Remote Project Manager

Summary

Join our dynamic creative team in Heidelberg and help us manage strategy, creative and production processes for our client - one of the largest FMCG companies in the world!

Requirements

• Experience managing print, digital and integrated campaigns in a creative and production agency
• Proficient in both spoken and written German and English
• 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
• Act as the first line of contact and digital expert for the Client and Account Mangers in the life cycle of a digital project
• Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service

Responsibilities

• 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
• Estimating complex, cross-platform projects
• Schedule projects in line with the correct internal resource and help to source external resource 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
• Provide job reporting to the Team Lead on a regular basis to ensure projects are running correctly, to budget and schedule
• Ensures they understand how to report and manage operational income for their projects in a timely and accurate manner
• Escalates any queries concerning invoicing, or estimates provided by the studio on their projects to the DL and AM