Senior Project Lead

Reporting Line: Group Operations & Project Director

ABOUT THE MIDNIGHT CLUB

Work as original as the people who create it.

The Midnight Club is a creative company for cultural advancement.

A 360 studio with 100+ employees across London, Leeds, Amsterdam and New York. We specialise in original, progressive solutions for the world's most ambitious and adventurous brands.

We’re called a Club for a reason.

We build bespoke teams to tackle the specific brand or business challenge at hand. Using best-in-class internal talent, combined with specialist, hand-picked partners. Together we offer one promise - Advancement.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Project Lead at The Midnight Club, you are influential in the successful planning, coordination, and delivery of projects from brief to completion, leading from the front and informing how we produce great work. You lead the internal engine of a project — managing timelines, resources, workflow, and financial tracking — ensuring client needs are crystal clear and teams are set up to deliver their best work. Collaborating closely with your Client Director, who is responsible for driving the onward strategic business unit growth and pipeline, beyond current projects.

While Client Leadership owns the relationship and is responsible for growth, you are a key point of contact for the client, owning parts or whole projects where required, representing the interests of the team and business, to reach the best outcome for client and company.

This role requires someone with leadership skills who is highly organised, solutions-focused, and calm under pressure, who thrives on making complex projects run smoothly while safeguarding quality and commercial performance. A strong understanding of how we successfully take a client brief through to delivery, and how to get the best out of multi-disciplinary teams. You are the backbone of every project.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Take ownership to build out all project scopes, review with Client Leadership & Production to ensure alignment and document on all essential platforms.
• Adjust your level of client-facing involvement versus operational delivery depending on project requirements and the wider CL team involved. Stepping up to guide client conversations or prioritising internal workflows, as needed.
• Responsible for the financial management of TMC fees within a project. Whilst ultimate profitability accountability lies with the CL lead.
• Ensuring all projects have detailed critical paths & drive them internally.
• Leading project teams’ internal workflows/resource bookings to ensure briefings, internal reviews and client responses happen on schedule.
• Lead the execution & delivery of campaign assets, ensuring all planned assets are created and delivered on schedule.
• Making informed autonomous decisions for projects, escalating for further approvals when necessary.
• Help with admin to onboard and source freelancers.
• Manage the tracking of spend on freelancers on your projects.
• Identify and mitigate project risks. Escalate when required.
• Be able to track deliveries weekly.
• Design and implement a new delivery framework, tool or workflow that improves efficiency, reduces risk or strengthens creative output — and roll it out successfully across multiple project teams.

ABOUT YOU

• You're an experienced leader of client and internal teams, with a proven track record of delivering complex, fast-paced creative projects on time and within budget.
• You're highly organised and proactive, able to manage multiple projects, timelines and budgets while keeping teams aligned and projects running smoothly.
• You're a natural problem solver who can anticipate challenges, manage risks and bring structure and clarity to even the most complex projects.
• You're a confident communicator who can build strong relationships with clients and internal teams, balancing creative ambition with commercial and operational needs.
• You have experience working collaboratively across Creative, Strategy, Design, Production and Client Leadership teams, ensuring everyone is working towards the same goal.
• You're commercially minded, with a strong understanding of project finances, scope management, resourcing and freelancer budgets.
• You're comfortable leading client conversations, managing expectations and influencing decisions to achieve the best possible outcome.
• You're passionate about culture, particularly sport, fashion and youth culture, and understand how this influences the creative work we deliver.
• You're always looking for ways to improve how things are done, whether that's introducing smarter processes, new tools or innovative solutions such as AI.
• You're a calm, supportive and collaborative leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, bringing confidence and clarity to the teams around you.
• You're passionate about delivering great creative work and know how to bring people, processes and ideas together to make it happen.

COMPANY BENEFITS

• Xmas office closure in addition to your Holiday entitlement
• Company healthcare for yourself with Health Shield
• Use our Well-Hub app, access to 2,500+ gyms, studios, therapy and meditation
• Assistance programme with 24/7 confidential access as part of your Health Shield plan
• Flexible working scheme - Monday plus two other days of your choice in the office
• Mentoring programme parallel to your Line Management scheme
• Full access to a range of training courses

The Midnight Club is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

The Midnight Club is an accredited Real Living Wage Employer.

The Midnight Club is a certified B Corp, committed to having a positive impact on our people, communities, and the environment.

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