Junior Project Manager

Job Description

McCann Birmingham is part of McCann Central, the UK’s largest integrated agency. Over 500 individuals working together to help brands play a meaningful role in people’s lives.

We are also part of McCann Worldgroup, a global agency network that delivers culture-shaping work for some of the world’s biggest brands.

And to add to the (literal) wheelbarrow full of awards we’ve got including Euro Effies most effective global agency, Cannes Network of the Year, Campaign’s European Integrated Agency of the Year, not to mention McCann Central’s haul of awards in recent years at Cannes Lions, Clios, One Show, D&AD, LIAs, Golden Drum & Creative Circle Awards. So, creativity really is at the forefront of everything we do.

We’re a team of passionate creatives, strategists and marketers from a wide mix of backgrounds. But there’s a lot that unites us – like caring deeply about everything we make. And though our skillsets are wide, and our process knowledge is deep, we are all still learning every day.

We are looking for an experienced Junior Project Manager to help manage a variety of integrated projects for one of our global brands. You’ll be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to getting the job done, across on and offline channels, from initial concept to execution. You’re great at managing multiple projects under pressure and ensuring everything is running smoothly.

What You’ll Do:

You’ll develop good relationships with the Creative/Design departments, Artworking Studio and Account Management, be client facing, campaign aware, and embrace collaboration with multiple partners and stakeholders both internally and externally. Challenges and unknowns should be welcomed and relished.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Experience working with a project management team supporting the scoping and planning of integrated campaigns across multiple channels
2. Experience collaborating with internal stakeholders including creative, design, traffic, account handling and other departments
3. Experience estimating projects and management of client approvals
4. Experience working across large budgets

The Day to Day:

1. Support the project team to plan projects, holding regular status meetings with the account teams to keep communication open
2. Produce (and follow) accurate timing plans
3. Contribute to check-ins with the Account Management team to monitor and control the creative and production workflow on your account
4. Work with all other Project Managers within the team to ensure you are aware of all live projects going through and work with the team to plan and prioritise
5. Accurate estimating and management of client approvals
6. Attend weekly financial meetings with the relevant financial controller/account team to review financial status on live projects
7. The go-to person/lynch pin of the project

What we want to see:

1. Have experience of assisting Project Managers to run a variety of projects across multiple channels
2. Have great attention to detail applied throughout the production process
3. Developing project timing plans
4. Experience of successfully managing and balancing the requirements of multiple stakeholders
5. Assess project risk on an ongoing basis, escalating issues as needed
6. Drive projects to completion by keeping the team both on track and highly motivated
7. Project quality assurance – test and review of output, checking outputted deliverables against scope
8. Ability to anticipate and proactively manage projects
9. Fulfill all allotted tasks quickly, efficiently and to the highest possible standards
10. Listen carefully to client and creative requests and report them accurately
11. Proofread meticulously before presenting creative proposals internally or externally
12. Monitor all internal and external costs for assigned projects

Tagged as: Creative, Design, Marketing, Media, PR