Senior Project Manager, London

6 days ago


United Kingdom Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness Full time
Senior Project Manager 101 Wood Lane, London, W12 7FWCompany Description

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness is a full-service creative agency operating in the health and wellness space. Our purpose is to unleash the ‘Wellness Effect’ in every person through meaningful personalised experiences, because we achieve greater outcomes when we are fully engaged in our wellness. We believe when our people do well, our work does well, our clients do well, and our patients do well, inspiring even more wellness in the world. We sum it up in two small words…Do Well.

That’s the what, but the how is guided by these six values – authenticity, courage, trust, creativity, belonging. This is what we believe matters most. The foundations that allow us to always have wellness front of mind.

Job Description

Our Senior Project Managers are the people who draw the map, connect the dots and then manage the journey to the destination. We look to them as delivery experts always knowing where we are and what needs to happen next. They drive our Agency project delivery being one step ahead of the curve at all times.

This is an exciting new role for either an established Senior Project Manager or a newly promoted Project Director to work across a wide variety of end to end projects and tasks, leading your project team through all stages of the project lifecycle making sure we are financially aware, have the right resource in place and are hitting our deadlines.

You will also be seen as the go to person to solve our challenges and make sure everyone is on the same page. The role is pivotal in making the correct commercial decisions for the benefit of the Agency, whilst also enabling our creativity, expertise and craft to shine.

You will be confident enough to bring all team members on that journey, communicating with all levels of stakeholders and helping other team members to do the same. You will have outstanding attention to detail, a logical approach and great communication skills. Financial systems, spreadsheets and timing plans come naturally to you, and you use them to flag and mitigate risks while driving always towards the end goal.

What you will do:

  • Plan and lead the way on how to approach a given programme of work or project from concept through to delivery.
  • Build relationships easily and always communicate with clarity and certainty
  • Lead entire programmes of work and be responsible for ensuring all workstreams run concurrently
  • Create accurate scopes of work, resourcing plans and timelines for projects
  • Track the financial health of your projects and clients through burn reports and reconciliations
  • Manage resource bookings for your projects and work with other departments to secure the correct resource
  • Constantly highlight risks and provide solutions to mitigate them
  • Support and mentor other team members ensuring they work in a consistent and effective manner
Qualifications

Skills:

  • Ability to manage complex, cross function, multi-channel projects influencing quality, budgets and timings
  • Strong commercial acumen and ability to manage, understand and report on financial health of projects
  • Ability to identify gaps in knowledge and skillsets and recommend solutions to close those gaps
  • Comprehensive understanding of resource management, forecasting and capacity planning
  • Exceptional communication skills and be able to influence internal and external stakeholders, consulting and negotiating at the correct moments
  • Able to lead scope, timing and budget development including a way of managing risk on all projects

Experience:

  • Extensive experience in management of the full project lifecycle ranging from client brief through strategy, creative, design, copywriting, asset creation, production, execution and delivery
  • Demonstrated experience operating at SPM/PD level within an advertising/marketing/creative agency
  • Experience in leading large multi-faceted clients and project teams
  • Proven track record of being the lead PM within a team and be able to show effective people leadership and a desire to develop more inexperienced PM’s
  • Skilled in creating production and project strategies for brands or clients
Additional Information

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

  • WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
  • “YOU” DAYS – flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
  • BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
  • FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
  • FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing.
  • GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with employees being office-based on Mondays and two other days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

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