Senior Project Manager - FTC

Overview

Landor is looking for a 6 Month FTC - Senior Project Manager to join our London studio. Could this be you?

We are Landor. World-leading brand experts, underpinning the most expansive strategic & creative capabilities in our category. We make brands more valuable and less vulnerable. We build brands differently. We work with our clients to define and solve their business problems through the lens of brand. We strategically join the dots between our design, experience, governance and measurement capabilities, and always connect our brand work to business outcomes. Landor companies also include amp (sonic branding), bdg (workplace & architectural experts), Deep Local (creative technologists) and ManvsMachine (3D motion design). We are part of WPP.

What you'll do

The Senior Project Manager is a guardian of the creative process, budget, and scope, taking full ownership of assigned accounts and directing the workflow of all projects. This role requires proactive creation and management of multi-channel master timing plans, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. The Senior Project Manager drives projects through the agency, overseeing planning, creative resourcing, and monitoring progress throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Ownership and Process Management: Take ownership of assigned accounts and the workflow of all projects, directing process and ensuring adherence to established procedures.
• Drive projects through the agency: Ensure seamless execution from initiation to completion.
• Tracking and financials: Implement and maintain trackers to align all financial data, facilitating smoother tracking and oversight of all projects.
• Documentation and compliance: Ensure all financial details are sent to finance for proper documentation and archiving.
• Project closure: Participate in Quarterly Job Closers to ensure all project documentation is complete and accurate.
• Financial hygiene: Prioritize monthly WIP alignment and commentary to maintain accurate financial tracking.
• Planning and Resourcing: Proactively create multi-channel integrated master timing plans/programs and ensure adherence to timelines and budgets.
• Resource planning: Responsible for planning, creative resourcing, and monitoring progress throughout the project. Create and manage staff plans on Ground Control, ensuring alignment with project needs. Manage resource requests on Ground Control, coordinating with weekly revenue meetings to adjust resource allocation based on project changes.
• Scope and Budget Management: Manage and oversee project scope and/or retainers where appropriate. Manage budget breakdown and allocation across production disciplines. Manage estimates, purchasing, and invoice approvals for third-party costs where necessary. Check client pricing tools monthly to ensure alignment with finance systems.
• Creative Development and Production: Own the creative development phases, by organising (and leading if necessary) kick-off meetings, creative reviews, and any integrated production meetings. Partner with production specialists as required to inform and approve production decisions, ensuring work is scoped with production partners prior to client presentations. Ensure all concepts and project documentation are approved prior to client presentation.
• Financial Management and Reporting: Sense check pricing with client services. Update Price Estimates with ERP Job Numbers in SugarCRM. Issue Price Estimates on SugarCRM to support studios, ensuring alignment with revenue tracking. Lead budget/QRF revenue forecasting, leveraging knowledge of clients and projects. Track and send PO details to finance, including billing schedules.
• Client and Team Communication: Dependent on the client, the PM should go through revenue with CS and CP Team on a Weekly/Bi Weekly basis to discuss revenue/billing/outstanding queries and RvR. Notes should always be taken and a summary email sent on action points. This keeps everyone updated on what is happening and next steps to follow to get queries sorted in a timely fashion and helps when people are covering or if someone leaves. Facilitate weekly revenue meetings with PM/CP and CS teams, updating SugarCRM with relevant information. Coordinate team meetings and ensure smooth communication across departments. Send weekly reminders to teams to complete timesheets, linking to resource allocation.
• System and Tool Proficiency: Experience in using SugarCRM for client and opportunity management, price estimates, and revenue forecasting. Utilize Ground Control for staff planning, resource requests, and review of resource spend. Experienced in using ERP systems for job number setup, revenue recognition, and invoice management. Skilled in using Excel for pricing, budget forecasting, and tracker creation. Create and manage final wash-up meetings to inform process changes for future projects.

What you'll need

• Previous agency experience managing large-scale, multi-channel projects with production knowledge across multiple channels.
• Proven ability at managing agency resources and management of teams is essential.
• Leadership ability.
• Excellent communication, time management, and organisational skills.
• Pro-active, can-do attitude. Motivated, resilient, able to work at pace to respond to the constantly evolving requirements of projects and the tenacity to respond to unexpected challenges, calm under pressure, and promotes positivity.
• Strong interpersonal, networking, and relationship-building skills.
• Skilled negotiator with experience dealing with a variety of stakeholders.
• A creative passion, strong self-confidence, and personal integrity, with the courage to express your creative opinion, ensuring the highest quality product.
• Strong financial acumen for budgetary management, ensuring costs are controlled and key timings and deliverables are met.
• Naturally collaborative in outlook.
• Experienced in using Workbook (preference but not essential).

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we've adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

We build brands. We build futures. Landor, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics, committed to a culture of respect where everyone belongs and can progress in their careers.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome all applications regardless of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.