Job description
- Take a prominent seat in the engine room of the agency driving the business forward with operational best practice and creative excellence.
- Control the delivery of all billable and internal projects within your remit, fostering a productive, expressive and commercially minded culture through your project teams. • Lead all project team meetings with agendas, priorities and detailed notes.
- Manage and communicate RASCIs, project timing plans, milestones, accountabilities and dependencies. • Implement discipline and rigour regarding document management, filing, versioning and naming conventions within projects you own.
- In partnership with department leads, use in-house systems to forecast agency resource requirements and project fee estimates.
- In partnership with other project managers, control a central resourcing platform to provide accurate forecasting and utilisation figures.
- Support our finance department with regular, standardised updates relating to your projects' commercial performance.
- Report regularly to line manager (Operations Director) and wider project team, tailoring the appropriate level of information to ensure effective prioritisation of issues and resolutions.
- Be a subject matter expert on our agency workflow process and ensure adoption of this within projects you own.
- Develop and promote the Operations department and project management discipline internally across all business verticals.
- Lead with diligence, smart thinking, clear communication and instinct.
- Contribute to the agency culture with enthusiasm.
- Build knowledge of the agency's offerings, mission and vision.
- Advocate and embody 'Total Brand Experience' (Momentum's internal agency process) across all workstreams.
- Working with your line manager, identify and undertake relevant courses and training specific to your personal and professional development.
- Use of agency systems to convey all necessary information.
- Establish effective relationships across all agency functions.
- Learn global agency structure and functions, and uses resources appropriately and efficiently.
- Ensure compliance with agency and client policies across projects.
- Adhere to agency processes and timelines on Talent processes – appraisals, career planning, promotion & pay review cycles.
- Collaborate with Business leads to define and articulate briefing instructions from clients.
- Lead meetings / present where needed when relating to project deliverables / plans.
- Contribute to pitch meetings where necessary.
- Operational Accountability - driving commercial and creative excellence by maximising efficiencies across the organisation.
- Scoping & Forecasting – managing the end to end scoping and resourcing process in line with 'Total Brand Experience'.
- Resource Planning – collaborating with our resourcing function & other billable disciplines to ensure optimum utilisation and appropriate casting.
- Timings – owner of Project Plans, milestones and accountabilities.
- Risk Management – work with internal project stakeholders to define risks to the project, and the steps needed to be put in place to mitigate it.
- Budget Management – ultimately responsible for managing the commercials of the project, own master budget documents (whilst ensuring that updates are fed in by relevant teams)
- Internal Project Communications – own kick-offs, lead internal status meetings, run team stands ups, proactive and timely communication.
- Ability to lead multi-discipline teams with confidence and credibility , agency-wide, on multiple simultaneous projects.
- Project management experience, ideally in a creative or event production agency.
- A solid understanding of Experiential / Brand Activations and the marketing mix.
- Polished and professional manner.
- Proven track record in building influential relationships through effective Project Leadership.
- Strong commercial management background – strong level of Excel competence. • Able to work effectively with new systems and tools and agency management systems.
- Collaborative approach to partnering with Business Leadership, Strategy, Creative, & Brand Experience.
- Ability to juggle a number of projects and tasks simultaneously and consistently deliver high quality work to tight deadlines and when under pressure.
- Strong organisational and time management skills, with excellent attention to detail.
- Good aptitude with all MS office software –Word, O365, Powerpoint etc.
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