Responsibilities

• End to End Project Governance & Lifecycle Management
• Develop, maintain, and enforce master project schedules, milestones, and critical paths for complex retail marketing programs.
• Manage project scope, track deliverables, identify key dependencies, and proactively mitigate risks or bottlenecks to keep launches on schedule.
• Own the project margin by tracking out of scope requests, managing budget burn rates, and enforcing commercial governance.
• Establish centralized status dashboards, project documentation, and reporting cadences to keep senior leadership and cross functional teams informed.
• Cross Functional Facilitation & Stakeholder Coordination
• Serve as the primary operational point of contact across internal brand teams, creative agency partners, third party vendors, and corporate account leads.
• Lead recurring project status meetings, align competing priorities, and foster collaborative communication across all contributing groups.
• Balance team bandwidth and resource allocations across parallel initiatives to maintain high output without sacrificing accuracy.
• Monitor team utilisation and capacity, ensuring junior execution tasks are delegated appropriately to protect senior strategic time.

Requirements

• Experience: 6+ years of project management experience within a marketing agency, corporate marketing department, or retail communications environment.
• Portfolio Management: Demonstrated success in managing complex, multi track marketing portfolios and driving cross functional accountability.
• Core Technical Skills:
• Expertise in enterprise project management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Asana, Monday.com, Jira).
• Familiarity with digital asset management (DAM) platforms, automated proofing tools, and print and fulfillment workflows.
• Core Competencies:
• Exceptional organizational, scheduling, and risk mitigation skills.
• Proven ability to manage project budgets, track resource burn, and control vendor costs.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to manage up, down, and across matrixed teams.
• Meticulous attention to detail regarding legal disclaimers, brand standards, and production specifications.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.