalate when necessary.

What you’ll bring to Jungle

• Project Management: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of all creative projects, ensuring timely delivery while managing scope, budget, internal teams and quality.
• Creative Coordination: Work with cross-functional teams, including Designers, Production team, Accounts team to develop and deliver integrated creative campaigns.
• Budget management: Proficient in managing project financials – understanding the fundamentals of resourcing, utilization, managing client budgets and running profitable projects.
• Timeline Management: Develop project timelines, and resource plans, in line with budgets, monitoring progress and making adjustments as necessary to meet objectives.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that all creative work aligns with brand guidelines, project goals, and quality standards, conducting reviews and approvals at each stage of development.
• Resource Allocation: Collaborate with department leads to assign resources to projects effectively, ensuring balanced workloads across teams.
• Problem-Solving: Identify and mitigate project risks, resolving issues quickly and efficiently to keep projects on track.
• Project Analysis: Track project performance, providing updates to internal stakeholders, and leveraging insights for future project improvement.

What we need from you!

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in project management, preferably in a creative or marketing agency environment.
• Skills: Strong understanding of digital and social marketing, branding, design processes, and campaign development.
• Communication: Excellent communication with the ability to articulate complex scenarios in simple language.
• Organisation: Exceptional organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a solution-oriented approach.

Other information

What's in it for you?

• Free breakfast daily
• Dog friendly office
• Generous holiday allowance to include your birthday day off
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing platform; access to our Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders
• Generous family friendly policies
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• Volunteering leave to volunteer for a registered charity.
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to great high street discount vouchers & much more!
• Cycle to work scheme

We want you to add to our culture

At Jungle Creations, we aim to ensure our workforce reflects the diverse society we live in. Our different ideas, our different perspectives and our respect for one another enables us to be innovative, creative and build a sense of belonging that actively encourages our people to add to our culture.

Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form

Jungle Creations wants to meet the aims and commitments set out in its equality policy. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010 and building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce in encouraging equality and diversity. The organisation needs your help and co-operation to enable it to do this but filling in this form is voluntary. The information provided will be kept confidential and will be used for monitoring purposes.