Freelance Marketing Project Manager

ABOUT THE GROWTH FOUNDATION

At The Growth Foundation, (TGF) we work a range of growing businesses; from established multi- nationals to exciting £20m+ scale ups.

The growth these companies are experiencing (be it too fast, or too slow) can make them feel uncertain and worried about getting it wrong. But we’re a team of experts who know how to get growth right, and we help them avoid pitfalls and grab the opportunities. We help them across all aspects of their business with their ecommerce, trading, finding good people, CRM, paid media and search, and brand & creative.

As a business, TGF is growing too, which comes with its own challenges. Across our departments, we’re now at a stage where we need a brilliant freelance organiser to manage workflow, workload and efficiency and support the teams in all our departments.

The department most immediately in need of these skills is Brand & Creative. The team is led by Ed Cox (Chief Communication Officer) and Jamie Romain (Chief Creative Officer) who manage two in-house creatives and the creative teams of our clients.

ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for an experienced freelance Project Manager to work with TGF 2 x days per week to help realise its potential as a well-oiled, efficient, high-performing and profitable business. Starting within Brand and Creative before applying these learnings to other departments, this is an internal and client facing role where you will:

* Plan, run and manage departmental workloads. Making sure departments never take on too much work and maximising their utility if any of the teams are under-utilised.
* Drive process: Introducing the right kind meetings, processes and measures to help us get to great work effortlessly.
* Improve delivery. Keeping us to timings and making sure client deadlines are hit.
* Improve profitability: Making sure we don’t over-work on projects and keeping us to the hours committed in out scope
* Build budgets and scopes: Knowing how long work takes, how much things cost and understanding the process involved, you will (with our support) create scopes of work and build budgets that make sure we commit the right hours and charge the right amount for any work we do.
* Build client trust: Joining us in meetings with key clients, you’ll give them reassurance that the projects we are working on are well-run and on track.
* Manage client expectation: Stopping scope creep, reassuring on delivery, explaining the impact of changes to scopes and briefs.
* Spot commercial opportunities: Working with us, you’ll help us find new ways to productise and grow the department.
* Grow our reputation: Help us find and enter awards that showcase our work to a wider audience and build the fame of TGF.

ATTITUDE:
This role is for you if you:
* Are incredibly well-organised.
* Are commercially minded and excited about how to help TGF grow.
* Are confident with clients; communicating with clarity and empathy, but also able to be firm and assertive from a place of positivity.
* Aren’t into a being a cog in a big corporate wheel, and want to be part of a fast-moving start-up agency where you can define your own path.
* Love working with a real mix of people, and being around a business that makes great work or its clients.
* Can multi-task for England, staying on top of different projects for different brands at the same time.
* Collaborate well and take feedback.
* Respect the work and the people you work with.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
* Have 5+ years’ experience managing budgets and timelines for delivering work from concept to delivery in an advertising, branding or integrated marketing agency; either as a Project Manager, Creative Services Manager, Traffic Manager or Producer.
* Have experience delivering advertising, CRM, Paid Social and web projects.
* Have a black book of contacts in the creative industries that you can draw upon to give clients (and us) context for how long work takes, what the standard is and how much it costs.
* Are a black belt in Excel. Keynote/Powerpoint an added bonus
* Know how to use Monday (or similar), our workflow planning tool.

This is a freelance (2 days per week) remote role with occasion travel when required.

We would love to respond to every application however due to the volume of applications we receive this isn't always possible. If you have not heard within 2 weeks of applying, please assume on this occasion that your application has not been shortlisted. We may retain your CV to contact you about future employment opportunities that are being managed by The Growth Foundation Talent.

The Growth Foundation Talent is deeply committed to building a diverse & inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.