Senior Marketing Project Lead - 12-Month Contract in Birmingham

Joining ITG on an initial 12 month Fixed Term Contract, you will be pivotal in ensuring all projects run smoothly and efficiently across multi-channel campaigns working with industry leading clients such as Costa Coffee, Puma, Marks & Spencers and many more. You'll have a strong understanding of how campaigns transition through an agency like ours from conception to delivery. This means you are well-versed in the entire lifecycle of campaign development, from initial brainstorming and strategic planning stages, through creative design and content creation, right up to the final execution and performance analysis.

You'll be an empathetic leader who has both a technical and creative eye which will help you manage day to day projects. Your leadership style focuses on understanding the perspectives and needs of your team members, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment. With your keen technical insight, you can navigate complex project requirements and problem-solve efficiently, while your creative acumen ensures that the work delivered is innovative, engaging, and meets the highest standards. Here you'll have the opportunity to work with amazing brands, an incredible team and on some jaw-dropping campaigns.

• Support with estimating and scheduling of all projects, including digital, dev, strategic creative and performance marketing if required.
• Provide SME expertise to the account teams, clients & the wider ops team to support and deliver creative, profitable campaigns and solutions.
• Understand all operational processes, including WOW, use of platforms and reporting.
• Understand each different channel ITG operates within.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external (3rd party suppliers).
• Take proactive and thought leading approach to delivering all projects and campaigns whilst ensuring work is correct, to brief and within estimated budgets.
• Providing a customer centric approach to our account teams and clients.
• Ensure briefs are clear and logical for resource.
• Continue to grow knowledge for all ITG products.

• Estimating and commercials – developing accurate cost estimations and managing commercial proposals to ensure budget alignment and profitable project delivery.
• Planning and scheduling – creating project plans and timelines to coordinate resources efficiently, track progress, and meet critical deadlines throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strategic creative – possessing a deep understanding of strategy development and the interpretation of creative briefs to align messaging and design with client goals and target audiences.
• Creative production including print and basic artworking – managing the end-to-end creative process, from initial concept to final artwork, ensuring quality execution in print production and artwork preparation.
• Copy and TOV (Tone of Voice) requirements – ensuring that all copy aligns with brand guidelines and maintains a consistent and appropriate tone, enhancing overall communication effectiveness.
• Photographic shoots including PPM (Pre-Production Meeting) planning – organising and overseeing photoshoots, coordinating logistics, and managing pre-production activities to ensure seamless execution.
• Conceptual creative – generating innovative ideas and visual concepts that effectively communicate brand messages and engage audiences across multiple platforms.

In this position you'll manage projects spanning multi-channel, including Animation, Digital Signage, Email campaigns, SMS, Packaging/Print, Retouching, Web build and more. So any experience across multi-channel campaigns such as the ones above is a huge benefit!

On top of a competitive salary, you can expect a whole load of perks:

• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays– we understand the importance of you getting some down time.
• Annual Wellbeing Day – enjoy an additional day on us to look after your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Pension Scheme – helping you save towards your retirement home in the sun!
• Corporate Medical Cash Plan – claim back the cost of your medical treatments.
• Smart Working Options – spend up to 40% of your working week from home.
• So many savings– through our online community platform, you can access dozens of daily deals, from money off top brands to discounts on days out.
• Employee Assistance Programme– our people are at the heart of everything we do, so if you’re happy, we’re happy.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – save on the cost of biking to work.
• Monthly Employee Awards - Employee of the Month programme with £250 bonus.
• Raising money for charity including a paid Volunteer Day – we’re all about giving back… and having lots of fun in the process!
• Referral scheme– know the perfect person to join the team? You could bag £1,000 for putting a good word in.
• Wellbeing Programme – giving you the opportunity to join regular, interactive Wellbeing Workshops or join our 30 plus Wellbeing Champions.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave – support for you and your family to help you navigate through the craziness of family life.

We Value Diversity. We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we’re always stronger together. ITG have a number of community groups available to employees and exist to offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other.

If you found yourself interested in knowing more, drop us your application and someone from our team will be in touch.