Project Director

Ready for your next challenge? A fantastic opportunity awaits a motivated and enthusiastic Project Director.

As a Project Director you will provide outstanding levels of client servicing to both new and established clients. You will get to work across delivering a variety of B2B and B2C experiential projects as well as other communications initiatives, campaigns, digital interactives and design projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Client Relationship / Account Management:
  • Lead the day-to-day management and delivery of key client accounts at Imagination
  • Lead meetings and provide clear updates to all parties on project / programme updates
  • Provide outstanding client servicing, ensuring timely communications to build trusted partnerships with clients
• Project Management:
  • Write highly effective and compelling project briefs and brief internal teams
  • Running larger more complex projects
  • Lead responsibility for project delivery, managing a multi-discipline team (including strategy, creative, production and digital specialists) as well as management of third party suppliers
  • Responsible for the management of the account and client contact
  • Oversee efficient resource planning across the team
  • Demonstrate understanding of services and be able to sell these effectively
  • Demonstrate successful onsite management and delivery ensuring projects reflect briefs and meet objectives
  • Manage creative development process and demonstrate ability to assess proposals against creative brief and objectives
  • Present budgets, documents and creative concepts to clients with confidence and finesse
  • Lead pitches working collaboratively with other disciplines and partners to create brave and inspiring agency proposals underpinned by a rigorous delivery plan, budget and schedule
  • Drive new business initiatives, seek out new projects, clients and opportunities
  • Maintain a close management of all aspects of your projects and elevate issues as needed
  • Liaise with our in-house legal team and the client as needed
  • Work with internal HSSE Lead to ensure that all aspects of the production of the core events meet HSSE standards and guidelines
  • Ensure that all projects over £50K fees are issued with an Imagination Client Survey
  • Should be able to travel internationally a number of times a year for extended periods of time
• Financial / Commercial Management:
  • Demonstrate financial responsibility through effective proposal costing, budget development and timely reconciliation
  • Assess/measure and communicate the value and ROI of services
  • Spot opportunities to develop revenue-generating ideas
• Market Knowledge:
  • Understanding clients, competitors, market, suppliers and strategy
• Leadership & Mentoring:
  • Delegate to, manage and oversee team
  • Mentor and develop junior team members
  • Work with Creative Director & Strategy Director to lead creative brainstorming

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Significant experience delivering projects globally within events, exhibitions or brand experience within an agency environment
• Good interpersonal, presentation, relationship building and negotiation skills
• Thorough understanding of budgets
• Experienced in leading / directing a team
• Capable of devising and implementing revenue-generating ideas
• Ability to approach opportunities from a commercial, creative and multidisciplinary perspective
• Strategic thinker with the ability to generate and implement ideas
• Strong understanding of multi channel communications
• Strong sector brand experience

What we can offer you:

• Work with a state-of-the-art product and deliver it to exciting and innovative brands.
• Learning and development opportunities that contribute to professional growth.
• Private Medical Insurance (including discounted gym options)
• Discounted Healthcare Cash Plan
• Help at hand EAP
• In-Office Gym (London office only)
• Life Insurance 4 x salary
• Dedicated DE&I Board
• 25 days annual leave
• Birthday day off and gift
• Discretionary Annual Bonus
• Generous Family Leave policies with New Parent Coaching & Support
• Various learning & development platforms for e-learning
• Enhanced pension contribution
• Income Protection (Employee)
• Subsidised Electric Car Scheme
• Home technology tax free loan
• Hybrid Working (3 office days)
• Company socials
• Pet friendly office
• Lunch & Learns
• Wellness webinars
• Educational webinars
• Subsidised Cafe (London office only)

WHAT MAKES US, US

We spark the imagination

Changing the way people think, feel and act

We design experiences that create memories, change behaviours and shape cultures

We specialise in consultancy, brand destinations, live events, content and investor communications

Imagination believes that diversity, equity and inclusion are more than just words, and more than a legal framework or a moral obligation - they are guiding principles that, when acted upon, make us stronger, more innovative and more creative as an organisation.

We commit to not only significantly increasing our efforts to effect change today, but also to ensure that our efforts will be sustained for the long-term.

To support us on this journey we have appointed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Board to help shape our plans to bring about positive change, to help us learn and keep us all moving forward together.

We believe the responsibility for a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace ultimately rests with all of us.

We believe that all employees should feel a sense of belonging at Imagination - regardless of their race, religion or belief, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability or background.

We believe racism has no place within our workplace or our work culture and we reject all forms of hatred, prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.

We believe that Black Lives Matter and it is our expectation that all employees become actively committed to making unbiased choices and are anti racist in everything they do. Our Imagination community must share and live these beliefs, as diversity makes us stronger.

Our priority is humanity and our efforts towards a more diverse, more equitable, and more inclusive workplace are never done.

Application

If you are not a perfect fit for the description above, please feel free to make a case for why you're the right person for the job.

Send us a cover letter and state why you think we should consider you. Talent comes in all forms and we want to encourage applications from as many different backgrounds as possible.

We love nothing more than creative, unique and distinct value driven experiences that push the envelope and connect with our audiences.