Creative Project Manager in Birmingham

Job Description

Overview

Creative Design – who are we?

Are you a driven Project Manager looking to join an award-winning in-house creative and digital team? Do you thrive working with clients and diverse project teams to deliver projects that provide real added-value? Do you love analysing and creating strategies for evolving service lines based on client needs? We are a multi-discipline team of over 80 talented individuals, including UX/UI designers, graphic designers, animators, visualisers, motion, real-time and web developers all over the globe. By harnessing outstanding, innovative, and creative talent, we transform the way our clients communicate, connect, and engage with their projects. Our design principles underpin everything we do. We’re problem solvers who are excited by working together to find a solution. We create bespoke communications which focus on bringing meaning to content, make information more accessible and add value to projects. We create and implement viable concepts that utilise technology in a way that enhances outcomes and creates efficiencies. We invest in innovation and focus on upcoming technologies. People join our in-house agency to work on an exhilarating scope of projects, while having a positive impact on the world. We recognise that we work in a fast-paced environment. So there are many ways we care for each other's wellbeing, from championing mental health to promoting flexible working and keeping active together. Our team of Account and Project Managers are responsible for the delivery of multi-discipline projects ranging from working with local communities to create an engaging branded campaign that communicates proposed plans in their area, to a gamified e-learning experience for the Ministry of Defence. You will oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of complex, high-impact creative projects. You will manage cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with global marketing objectives, timelines, and budgets. This role demands a project manager with strong leadership skills, exceptional problem-solving abilities, and a deep understanding of creative workflows in a global context. As we're a National team with offices and resources in multiple locations, you will need to be able to coordinate local and remote teams to deliver the best solution for our clients across multiple disciplines. This role will be based in our Birmingham office.

Your Role

• Managing a multi-discipline project from the initial stages through to final delivery.
• Lead the end-to-end management of global creative campaigns, including strategy, production, and delivery.
• Define project scope, goals, deliverables, and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.
• Facilitate alignment between regional and global teams to ensure consistency and effectiveness.
• Drive the adoption of tools and technologies that improve collaboration and project tracking.
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation plans to address them proactively.
• Monitor and report on project performance using KPIs and dashboards.
• Conduct post-project reviews to identify successes, lessons learned, and areas for improvement.
• Provide data-driven insights to inform future creative strategies.
• Brilliantly analytical, you'll pinpoint the success of campaigns – producing reports and presenting your findings.
• Always looking for improvement, you'll assess processes and make appropriate recommendations based on the data and information you gather.
• You’ll support the co-ordination of our programmes of work, working with our Project Management team to maintain back office systems (Monday.com), enabling effective planning, scheduling and monitoring of the work.
• Ensuring we’re delivering high-quality that adds real added-value.

About you

• Previous Project Management experience at a mid-level, ideally within a global creative agency or in-house team.
• A wide understanding of creative disciplines and collaborating with these teams.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale, multi-market creative campaigns.
• Experience managing cross-cultural and geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience within a creative/digital environment.
• Possess a creative flair and innovative approach to projects.
• Experience of working in a high-demand, high pressure environment.
• Project planning, scheduling, and budgeting.
• Agency experience with strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience with Project Management software and tools – experience of using monday.com would be ideal but not essential.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Worker Type

Job Type

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.