Project Manager – Marketing Agency

Project Manager – Marketing Agency

£36,000 – £45,000 Base Salary

Flexible working

Our client is an industry leading, creative integrated marketing agency, carrying out award-winning campaigns for large, global technology companies.

Their dynamic team of consultants, project managers and creatives comes from a range of backgrounds, but all share a passion for developing and executing exemplary integrated campaigns that delight their clients and drive real results.

Due to continued growth, they are looking to recruit a project manager to join some of our most innovative and demanding accounts. This role is heavily client facing therefore a strong client-facing background within a similar project manager, marketing agency role is crucial.

They’re looking for someone who’s creative, proactive, adaptable, thinks on their feet and doesn’t shy from a challenge.

About the role: Project Manager

The successful applicant will play a pivotal client-facing role across two or three of their largest B2B technology accounts. The role is fast-paced and can be quite intense, with multiple priorities and deadlines to be juggled.

The successful applicant will work closely with the account directors and other PMs, creating and maintaining a clear and detailed overview of everything that’s happening across the account, and helping lead the team to deliver a range of innovative content assets on time, to budget and to an exceptional standard.

Your attitude will be characterised by commitment, energy, attention to detail and dedication to seeking out and developing new ideas, tactics and approaches to continuously enhance your work and delight their clients.

Key responsibilities: Project Manager

The role involves a variety of tasks, including but not limited to:

·Owning overall project planning, management and execution

·Drawing up detailed plans for how to achieve each project stage

·Selecting (with account lead) and driving project team

·Setting out timelines and milestones, and closely monitoring progress against

·Planned timelines, proactively flagging bottlenecks

·Acting as primary liaison between internal colleagues (account team and design

studio) and the client to ensure deadlines are met and momentum is maintained.

·Taking responsibility for financial tracking and planning

·Scoping and pricing new projects/ proposals

·Providing insight and guidance to account team and clients on account finances

·and budgeting

·Tracking budget spend over time and flagging any issues proactively

Experience & qualifications: Project Manager

·Two to three years’ experience in a marketing agency or media account/project management (experience working on clients/accounts in the technology sector strongly preferred)

·Outstanding academic background

·Experience managing creative projects from concept to completion

·Project management qualification (such as PRINCE 2, agile etc) would be a bonus

·Excellent communication skills with strong attention to detail

·Self-Starting

·Highly organised

Lipton Media is a specialist media and tech recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b sales, marketing and creative positions, including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence and technology.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 listed businesses. We work with candidates at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.