Senior Project Manager

Grey London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative agency in Greater London is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a short-term contract with potential for extension. This role involves leading diverse projects across various sectors, managing teams and schedules, and ensuring timely delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong project management and communication skills, with prior experience in a creative agency. Join a dynamic team to influence brands and have a significant impact on culture. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Training opportunities

Wellbeing perks

Qualifications

• Prior experience as a Senior Project Manager in a creative agency or similar environment.
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and organizational skills.
• Experience managing and motivating a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects of varying scale and complexity through the entire project lifecycle.
• Manage multiple teams and project schedules, identifying risks and communicating them.
• Deliver projects under various programmes, from client brief to final output.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Job description

Grey London is on a mission to create the most influential brands of the next decade, through the power of Famously Effective ideas.

Famously Effective ideas extend far beyond the confines of advertising or marketing channels. They stretch our potential influence into wider culture – by breaking norms, smashing stereotypes, saving lives, changing minds, writing history, shifting conversations, and transforming perspectives.

More than just our tagline, Famously Effective is a shared global philosophy that has guided everything Grey has done since our founding more than 100 years ago. Today, more than 150 people work in our London office, with nearly 3,000 more throughout our global network.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our team of change-makers onan initialshort-termcontractof 3months, with the possibility to extend.

In this role, youwill lead projects of varying scale, budget, and discipline. Using yourexpertise, you will scope and plan with internal stakeholders and usher projectsthroughthe entire project lifecycle. This includes managing multiple teams, project schedules,identifyingrisksand clearly communicating them to project stakeholders.We will look to you to helpidentifyfuture opportunities, improveprocessesand drivethe direction of theclient’sneeds.

THE ACCO UNTS At Grey, we have an exciting client portfolio, working with brands across the health & wellness sector , tourism, FMCG , telecomms , energy , sports & active wear, alongside probono projects for charity groups . This variety will keep you challenged and engaged, allowing you to broaden your experience and have an impact on culture.

Within this role, the majority of your remit will be focused on a restricted category brand. Your key challenge will be juggling multiple workstreams for a complex, global, and highly regulated business while ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery of projects.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you’ll be involved in managing a range of projects , with a primary focus on operations and commercials, varying in sizes and complexity. You’ll work closely with clients to drive best ways of working for team s, collaborating across the agency and with teams in WPP to keep everyone on track and working towards the same shared goal .

You’ll have the opportunity to deliver multiple projects under various programmes, taking them through f rom client brief to final output, The projects and workstreams you’ll sit across will involve delivering on campaign toolkits covering TVC, social, digital, shopper, 360 brand experience/strategy development programmes, website content, app design and content creation.

Day-to-day, you’ll focus on:

• Manag ing complex schedules that involve both internal and external teams
• Track ing projects and tasks, communicating schedule and considerations to senior leadership
• Prioritising activities for quick execution of critical path work items.
• Taking responsibility for the projects you own; driving them to delivery, working closely with the external production partner(s)
• Coordinat ing with stakeholders to manage, track and control project issues to ensure timely delivery of products
• Develop ing reports to track planning, scheduling, issues, risks, and overall status
• Oversee ing input to support with the creation of new processes and tools as necessary , t o support additional needs and requirements of a fast-growing business
• Monitoring overall progress, including resolving issues, managing budget, and initiating corrective action as appropriate
• Managing third party vendors contributing to the projects
• Working closely with the Heads of Department and Resourcing teams to monitor overall resource allocations for the projects

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

In this role, as you scope for projects and deliver on workstreams, you will work closely and collaborate with all disciplines and departments within the agency,

To succeed in this role, you will need to:

• Work well and exert influence as a member of a highly integrated team, with prior experience as a Senior PM in a Creative agency (or similar) environment
• Leverage your project management skills: risk management, status reporting, change management, defining budgets & scopes, write estimations and proposals, draft legaldocumentsand SOWs
• Demonstratestrong communication(both written and verbal), interpersonal and organisational skills
• Implement robust analytical skills toidentifyissues and apply effective problem-solving techniques
• Communicatehonestly and openlyand always being open to feedback
• Have experience managing a team, with the natural ability motivate & lead
• Manage up to senior stakeholders and day-to-day peers asa central pointof information
• Adopt strong client-facing and negotiation skills
• Be comfortable and confident working directly with clients

What can you expect from us?

At Grey,you’llhave the opportunity to work at an incredible studio, with some of the most creative and inspired people in the industry, all whilst getting to grow & shape your career with us. We offer a competitive salary, lots of training, plenty of benefits and wellbeingperkstoo.

Inclusion & Belonging

At Grey, we know that the more diverse the input, the more famous and effective the output. Different perspectives spark bigger ideas, bravercreativityand better work - and that starts with how we welcome new talent. We embrace applications frompeople underrepresentedin our industry and value the unique skills,experiencesand viewpoints everyone brings. Our goal is simple:createa place where everyone can belong, and no one feels the need to hide any part of who they are.

That spirit runs through our application process too. Ifthere’sanything - from neurodivergence, toa healthcondition, or any other circumstance - that might shape your experience, just let our People team know.We’llwork with you to make the adjustments you need to show your best, andwe’lltreat whatever you share with respect.

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