Experiential Project Manager - 6 Months FTC

Job Title:
Experiential Project Manager - 6 Months FTC

Job Description:

A BIT ABOUT US

Dentsu Creative is dentsu's sole global creative network that transforms brands and businesses through the power of Horizontal Creativity. 2022's Cannes Lions Agency of the Year, it is made for integration with Dentsu's Media and Merkle networks through Horizontal Creativity. 9,000 creatives across the globe are connected to dentsu's Media and CX experts to deliver ideas that Create Culture, Shape Society, and Invent the Future.

SETTING THE SCENE

Dentsu Creative is a new agency. The product of combining nine best-in-class agencies into one unified full-service creative offering. We are 400 people of diverse nationalities and backgrounds with offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, and London.

Denstu Creative is an agency in transition. We've brought multi-disciplinary experts together, we've sorted the business plumbing ensuring our experts are free to work together without tripping over separate P&Ls, and now we're on a mission to re-introduce the agency to the world through our remarkable strategic and creative product. Our success lives or dies with our people. We are a fearless bunch of passionate problem solvers seeking likeminded, ambitious, empathetic people to join the agency.

ROLE PURPOSE

The purpose of this role is to drive and oversee the delivery of the projects across clients to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Project Leadership

• Supports the project team to deliver the agreed outputs/outcomes within scope, time, cost and quality constraints
• Promotes the wider good in all actions, acting in a morally, legally and socially appropriate manner in dealings with stakeholders and members of the teams and organisation
• Develops and agrees budgets for projects and control forecast and actual costs against them

Project Team Management

• Manages the project team on a day-to-day basis, appropriate to context and project stage
• Clearly defines, agrees and delegates team and key stakeholder roles and responsibilities; develops capability and fosters innovation; empowers and inspires others to deliver successful projects
• Identifies and secures the provision of resources needed for projects from internal and/or external providers, including agreement of contracts (within delegated financial authority limits) for the provision of goods and/or services, monitoring compliance
• Develops, implements and updates resource allocations plans (other than finance) needed for projects, taking account of availabilities and scheduling variances

Project Business Case and Benefits Management

• Prepares, gains approval of, refines and updates business cases that justify projects in terms of benefits, costs and risks; tracking and reporting forecast and actuals against them
• Works with project managers, programme managers and business benefit owners to identify, tracks and delivers benefits set out in business case
• Ensures realisation of benefits for business through planning and designing project outputs meet programme requirements and desired outcomes

Project Plans and Controls

• Designs, consolidates and documents the fundamental components of projects (scope, schedule, approach, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, and quality requirements)
• Establishes, and implements where necessary, protocols to change the scope of projects and update of configuration documents as required

Scheduling and Dependency Management

• Develops, produces and maintains schedules for project activities that takes account of dependencies, resource requirements and constraints in order to enable the efficient realisation of project outputs and associated benefits
• Maps project dependencies and identifies owners, builds dependency management into the project's governance cycle
• Works with programme/project managers and business leads to ensure dependencies are actively managed, acts as an arbiter and enforcer and resolves issues between the various elements of the project

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Minimum 5 Years project management experience, preferably at an experiential/events agency
• Ability to manage and plan timelines & budgets across multiple projects and accounts
• Online project management tool experience an advantage
• Pro-active and extensive timeline management skills
• An established and proactive problem solver ensuring processes are clear and adhered to
• Ability to manage own workload in a high-volume department
• Ability to meet deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail
• Able to work under pressure and manage multiple stakeholders
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Client management experience
• Strong understanding of software and capabilities
• Quality control and proof-reading skills, great attention to detail

WORKING WITH US

Joining Dentsu Creative, you will be part of a creative network, delivering ideas at the intersection of brand, culture, and commerce. In an age when brands are built and grown in altogether new ways, we encourage humility alongside practical flexible problem-solving.

On your journey you will partner with inspiring people across the world and become part of a truly inclusive culture where everyone is given the opportunity to thrive and create the best work of their careers; always learning and always listening to shape ideas, create culture and change behavior. By bringing together the capabilities, experience and relationships of our collective experts, the opportunities for personal growth and development are endless.

SANPO YOSHI

At DCUK, we align our behaviours with our values by grounding everything we do in the Japanese business philosophy of Sanpo Yoshi, or three-way good: Good for buyer, good for seller, good for society. It is a key differentiating philosophy for us, and you'd be instrumental in ensuring it is top of mind throughout the strategic process.

Everything we do is measured/calibrated against this 'triple outcome' definition of success. It applies equally to internal initiatives as it does external client work. From inclusive representation in our clients' communications to the carbon expended in the production process and media purchasing we are constantly looking at ways to maximise effect whilst minimising our environmental impact.

INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

We're proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won't define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That's what we care about. So, whether you're joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for all.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can't promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

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Location:
London

Brand:
Dentsu Creative

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)]]>