Project Manager

UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end project delivery in an agency setting, juggling multiple stakeholders and keeping campaigns on track from planning through delivery across Print/Digital/Social/TV/Radio.

  • Agency delivery: own end-to-end planning, timeline management, and cross-channel execution with internal teams and clients.
  • Stakeholder alignment: balance requirements, escalate risks, and keep teams motivated to hit deadlines.
  • Quality and cost control: QA output, proofreading, and monitor internal/external costs to protect scope.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You’ll be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to getting the job done, across on and offline channels, from concept to execution.
  • You’re great at managing multiple projects under pressure, getting the team organised and supporting the senior team.
  • You’ll be joining our London team who are committed to delivering stand out, modern work for blue chip clients across a wide range of disciplines including planning, research, creative, media and digital.

Requirements

  • Experience working in agencies – whether that be creative, advertising or integrated. Busy, deadline driven agency environment experience is essential
  • Established experience of running a variety of global projects and campaigns across multiple channels, including – Print/Digital/Social/TV/Radio from planning through to delivery
  • Have great attention to detail applied throughout the production process
  • Developing project timing plans
  • Experience of successfully managing and balancing the requirements of multiple stakeholders
  • Assess project risk on an ongoing basis, escalating issues as needed
  • Drive projects to completion by keeping the team both on track and highly motivated
  • Project quality assurance – test and review of output, checking outputted deliverables against scope
  • Fulfil all allotted tasks quickly, efficiently and to the highest possible standards
  • Listen carefully to client and creative requests and report them accurately

Benefits

  • In addition to a competitive salary we are committed to creating a brilliant environment for all our people. This includes benefits such as 28 days holiday, plus the opportunity to buy more holiday, enhanced pension contributions, life assurance and much more.
  • A culture of learning and development is also central to our ethos, so you’ll have access to industry leading training and development programmes, plus you’ll get to work closely with the world’s biggest media partners to access exclusive features and products.
  • Most importantly, you’ll be part of a fun and collaborative team and you’ll work in an environment where you are supported and developed.
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We build brands that move people and markets through the radical creativity of Truth Well ToldTM.We don’t make campaigns, we build brands. We don’t follow trends, we uncover enduring human truths. That has been the promise of Truth Well Told since our founding in 1912 – a promise we renew every day as an iconic brand that builds the world’s most iconic brands through finding the truth and telling it well.Truth Well Told unites our 10,000+ people across 100+ countries, as does our commitment to Conscious Inclusion, which upholds the highest standards of bravery, integrity and generosity. Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2025 and 2024, McCann was the most awarded agency at Cannes Lions 2023 and ranked Most Effective Agency Network by the Global Effie Index 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.

Founded in 1902
New York, New York, USA
370 employees (156 in marketing)

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