Junior Project Manager

Your role

• Reporting to a Principal Project Manager, you'll plan and budget exciting projects from start through to delivery.
• Being passionate about digital innovation, you'll love every part of the creative process.
• Supported by the seniors in the team, you'll interact with clients and stakeholders and will build strong and long-lasting relationships through your excellent communication skills.
• You'll thrive in teams, working with PMs, AM's'and discipline leads to redefine approaches, costs and timelines.
• Brilliantly analytical, you'll pinpoint the success of campaigns – producing reports and presenting your findings.
• Always looking for improvement, you'll assess processes and make appropriate recommendations based on the data and information you gather.
• You'll support the co-ordination of our programmes of work, working with our Project Management team to maintain back-office systems (Monday.com), enabling effective planning, scheduling and monitoring of the work.
• You will be responsible for working with our Resourcing Manager to manager through day-to-day design requests, with the opportunity to take on multi-discipline projects as your role develops.
• As we're a national team with offices and resources in multiple locations, you will need to be able to coordinate local and remote teams to deliver the best solution for our clients across multiple disciplines (e.g. branding, events, print, digital, web).

Responsibilities will include

• Project Coordination
  • Assist in planning project timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
  • Monitor progress to ensure projects stay on track and meet deadlines.
  • Update project schedules and status reports regularly.
• Team Collaboration
  • Act as a liaison between the creative team, clients, and other stakeholders.
  • Facilitate communication to ensure everyone understands their roles and responsibilities.
  • Organise and participate in meetings to gather feedback and clarify objectives.

• Resource Management
  • Coordinate the allocation of resources, such as designers, copywriters, or external vendors.
  • Track team capacity and flag potential over- or under-utilisation.
• Client Interaction
  • Document client feedback and ensure it is communicated to the team.
  • Documentation and Reporting.
  • Maintain project documentation, including briefs, proposals, and contracts.
  • Generate reports on project status, budgets, and risks for internal review.

• Problem Solving
  • Identify potential risks or bottlenecks and propose solutions to mitigate them.
  • Escalate major issues to senior project managers or leadership when necessary.
• Administrative Support
  • Handle scheduling, fee tracking, and procurement tasks related to projects.
  • Ensure adherence to the agency's standard processes and best practices.