Mid/Senior Project Manager (Creative)

DEPT®; Budapest (MO); Hybride; USD 43 000 - 68 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Private health insurance

Hybrid working policy

Dog-friendly office

Wellbeing benefits

Professional development

Résumé du poste

DEPT® Budapest seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee client accounts and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of high-quality work. You will lead cross-functional teams, shaping how PM operates within the agency and mentoring junior PMs.

Drive efficient processes from day one and balance client priorities with internal delivery needs. You will champion Always-On/Organic Social workflows, manage budgets and risks, and collaborate with Client Services, Creative, Design, and Production to ensure

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Always-On/Organic Social workflows (planning, briefing, approvals, community mgmt).
• Extensive project management experience in an agency environment (creative, media, or production-led).
• Ability to shape and improve ways of working, balancing strategic oversight with hands-on leadership.
• Proven track record managing complex multi-discipline projects from planning to delivery.
• Strong financial acumen with experience in scopes, budgets and forecasts.
• Proactive communicator, adept at stakeholder management and risk mitigation.
• Proficient with project management and workflow tools (including Google Suite).

Responsabilités

• Lead project management across assigned accounts, ensuring smooth delivery and clear priorities.
• Provide strategic input into account ways of working, resource prioritisation, and overrun management.
• Understand and optimise Always-On/Organic Social workflows from planning to community management.
• Build relationships with Client Services, Creative, Design and Production for smooth handovers.
• Proactively unblock work and keep delivery moving, avoiding escalations.
• Collaborate with Business Directors to resolve blockers and ensure client satisfaction.
• Create and manage project plans, scopes of work, timelines, and trackers.
• Monitor pacing, resources and risks; escalate issues promptly.
• Mentor and guide Project Managers to grow the PM function.
• Champion best practices in project management and standardised workflows.
• Identify friction points and drive changes to improve efficiency.

Connaissances

Always-On workflows

Agency PM experience

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Google Suite

Outils

Google Suite

PM tools

Description du poste

Budapest

Note: Please submit your application in English.

JOB PURPOSE

As a Senior Project Manager at DEPT®, you’ll oversee key client accounts from a project management perspective, ensuring work is delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality.

You’ll act as the senior point of contact for project coordination, championing ways of working across teams, and shaping how project management operates as a function within the agency.

Alongside our Client Services team, you’ll join key client-facing touchpoints to help balance external expectations with internal delivery needs. You’ll balance client priorities with internal delivery needs, while providing leadership, oversight, and guidance to PMs in the team.

We’re looking for someone who is proactive and confident in shaping ways of working, someone who can take full ownership of how the account runs day‑to‑day and drive improvements and efficiencies from day one.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead project management across assigned accounts, ensuring smooth delivery, clear priorities, and alignment between client goals and internal workflows.
• Provide strategic input into account ways of working, resource prioritisation, and overrun management.
• Bring strong understanding of always‑on / organic social content workflows, from planning and intake to approvals and community mgmt, and be able to optimise how the team works across campaign activity.
• Build strong relationships with Client Services, Creative, Design, and Production to ensure smooth handovers and collaboration.
• Proactive in bringing the right people together to unblock work, align decisions, and keep delivery moving - rather than waiting for escalation.
• Partner tightly with Business Directors to spot and resolve project blockers, ensuring delivery success and client satisfaction.
• Create and manage project plans, scopes of work, timelines, and internal and client facing tracker and documentation.
• Monitor account‑level pacing, resources, and risks, ensuring issues are escalated and resolved quickly.
• Mentor and guide Project Managers, contributing to the growth of the PM function.
• Champion best practice in project management, ensuring tools, documentation, and workflows are consistent and efficient.
• Continuously identify operational and WoW friction points and lead changes to improve efficiency, clarity and team workflow.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Proven experience and a strong understanding of Always‑On / Organic Social delivery workflows (planning, briefing, approvals, community mgmt). Ideally with working models ready to try and adapt.
• Extensive experience in a project management role within an agency environment, ideally in creative, media, or production‑led accounts.
• Experience shaping and improving ways of working across teams, with the confidence to recommend and implement operational changes. Ability to balance strategic oversight with a hands‑on approach.
• Proven track record of managing complex multi‑discipline projects from planning to delivery.
• Strong financial acumen and experience managing scopes, budgets, and forecasts.
• A naturally proactive communicator who anticipates needs, surfaces risks early and drives clarity across teams. Ability and experience in stakeholder management.
• Proficient with project management and workflow tools (including Google Suite), with the ability to quickly learn, adapt to, and confidently use new systems as they evolve.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment with competing priorities.

WE OFFER

• Private health insurance and access to a range of healthcare and preventive services.
• Sports & cultural benefits to support your wellbeing and work‑life balance.
• Dog‑friendly office
• Hybrid working policy
• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021.
• Awesome clients. Whether big, small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with all of them. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

WHO ARE WE?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.