CREATIVE SOLUTIONS PROJECT MANAGER

Location: London (Hybrid – 2 days in office, 3 days remote)
Job Type: 5 Month FTC
Department: Commercial
Reporting to: Creative Solutions Director

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A proven track record of delivering successful campaigns and projects
• A good understanding of the cross-platform sales process and commercial projects in general
• Excellent relationship-building skills internally and externally with clients and suppliers
• Have at least 5 years of project management experience, preferably in a publishing environment
• Ability to learn on the job to develop a working knowledge of the Time Out’s platform, technologies and processes – identifying knowledge gaps and taking the necessary steps to fill these
• Maintain internal working processes within the wider commercial team

ROLE OVERVIEW

A key pillar of the Time Out sales strategy is to drive revenue growth from creativity via integrated solutions that bring together the power of the Time Out product portfolio. This role is a client-facing position, working with the creative solutions strategists and sales team to execute these creative ideas.
The position of Creative Solutions Project Manager requires a strong background in multi-platform content marketing and project management. The successful candidate will need to be an assured self-starter with experience working in a busy multi-media environment and a strong record of successful campaign delivery and high-quality content execution.
This role calls for someone who is on top of trends re: execution of those proposed campaigns via social media platforms, website platforms, print platforms and experiential platforms.
The Creative Solutions Project Manager will be responsible for managing a number of different campaigns at one time from large scale multi-media integrated partnerships and custom content solutions, to smaller commercial campaigns.
Although part of the commercial team, this role will work closely with editorial, design, production and technology operation teams to glean insight and manage commercial processes where involvement from these teams is required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work in tandem with the Branded Content Editor on executing custom content, including digital features, newsletters, experiential events, social content, video and more.
• Collaborate with internal resource and external suppliers to create accurate and achievable project timelines.
• Commission videographers and content creators on social video content and manage the shoot process, attending shoots where necessary.
• Run individual project P&Ls to ensure all projects run within stipulated profit margin.
• Facilitating amendment/approval process between clients and suppliers.
• Attending client and agency meetings and leading status updates
• Work alongside the delivery team to schedule and optimise digital and social campaigns to deliver agreed client KPIs.
• Regularly report on delivery and key metrics for creative solutions campaigns, working closely with the creative solutions strategists.
• Occasionally contribute to internal brainstorming sessions for collaborative concept generation and proposal making.