OLIVER+ is a global team of creative thinkers, tech-savvy trendsetters, and production pros specialising in film, CGI, automation, AI, motion design, and digital/print content. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our focus is to connect clients with high-quality solutions, talent, and ambitious opportunities worldwide.
As a part of The Brandtech Group , we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Mid Project Manager
Job Level: Mid (minimum 4 years’ experience)
Location: Remote working until further notice
Type of contract: 6 months FTC
Language: Proficiency in English is required as we are a global business
A Little Bit About the Role:
- This is a remote role and you will be working closely with the team in the UK. A great opportunity to work within an international team, creating impactful communications across many channels and developing best practices in brand communication. This role will be underpinned by passion and ambition, and those with experience in leading digital content, social campaigns, and print within a creative agency will have an advantage.
- The Project Manager is responsible for running creative and production processes and working alongside our existing talented Project Managers to drive a project from brief to delivery. The role is very client-facing. The PM will be the main point of contact for their clients next to the Lead Account Manager. The candidate needs to have a good understanding of digital disciplines and is confident working in agency teams in a remote environment. You create timing plans within our system, assume responsibility for the review and approval process of creative output, and ensure the projects you own run on time and on budget.
- You will need to be great with creative teams, hard-working, and passionate about creative and producing the best product you can. Process is key, and someone who really respects and understands that, although creative needs freedom, it also needs to follow a framework and process to allow it to thrive.
- What we want to see is a proven track record of producing multiple complex projects. You should have meticulous attention to detail, understand the importance of the profitability of your projects for the agency, and you will have proven yourself as a safe pair of hands on the day-to-day running of multiple prestigious projects.
- Most importantly, this role requires a courteous, positive, and high-energy individual with great people skills. We value hard work, and we want to have fun doing it.
- What You'll be Doing:
Project Set Up
- Taking overall ownership of integrated creative projects from brief to fulfillment.
- Being the key point of contact for brand teams.
- Working closely with strategy and creative teams in preparing advertising strategy and milestones for the client.
- Liaising with clients to determine campaign scope and produce estimates and schedules.
- Identifying, exploiting, and managing ad hoc opportunities when they arise.
Project Delivery
- Schedule projects in line with the correct internal resource and help to source external resources where necessary.
- Ensure projects follow the agency process and are completed on time and on budget.
- Work closely with Digital Producers to unify skills needed to execute integrated campaigns.
- Motivate and manage teams under tight deadlines.
- Educate and manage internal stakeholders in relevant production processes where necessary.
- Drive efficiency and creative excellence at all times.
Reporting
- Provide job reporting to the Project Manager & Account Lead on a regular basis to ensure projects are running correctly, to budget and schedule.
- Ensure they understand how to report and manage operational income for their projects in a timely and accurate manner.
- Escalate any queries concerning invoicing, or estimates provided by the studio on their projects to the Project Manager Lead.
- What You'll Need:
- Experience managing digital and integrated campaigns in a creative and production agency.
- Be unafraid to ask questions and have an innate ability to identify and manage project risk.
- Strong track record in executing campaigns across multiple platforms.
- Previous experience of Project Budget Management and Scheduling.
- Previous experience of Resource and Production services sourcing.
- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.
- Have a positive, can-do outlook, willing to leverage past experience to provide the best solution for each project you own.
- Be willing to share your experience where relevant and when it adds to the offering to the client.
- Be financially conscientious when managing the delivery of a project ensuring all relevant parties are aware of financial implications of delays, additional amends, and re-briefs.
- Be able to verify the qualitative and quantitative output of a project against the project objectives.
- Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top-tier agency service.
We are looking for people who want to work closer with clients and brands, who are entrepreneurial and relish the opportunity to be a part of something new and dynamic.
- Personal attributes:
- Confident and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing client environment.
- A passionate and inspiring creative.
- The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively.
- Self-motivated and organized.
- Collaborative team player.
- Proactive, helpful and enthusiastic.
You'll Have:
- Creative and conceptual thinker.
- Confident and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing client environment.
- The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively.
- Self-motivated and organized.
- Collaborative team player.
- Proactive, helpful and enthusiastic.
- Good to have:
- History of work in social media.
- Experience in FMCG.
- Experience in Automation a plus.
- Understanding CGI and building Pack shots.
Our values shape everything we do:
Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Be always learning and listening to understand.
Be Results-focused to exceed expectations.
Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients, and creations.
OLIVER+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
OLIVER+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.
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