Project Manager

Job Description

Calling all Project Managers/Producers … if you’ve got a background in delivering complex marketing projects across multiple platforms and you’re searching for a new place to call home, we’ve got a lovely opportunity to work across a portfolio of exciting 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 concept to execution. You’re great at managing multiple projects under pressure, getting the team organised and supporting the senior team. And you’ll be great to have around!

Our Approach

Strategically-led, integrated all-over-it-ness. Brought to life with game changing creative. We put our client services and project management team at the heart of the agency, drawing on specialisms across all channels.

Why would you want to work here?

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.

McCann Demand is an agency of its own, but also very much an extension an extension of McCann Central, the UK’s largest integrated agency with 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.

Requirements

You’ll develop good relationships with the Creative/Design department, 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.

What we want to see (AKA: The bullet points)

• 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
• Proofread meticulously before presenting creative proposals internally or externally

• Monitor all internal and external costs for assigned project

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.

If you want to join an iconic network agency that offers you the chance to work on awesome clients & the opportunity to progress your career with an unrivalled development programme, contact us now.

Our commitment to equal opportunities
For us, diversity is a business imperative – one that must be embedded into every aspect of how we operate in order to drive success. Simply put, we believe an encouraging and inclusive environment makes sound business sense.

As a globally integrated community that influences and shapes culture, it’s vital that the talent mix in our agencies encompass all dimensions of diversity, and that we demand the same of the people we work with.

Conscious inclusion encompasses social, cultural and cognitive differences and cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. It is the integration of this philosophy that allows us to create meaningful experiences for our employees, drive better business practices with our vendors and clients, and ultimately lead with purpose.

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McCann helps brands build the most meaningful brand platforms that drive exponential growth and leave a lasting impact on culture. Founded 100+ years ago with their own platform, “Truth Well Told”, McCann is the world’s leading advertising agency network, creating some of the most creatively and commercially impactful advertising globally. McCann is the founding unit of McCann Worldgroup marketing services company, part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG).