Senior Project Manager

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom George P Johnson Experience Marketing Full time

Job Purpose

As a Senior Project Manager at George P Johnson Experience Marketing, you will be responsible for providing best-in-class industry expertise for the Integrated Production services within our UK office. You will play a pivotal role in translating our clients' objectives and messaging into an engaging story which motivates the target audience to change their behaviours. Having crafted a solution to address the client's business challenge, in collaboration with colleagues in the Strategy & Planning, Creative, Digital and Account Management, you will work with the Integrated Production team to deliver the project on time, on budget and on brief.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Delivery

  • Manage GPJ's largest project/s, often simultaneously
  • Align appropriate resource and lead a team to deliver based on skill, experience for the client
  • Whilst operationally focused, less involved in the day to day delivery of a project, but advising, driving best practices and troubleshooting across the business
  • Accountable for determining the scope for Integrated Production elements with projects,, thinking commercially about use of people's time
  • Responsible for the creation and ongoing management of project timelines and plans to ensure programmes are on track and in line with project plan
  • Development and/or approval of budgets, timelines and management of suppliers, in response to specific client and business needs
  • Overall accountability for the quality of project work delivered across all relevant departments – creative, digital, strategy and production

Talent Management

  • Feed into and supporting the identification and recruitment of the best industry talent
  • Understanding and being able to communicate knowledge of the skill sets and abilities across the Integrated Production department
  • Support the Head of Integrated Production with successfully casting the appropriate resource to the accounts and projects you are responsible for
  • Demonstrate strong leadership attributes, managing large teams across the business, driving change, challenging the status quo, driving best practice
  • Able to clearly communicate performance expectations to line reports and project teams
  • Ability to nurture, grow and develop the team
  • Drive, support and champion Talent initiatives where agreed and necessary

New Business Development

  • Manage all Integrated Production elements of the pitch process
  • Responsible for providing engaging and inspiring responses to RFPs on time, on budget
  • Provide a detailed budget for relevant areas of a pitch brief
  • Attend and present pitch presentations when required
  • Actively promotes GPJ through best practice

Creative

  • Demonstrate the ability to translate client requirements into a creative brief, across complex project activations
  • Work in close partnership with the Creative Directors, collaborating in the early stages of a brief to help shape ideas
  • Collaborate across teams for flawless concept development
  • Demonstrate understanding of the agency's creative processes, and ensure these are clearly communicated to project teams

Client Relationships

  • Responsible for the successful management and retention of key client projects
  • Partner with the Head of Integrated Production to provide transparency on what is achievable in the delivery of projects and manage client expectations accordingly
  • Be responsible for understanding a client's objectives, ensuring that project outputs meet these objectives and deliver great results
  • Write and present a clear vision of success in order to gain the confidence of a client audience

Finance

  • If assigned as Project and/or Pitch Lead you will be accountable for profitability of overall project, and protecting the commercial health of projects
  • Responsible for ongoing management of project forecasting
  • Work closely with the Head of Integrated Production to ensure the utilisation percentage and productivity of your role on client projects is in line with annual GPJ UK requirements/expectations
  • Identify and deliver commercial opportunities within your area of the business through additional revenue opportunities or cost savings
  • Lead complex budget reconciliations for specific projects as/when needed

About you

  • You are curious to constantly question, innovate, be open to and identify new ways of working
  • You provide healthy challenge to clients and colleagues in order to get to a more successful result/outcome
  • You are always willing to help other people within the project, across departments
  • You're curious and eager to learn about the industry, clients' business and tech solutions
  • You are persistence to follow up with stakeholders and clients but demonstrate empathy in understanding the agency and Executive Producers workload
  • You are truly passionate about planning and delivering a best-in-class event
  • You have the ability to adapt your working style and practices quickly to respond to different projects in terms of scale, content, complexity
  • You communicate with clarity, conviction and persuasiveness tailored to different situations
  • You demonstrate 'active' listening skills in a variety of situations, seeking out others' ideas, are open to them and are able to take action where appropriate
  • You are able to build effective relationships, able to understand and respond to the agenda of others and are able to help unlock future client opportunities
  • You think creatively to deliver ideas/ solutions & solve problems; are able to demonstrate the ability to enhance the client's or team's outcomes or business impact through actions & contributions
  • You understand the vision & strategy of GPJ to spot opportunities to support sustainable commercial growth
  • You are a collaborative, consultative team player with enthusiasm, passion and drive and inspire your team to learn, grow and be curious

Your Background, Skills & Experience

  • 10+ years' experience at project lead level
  • Experience of leading large project teams across multiple disciplines
  • Extensive experience in all elements of live event production
  • Significant experience of managing large, complex projects
  • Experience of managing and reconciling large, complex budgets
  • Previous line management experience
  • Experience of responding and delivering to clients with digital, social media or tech solutions
  • Strong understanding of financial software

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