Project & Account Manager

Race Service; Maranello; Ibrido; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Race Service, a dynamic Automotive Culture Hub and Creative Agency, seeks a proactive Account/Project Manager to own client relationships from kick-off to delivery. You will oversee timelines, budgets, and approvals, aligning client needs with production teams across EU/US.

This contractor role requires weekend/holiday availability, travel, and a strategic mindset to build proactive pitches and protect revenue while keeping projects on track.

Competenze

• 3–5 years in project or account management with budgets
• Experience with SOWs, budgets, and production timelines
• Strong communication, precision and warmth

Mansioni

• Own project tracking from kick-off through delivery; main client contact.
• Maintain client relationships; understand business priorities.
• Draft and secure approval on SOWs and budgets.
• Coordinate with EU and US teams; manage timelines and resources.
• Oversee post-production coordination and deliverables.
• Identify risks and flag changes early.
• Build and maintain project schedules with producers.
• Represent Race Service professionally to clients.
• Work outside standard hours; international travel; weekends/holidays.

Conoscenze

Budget management

Timeline management

Client relationship

Google Workspace

Project coordination

Communication

Strumenti

Google Sheets

Google Docs

G-Suite

Descrizione del lavoro

Compensation depending on experience. This is a contractor engagement.

You are the person clients call when they need to know everything is handled because you handled it before they thought to ask. You already know where every deliverable stands, what's at risk, and who needs to hear from you today.

You manage accounts. You manage trust. You manage the project organization. You know the brief, budget, timeline better than anyone in the room and you own the outcomes. You know the budget and you know when a timeline is slipping three days before it actually does, and you've already got a plan to fix it.

You sit between the client's ambition and the team's execution. You translate in both directions. You don't wait for things to come to you. You go get them. Approvals, answers, decisions, alignment. You're wired to pursue clarity. You’re wired to make things move forward. This is a strategic seat, not a status-report seat.

Race Service is a small, agile team that goes from brief to delivery in days. There's no 40-person account team to pass things through. Account management here is not paper-pushing. It's project management, trust-building, relationship-growing, and seeing the next opportunity before the client names it. You bring it to your team before anyone has to ask.

What you’ll be doing

• You will report to the Account Director but you will be often asked to own the client relationship from project management to account management. You will own project tracking from kick-off through final delivery. You are the primary point of contact, the person who keeps clients informed, confident, and coming back.

• Be the strategic read on the client, not just the contact. Understand their business and priorities, and bring that thinking back into the room.

• Draft, route, and secure approval on Statements of Work and project budgets, ensuring what we promise is what we can deliver. Profitably, and on time.

• You must have excellent organizational and project management skills, with strong proficiency in tools such as Google Sheets and other organizational software. The ideal candidate will be highly skilled in managing schedules, developing and tracking project timelines, overseeing budgets, and using planning and budgeting tools to keep projects organized, efficient, and on track.

• Act as the first point of contact on upcoming projects and coordinate responses to client requests and RFPs.

• Responsible for current client revenue retention as well as current client revenue growth

• Work with creative and production teams to build proactive pitches for your clients. See the opportunities before clients ask.

• Take a proactive approach to project management, owning and managing project timelines across all stages of production and post-production to ensure deadlines, deliverables, and key milestones stay on track.

• Build and maintain project schedules in collaboration with producers and department leads. Book crew and resources with appropriate notice.

• Oversee post-production coordination. Track deliverables, revisions, approvals, and timelines to keep projects moving steadily toward completion.

• Coordinate between the EU and US team to ensure every project is on track, with the right resources engaged at the right times.

• Proactively identify and flag risks, delays, or scope changes, internally and with clients, before they become problems.

• Maintain organized, up-to-date project documentation. Briefs, schedules, budgets, status updates, and client correspondence.

• Collaborate closely with creative, production, and operations teams to ensure smooth handoffs, shared context, and executional clarity across every stage of the project lifecycle.

• Represent Race Service with a professional, calm, and solutions-oriented presence in every client interaction. You are our ambassador to them and their advocate to us.

• This role involves working outside standard hours, international travel, and working weekends and holidays.

Who we're looking for

• 3–5 years in project management or account management at a creative agency, production company, with real ownership of budgets and timelines.
• You've worked on SOWs, project budgets, and production timelines. You know how to read them, route them, and hold people accountable to what's in them.
• You communicate with precision and warmth. Clients trust you because you're honest, responsive, and always two steps ahead.
• You understand creative and production workflows well enough to have informed conversations with producers, editors, and creative directors.
• You feel confident managing up to 3-5 clients at once, in various stages of the production.
• Proficient in Google Workspace (G-Suite). Shared drives, Google Sheets and project documentation.
• You know the difference between managing a client and managing a relationship. You do both.
• Experience across international or multi-market client relationships is a strong plus.
• Proficient in making pitch decks and presentations.

Bonus if you also bring

• Agency experience in sales, creative, or production management.
• A genuine curiosity about automotive culture, motorsport, or brand experience. Not as a requirement, but as a reason you'll love the work even more.

Why Race Service?

We are an Automotive Culture Hub and Creative Agency. Our mission: reshape automotive culture. We work at the intersection of content, strategy, experiential, and design for some of the most iconic brands in the world.

But what makes us different isn't the clients. It's our people.

We operate like a sports team. Everyone brings their best. Everyone feels the win and the loss together. The work we make isn't just deliverables. It's cultural moments that carry a piece of who we are. We reward initiative, autonomy, and bold thinking.

We believe the work you choose and the people you choose it with define the life you live.

(Curious what Race Service actually looks like? Check out our YouTube channel.)

Race Service is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.