Job Description
Our Project Directors are our delivery experts. They show the way, ensuring Project Management excellence is at the core of what we do. They are delivery focussed but with the ability to see the bigger picture, being experts who help drive projects and teams forward. There are also operational aspects to the role ensuring we have the workload covered and are managing things in the right way.
As a Project Director you will be comfortable being the expert in the room from a delivery perspective. You will work across a wide variety of clients, programmes, projects and tasks, leading multi skilled teams through all stages of the project lifecycle. You will ensure we are financially aware, have the right resource in place and are hitting our deadlines. The role also manages other team members, their workloads, supporting and mentoring them and always promotes delivery excellence. The role is responsible for making the correct commercial decisions for the benefit of the Agency, whilst also enabling our creativity, expertise and craft to shine.
What you will do:
1. Plan and lead the way on how to approach a given programme of work or project
2. Build relationships easily and always communicate with clarity and certainty
3. Lead entire programmes of work and be responsible for ensuring all workstreams run concurrently
4. Create accurate scopes of work, resourcing plans and timelines for projects
5. Track the financial health of your projects and clients through burn reports and reconciliations
6. Manage resource bookings for your projects and work with other departments to secure the correct resource
7. Constantly highlight risks and provide solutions to mitigate them
8. 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:
* Proven background in project management within an agency setting
* 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
* Skill in creating production and project strategies for brands or clients
* Extensive experience in management of the full project lifecycle ranging from client brief through strategy, creative, design, copywriting, asset creation, production, execution and delivery
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