Senior Project Manager (Client Facing)

Senior (Client Facing) Project Manager – Brand Design

Bishopsgate London: Hybrid working

FutureBrand:

We’re FutureBrand, the flagship branding agency within the multi-award-winning global advertising agency network McCann Worldgroup.

24 years young with a head full of big brand experience and a gaze fixed firmly on the future, our work over the last two decades has changed the brand landscape today. What we do next will change tomorrow. We’re based in some of the most exciting and vibrant cities on the planet, balancing global scale with cultural connection. That means we’re on the doorstep of many of the world’s biggest brands, and within reach of the very best talent around.

Together, we are a diverse brand, experience and design community who believe that brand is how a company’s people, products and services behave wherever and whenever they show up in the world. Our work focuses on measuring and maximizing brand behaviour by connecting corporate purpose with everyday lived experience.

It\’s through this work that we deliver our purpose: To transform the future of businesses by changing how their brands behave today. And because we believe strongly that the future our brands create must be a future for us all, our shared values – Progressive, Adaptable, Collaborative and Empowering – put difference and diversity at our core.

We\’re now looking for an experienced Senior Project (or Account Manager who enjoys delivery as much as client relationships) to join the team!

The role:

As a Senior Project Manager at FutureBrand you’ll be responsible for managing major branding projects on behalf of a range of instantly recognisable global clients.

Specifically you will have the opportunity to:

1. Manage and coordinate the day-to-day running of multiple projects for major global brands taking ownership and working directly with client stakeholders from brief to delivery.
2. Collaborate with clients and agency stakeholders to review their objectives and project requirements and interpret into project plans and creative briefs.
3. Plan, cost and manage stand-alone projects in coordination with external suppliers.
4. Control project time plans and budgets, while coordinating and motivating the team with a positive solutions-based attitude to meet deadlines.
5. Adhere to strict processes and maintain project timetables, addressing or escalating risks.
6. Provide project management assistance to the Project and Business Directors including: Client status reporting, weekly and ad-hoc resourcing, Imagery and typeface licensing and tracking.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

1. Essential: Previous project and/or account management experience leading branding projects within a creative brand design agency.
2. Demonstrates advanced Project and Client Management skills including numeracy, financial acumen, active listening, assertiveness, articulacy, and organisation.
3. Knowledge and experience of design creative and production process.
4. Experience working with internal corporate clients in the B2B space.

FutureBrand and McCann Worldgroup are an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We embrace diversity in all its form. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. If you have a disability, please let us know what adjustments you may need to the recruitment process to perform your best.

For more information on the Project Manager role, click apply below!

FutureBrand is a brand-led business transformation company. We believe that brand is behaviour. For too long, brand has been thought of as intangible when in fact, it is a highly pragmatic business tool that ensures products, services, environments, and employees show up in the world in ways that are consistent with their organisation’s purpose and ambition. We exist to make brand tangible for our clients by connecting brand to experience and design creativity that in turn connects to marketing and business outcomes. This ensures that our work stands out and endures over time.

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