Project Manager in Slough

Project Manager - Food & Drink Marketing Agency Central London.

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SALT is excited to hire a Project Manager.

You will be tasked with managing workflow of strategy and activation projects across our diverse and dynamic portfolio alongside our activation producers, creatives and strategists.

Managing the output and delivery of projects, ensuring timelines and budges are met, and clients have clear communication start to finish.

SALT is the marketing consultancy unlocking the world of food & drink through strategy, activations & talent. It leads the field in quality, innovation, and brand dedication.

We are a people-centred company. We act with trust, authenticity, and care. We think this is the basis for everyone giving their all, loving their job, and unleashing brilliance!

SALT is fast-growing and has a roster of household-name global clients, well known and astonishingly talented chefs and hospitality experts, and ground-breaking projects.

Recent projects include curating and producing the Soho House 4,000+ person annual Food Fest for 2024 at Soho Farmhouse and producing an intimate dinner for Mr.

Porter’s EIPs in London and Los Angeles.

This is an amazing opportunity to join a breakthrough agency and work on some great global brands.

The right job for you?

• You are an experienced Project Manager with a love of the food and drink sector.

Your interests and talent mean you are driven by process, efficiency and going the extra mile for clients.

• You love to be at the centre of projects, creating clear timelines and workflows that will bring the best out of the strategists, creatives, and producers in the team.
• You are organised and a clear communicator with an eye for detail.
• You have created and grown client accounts, as well as improved relationships with new and existing clients.

In either scenario, you see the opportunity.

You're all about the people and have a desire to grow engagement through activations and experiences in a genuine, meaningful way.

• You can communicate results in a way that is meaningful to a client, helping them understand the impact of their investment.
• You live and breathe budgets, decks, project management tools and have a natural understanding of the elements that go into delivering projects.
• You are obsessed with food.

You constantly go to new restaurants and uncover hidden gems.

You’re switched on to the hospitality industry and you understand industry language and social norms.

You love culture – you are aware of what’s going on across our sector and space.

The Role

You will work on client campaigns with a joyful range of services: from small scale money can’t buy experiences to global, game-changing, strategy projects.

Your role will drive SALT’s value in each project.

Working with strategists, creatives and activation producers, you will manage strategy, activations and creative assignments with a compelling and market-leading approach.

As Project Manager, you will be at the centre of working teams responsible for projects from brief to delivery and client follow up.

You will manage creative, strategic and activation resource across various scale projects to ensure they are delivering to brief as well as SALT/client standards.

You will feed into the Senior Project Manager to communicate project specific resource, efficiency, budget performance and flag any concerns or bottlenecks.

Job Specification

• Overall Project Management
• Proactively lead the planning, communication, organisation, leadership and delivery of the projects assigned to you.
• Confidently produce detailed project scopes, monitor and track scope creep and drive status updates.
• Informed and involved in forward planning; inclusive of key moments and predicted asks that will require peaks in service.

This may require upfront scoping and timeline planning to ensure budgets are secured and resources are planned for specific projects.

• Engage and respond to clients in a timely manner, monitor, track and report.
• A strong understanding of finance/budget management, with the ability to report and track across multiple projects.
• Negotiate, manage and maintain excellent professional relationships with existing and new suppliers, whilst bringing best in class suppliers to the table per project as needed.
• Ability to use own initiative, problem solve and think you on your feet.
• Set up post project review meetings and gather feedback for internal and external measurement of KPIs.
• Contributes ideas to improve project output.
• Ensure SALT and Client standards are consistently delivered on each project.
• Contribute to an atmosphere of collaboration, creativity and joy on each project!
• Budget and Resource Management
• Manage estimates and timings for assigned projects including production within the SOW document and create detailed estimates and timings to gain internal approvals.
• Flag internal investment/budget burn as appropriate to avoid overages.
• Share monthly project budgets and status updates with the Senior Project Manager, proactively finding solutions to budget burn and workflow bottlenecks.
• Support of Senior Project Manager in estimates, raising purchase orders and invoice approvals for third party costs for Project Lead approval before released to third party.
• Pre-emptively create timing plans and fee estimates to input on Scoro (Our PM Software), manage and monitor project team updates.
• Drive status updates to inform overall project position for live activations and strategies.
• Prepare production briefs for third party contractors.
• Ensure all specs, assets, signed off copy, signed off design, guidelines any other creative and digital files are available in advance of briefing design, studio or production.
• Support the Senior Project Manager in ensuring all documentation like NDAs and contracts are in place for new projects.
• Plan and manage team resource throughout the project lifecycle.
• Promote and ensure effective teamwork.
• Ensure the right people are involved at each milestone of the project.
• Ensure all work is proof-read before being presented to client.

Requirements

• A minimum of 2+ years Project Management experience.

• Strong appetite for learning and highly motivated!

• Takes ownership of the momentum of a project - not just executing what's asked of you, going above and beyond to achieve the goals.
• A team player: you see your work as part of the team’s overall plan, and within that you’re happy driving your own parts of the project and supporting team members with theirs.
• Experience of brand campaigns, strategy, and activations.
• Excellent communication skills and able to collaborate.
• Excellent attention to detail - you value getting things right.
• Experience working on client account management.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to juggle a wide range of competing demands and delivering to deadlines.

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An ability to think strategically and outside of the box.

11.

Confident public speaker, comfortable communicating with key decision makers and clients.

12.

Demonstrate ability to adopt new working practices, creating solutions to improve systems and procedures.

13.

Intermediate understanding of culinary terms and cooking methods

14.

Experienced and confident in liaising with clients and manage expectations.

• Strong negotiation skills with ability to control and report on costs and budgets.
• A keen eye for aesthetics and story - you know what looks good and how to turn corporate messaging into something engaging.

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• 4 day working week… that’s right!

• Superb career prospects as part of a fast-growing company
• Eating some of the best food on the planet
• 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Team meals and a social environment

First interviews will be via Zoom.

To apply send your CV with a cover letter explaining why SALT excites you to