Integrated Project Manager, 4-month FTC in City of London

Joining our team at Sainsbury's presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative and dynamic environment. As an Integrated Project Manager, you will play a key role in brand-specific teams throughout the entire project lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery, creative feasibility, and adherence to scope and budget. With a focus on driving best-in-class creative delivery, you will have the chance to work with talented cross-functional teams, industry-leading technologies, and diverse stakeholders to bring impactful campaigns to life. We value creativity, collaboration, and personal growth, offering a platform for you to showcase your leadership skills, tackle multifaceted projects, and contribute to exceptional creative work that captivates audiences and delivers business success.

As an Integrated Project Manager within our integrated creative agency Zest, your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring timely delivery, creative feasibility, adherence to scope, and budget compliance for projects.
• Working closely with stakeholders from various departments, including marketing, department heads, and leads.
• Driving best-in-class creative delivery and securing necessary resources for successful project execution.
• Handling multifaceted projects with a high degree of integration across different channels and disciplines.
• Leading and motivating cross-functional project teams, monitoring project budgets, and providing insights to improve everyday work.

As an Integrated Project Manager, you are a highly skilled and experienced professional with a passion for delivering impactful creative projects. You possess excellent project management skills, allowing you to successfully lead cross-functional teams throughout the entire project lifecycle. Your collaborative nature and ability to motivate teams enable you to foster effective communication and collaboration, while your strong negotiation skills and creative solutions-focused mindset ensure the production of high-quality creative work. With your exceptional organisational skills and ability to handle multiple projects seamlessly, you thrive in a fast-paced environment, driving projects forward while maintaining outstanding time management.

Your emotional intelligence, resilience, and creative problem-solving abilities empower you to navigate challenges and make informed decisions to keep projects on track. Ultimately, your passion for delivering best-in-class creative work and your commitment to personal growth contribute to the overall success of our creative operations at Sainsbury's.

Essential criteria:

• Proven track record in leading complex, multi-channel projects within an integrated creative agency.
• Experienced in project management including project scope, timelines, and budget control.
• Experience in financial accountability for a portfolio of work.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working.

When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits, including:

• Colleague discount of 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
• Pensions scheme and life cover.
• Performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on performance.
• Annual holiday allowance, with the option to buy additional holiday.
• Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, and access to discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
• Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.