Senior Project Coordinator/Manager
Our client is a fabulous organisation within the print and production industry. They are seeking a creative Project Manager, who will be pivotal member of their team, heading up accounts and projects. The role begins by receiving briefs directly from clients and account directors and you will be responsible for defining requirements, aligning expectations and determining exactly what is required in every detail.
You will work closely with the Design and Artworking studio, Print and Fabrication departments through to logistics and installations. The role is all encompassing, allowing the Creative Project Managers to embrace and direct all elements of a projects lifecycle.
The variety of briefs can include anything from a single graphic to a full nationwide bespoke build roll out with modelling and digital animation to boot - all to be produced to the highest of standards and often within the tightest of timings. You will work with clients ranging from world renowned museums to world leading luxury brands and the project management must be diligent, consistent and second to none.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
· Serve as the vital conduit between company and clients, fostering relationships and engaging in meetings to understand new project briefs and unearth potential opportunities
· Assume responsibility for overseeing key clients and their project portfolio. This may require internal support particularly from your own hub, which entails additional management tasks
· Proactively drive work briefs from clients and develop commercial opportunities
· Bring Visual Merchandising and Creative direction to all project works - both in advisement to clients and direction for internal teams
· Manage expectations of clients, maintaining CPAs and managing workloads to ensure priorities are kept on top of and deadlines are met
· Quoting projects with support from the account directors and maintain budgets during project development
· Interpreting briefs into works orders to be quoted on the internal MIS system - requiring a degree of data entry and administration.
· Coordination of spreadsheets for campaign roll outs, including managing data breakdowns for each team and analysing data for client quoting and alignment as well as appropriate departmental briefing
· Preparing installation briefs for bespoke jobs
· Steer and shape conceptual design and development, extending to the design and production of every possible element within a retail environment. Vigilantly manage budgets and schedules, ensuring that the creative direction aligns with the client brief and brand values, whilst fostering, not inhibiting, creativity
· Lead and participate in creative brainstorming sessions with the creative and technical design teams and external agencies, facilitating the development of major projects throughout the creative process
· Have a commercial awareness is essential. Whether it is keeping an eye on budgets and margins or realizing the potential of a clients business
· Ensure all accounts are kept up to date and invoiced accurately on time
· Developing new business
Essential Characteristics:
Excellent time management and organizational skills. Excellent attention to detail. Individual diligence with a focus on team participation. Level headed approach to demanding circumstances. Good leadership skills. Good written and oral communication skills. Experience in the graphics/creative/print industry. Ability to communicate instructions clearly. Good Excel (V Look ups and Pivot tables) & MS Office skills.
Salary £Negotiable
Kingston Area
40 Hours Per Week, Office Based ONLY