*this is not a role for an advertising PM. Needs to have a Design / retail / experiential background.
As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll be central to the successful delivery of a wide range of creative projects. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams including creatives, strategists, and business development, managing client relationships, budgets, and timelines to ensure seamless execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the main point of contact for clients from initial briefing through post-installation support
- Lead projects from concept through to final delivery, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget
- Prepare comprehensive costing documents including estimates, quotes, and final fee proposals
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously across varying budgets and scopes
- Liaise and negotiate with suppliers, fabricators, and contractors
- Provide regular updates to senior leadership on project status and financials
- Keep internal teams informed of project progress, timelines, and key deliverables
- Collaborate with project leadership to allocate resources and design time effectively
- Advise creative teams on feasible materials, processes, and techniques for project execution
- Source props, products, and materials as needed for each project
- Coordinate site visits and relay insights and logistics to internal stakeholders
- Oversee on-site installations, ensuring quality and adherence to project goals
- Act as a communication bridge between clients, creatives, and external partners
- Educational background in a design-related field
- Demonstrated experience managing creative projects across disciplines and scales
- Client-facing experience with strong account handling skills
- Proven track record of project management within the creative or design industries
- Experience managing production budgets up to £500,000 (or equivalent)
- Exceptional organisational and time-management skills
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities
- Detail-oriented with a passion for delivering high-quality work
- Ability to proactively contribute to the evolution and improvement of studio processes
- Proficiency in Adobe InDesign
- Working knowledge of CAD software is a plus
We are committed to ensuring and supporting representation from all backgrounds across the creative industry, irrespective of race, religion, belief, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or socio-economic background.
With this in mind, we welcome applications from all areas of the community. Please do get in touch and let us know if there is any additional support or reasonable adjustments we can cater for, to ensure our process and roles fit your needs and creates a comfortable & enjoyable recruitment process
If this sounds like the ideal position for you, or if you are interested in exploring other Project Management Jobs in London, or Production jobs in London please get in touch. As a specialist in Project Management and Production Recruitment, I always have a number of Project Manager jobs and Producer jobs across Advertising, Production, inhouse and Media Agencies in London and beyond. You can follow me on Linked https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlenetyler/
Or email charlene@theindustryclub.co.uk
