Creative Outdoor Project Manager Full Time

Global

Job Description

Creative Outdoor Project Manager

Reporting of the Role

This role reports to Outdoor Creative Lead

Overview of job

Global is one of the world’s leading Media & Entertainment groups, and Global’s Creative Outdoor department is a newly created team that has the vision to become a centre of creative consultation and development. We are responsible for drive the innovation and creativity agenda for Global internally and externally and raising the bar for creativity in outdoor by focusing on ‘moving’ people.

In the context of an increasingly competitive marketplace, it is vital that we maintain a competitive advantage through an improved service to our clients – both internal (Commercial) & external (advertisers & agencies).

As a Project Manager you will be the first point of contact for all our briefs coming into the team and help manage these jobs from brief to delivery. You will be working with the Creative team and to the wider Commercial Team, its advertisers and clients and help with administrative support for all these stakeholders.

You’ll provide end to end project management throughout the project lifecycle – through initial briefing, estimating and budgeting, to scheduling, production and delivery, and all the admin that goes on post-delivery. This will involve building processes and streamlining current process to find the best way of creating this.

Typical administrative duties will include managing team spreadsheets, processing invoices, raising POs, input data in company systems.Production support may include sourcing the right talent for the specific brief, booking them, and manage back and forth. Opportunity to be part of developing new products to market from ideation to execution and implementation.

3 best things about the job

• Opportunity to be part of developing new products to market from ideation to execution and implementation
• No one day will be the same – taking a random observation and making it happen
• Relationship building. Building and maintaining excellent relationships with key Creative Agency clients, proactively identifying opportunities to deliver innovative and award winning campaigns

Measures of success –

In the first few months, you would have:

• Got to grips with the job and be running your own projects from quoting to delivery.
• Helped develop the new process of being the first point of contact for all incoming jobs.
• To be aware and keep up to date with the market and competitor media landscape to challenge the status quo and drive market leading innovation and Global revenue growth.
• Suported in identifying new opportunities to be further developed into creative and innovative solutions
• Developed a creative and innovative approach that is solution focused
• Understand outdoor dynamic capabilities and the technology that can power new ideas and innovative campaigns
• Owned our team culture, fun, activities & how we work well and stay connected with part remote working.
• Completely understand our revenue, including reporting, booking, tracking and sharing our success.
• Collaborate with wider Outdoor Commercial Team & decided on exciting projects to work on outside of our day to day that you are passionate about.

Responsibilities of the role

• To accept and meet creative goals as set by the Outdoor Creative Director to optimise revenue
• To be the first point of contact for new incoming briefs & managing workloads for the team
• To manage the processes of the briefs and work on streamlining/improving these
• To support with the implementation of new innovative products and propositions from inception to delivery and productisation.
• To manage team revenue spreadsheets including forecasting and attributable revenue.
• To manage budgets/quoting for all jobs coming in.
• Work on team culture, communication, connection and creative ability. Find out what we need to work best and create room for creativity.
• To approve invoices, create POs, share POs with production partners & manage reporting of these.
• To source production partners and handle diaries and timelines
• To book meeting rooms, refreshments and hospitality for our clients and guests
• To help Outdoor Creative Lead to run effective meeting and creative sessions
• To assist team members with presentations for creative sessions and workshops
• using PPT and Keynote.
• To help make mood boards for the team and presentations.
• To look for new production partner and build our database of creative talents
• To utilise all internal resources to build on our position within the industry.
• To be an ambassador for the Creative team, promoting our key credentials at every available opportunity.
• To show a dedication to delivering a high level of customer service.
• To utilise all feedback, training and coaching.
• To provide positive contributions to the creative process, including options for increasing revenue.
• Submitting award entries
• Account Management skills
• An excellent level of support to Creative team members and Global’s wider commercial team.
• Delivery of outdoor/production and targets.
• Delivery of team revenue objectives.
• Accurate reporting of team revenue
• To initiate ideas that raise the quality of both the production and content of all outdoor presentations

What you will need

The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:

• Meticulous attention to detail
• Strong administrative office skills, including Excel and Keynote
• Quick learner
• Excellent organizational skills
• Good knowledge of the UK advertising marketplace
• General knowledge of advertising, creative process and production
• Ability to balance several projects at once
• Willingness to learn new skills and push the creative boundaries
• Customer focused approach
• Creative thinker
• Self-awareness and confidence
• Personal integrity
• Straight-talking, honest and a good team player
• Drive and determination
• Perseverance and determination
• Flexible and able to balance multiple tasks
• Hardworking and persuasive
• Results Driven

Everyone is welcome at Global

Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Global