Job Description

Creative Project Manager
Salary: £260 per day / £32.50 per hour
Location: Hybrid working, and offices based in Canary Wharf, London
Hours: Monday-Friday - 9am-5pm (40 hours)

My client is a well-established, global financial services organisation based in Canary Wharf, and they are looking for a Creative Project Manager to join them on a full time, contract until December 2022. The successful applicant will be working as part of their Creative Project Management Team which sits within the Content Studio function of Corporate Affairs & Marketing.

This will be hybrid work, but you will be required to go into the office at least twice a month and eventually this may increase to a couple of days a week, so you must be comfortable travelling into the office.


Responsibilities of Creative Project Manager:

• Manage production and delivery of creative content and marketing collateral requests
• Work with the in-house creative team and agency partners, and monitor projects through the different stages of the creative process including, briefing, planning, concept, design, production and delivery
• Deliver programme, campaign, multi-tactic and channel specific content projects for the Corporate Affairs & Marketing organisation
• Employ exceptional project management skills to ensure marketing materials meet stakeholder objectives and are delivered on time, on brief, on budget and on brand
• Facilitate all projects having clearly defined briefs, objectives, messages and success metrics (KPIs)
• Ensure all content requests are accurately opened, briefed, categorised and captured in their project management workflow system (Workfront)
• Act as the connection point between stakeholders and their internal design team to ensure effective resource scheduling, communication and clarity in the design and delivery of content
• Record and process third party content production costs in Workfront, in coordination with the operations team to ensure suppliers are paid on time

What we are looking for:

• 3 years+ in a similar or related role
• Industry experience in financial markets
• Proven experience in delivering excellence in project coordination through the ability to interpret and manage multiple projects, while meeting challenging deadlines
• Sound understanding of the creative/design process and tools
• Experience of working with project management tools (Workfront or similar)
• Effective and confident communicator, across different levels
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, written & oral expression
• Confident problem solver and decision maker
• Able to manage and prioritise multiple projects and stakeholder expectations, while making fast, effective decisions to meet tight deadlines
• Experience working within a fast paced, complex businesses is ideal

We are working very quickly to fill this post and arrange an immediate start date. If you are interested in applying, please click apply now!

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