Project Manager

OLIVER+ is a global team of creative thinkers, tech-savvy trendsetters, and production pros specialising in film, CGI, automation, AI, motion design, and digital/print content. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our focus is to connect clients with high-quality solutions, talent and ambitious opportunities worldwide. 

As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

Role: Mid Project Manager

Location: Remote



About the Role:

• The client is expanding the team with an off-shore Project Manager, a global FMCG company with multiple international brands and house-hold names in its stable.
• We are looking to recruit a Project Manager to work on this account as a dedicated member of the UK team on a fixed-term contract basis. This is a remote role and a great opportunity to work within an international team, creating impactful communications across many channels and developing best practices in brand communication for brands across the portfolio.
• This role will be underpinned by passion and ambition, and those with experience in eComm toolkits, particularly Amazon, will have an advantage. Medical experience would also be a bonus.
• The Project Manager is responsible for running creative and production processes and is very client facing. The Project Manager will be the main point of contact for their clients but will have the support of the Account Director. The PM will thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to juggle multiple projects, and multiple clients.
• The candidate needs to have an unrivaled understanding of eComm – experience with Digital, Social, Motion Design and/ or print projects is a bonus.
• The PM is confident working in agency teams in a remote environment. You create timing plans within our system, assume responsibility for the review and approval process of creative output and ensure the projects you own, run on time and on budget.
• You will need to be great with creative teams, hard-working and passionate about creative and producing the best product you can. Process is key, and someone who really respects and understands that, although creative needs freedom, it also needs to follow a framework and process to allow it to thrive.
• What we want to see is a proven track record of producing multiple complex projects. You should have meticulous attention to detail, understand the importance of the profitability of your projects for the agency and you will have proven yourself as a safe pair of hands on the day-to-day running of multiple prestigious projects.
• Most important, this role requires a courteous, positive and high-energy individual with great people skills. We value hard work, and we want to have fun doing it.  
  
  
  
  

• What You'll be Doing:
  
  

• Project Set Up
• Being the key point of contact for brand teams.
• Predominantly managing eComm, but there may be some Digital, Social, Motion Design and/ or print projects, across different sized clients and across different time zones; from initial brief to final delivery.
• Taking overall ownership of integrated creative projects from brief to fulfilment, transforming unclear briefs into well prepared briefs where applicable, as part of a wider team.
• Manage the scoping, costing and planning of projects across different briefs.
• Identifying, exploiting and managing ad hoc opportunities when they arise.
• Estimating complex, cross-platform projects.
  
  
  

• Project Delivery
• Schedule projects in line with the correct internal resource and help to source external resource where necessary.
• Ensure projects follow the agency process and are completed on time and on budget.
• Motivate and manage you team under tight deadlines.
• Educate and manage internal stakeholders in relevant production processes where necessary.
• Owns the organisation, storing and sharing of resources across both our, and the clients, Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems and our online storage cloud (BOX).
• Drive efficiency and creative excellence at all times.
• Reporting
• Provide job reporting to the Account Director on a regular basis to ensure projects are running correctly, to budget and schedule.
• Ensures they understand how to report and manage operational income for their projects in a timely and accurate manner.
• Escalates any queries concerning scope management, invoicing, or estimates on their projects to the Account Director.
  
  
  
  

• Management
• Management of our two Designers (both based off-shore) including helping with client briefings, ensuring they're clear and complete, and aiding with resourcing and workflow.
  
  
  
  

• What You'll Need:
• Experience with eComm toolkits, particularly Amazon.
• Excellent English Language & Communication Skills
• Experience managing digital and integrated campaigns in a creative and production agency.
• Be unafraid to ask questions and have an innate ability to identify and manage project risk.
• Strong track record in executing campaigns across multiple platforms.
• Previous experience of Project Budget Management and Scheduling.
• Previous experience of Resource and Production services sourcing.
• Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.
• Have a positive, can-do outlook, willing to leverage past experience to provide the best solution for each project you own.
• Be willing to share your experience where relevant and when it adds to the offering to the client.
• Be financially conscientious when managing the delivery of a project ensuring all relevant parties are aware of financial implications of delays, additional amends and re-briefs.
• Be able to verify the qualitative and quantitative output of a project against the project objectives.
• Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service.
  
  

We are looking for people who want to work closer with clients and brands, who are entrepreneurial and relish the opportunity to be a part of something new and dynamic.

• Personal attributes:
• Confident and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing client environment
• A passionate and inspiring creative
• The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively
• Self-motivated and organized
• Collaborative team player
• Proactive, helpful and enthusiastic
• You'll Have:
  
  
  
  

• Creative and conceptional thinker
• Passionate about design
• Confident and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing client environment
• The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively
• Self-motivated and organized
• Collaborative team player
• proactive, helpful and enthusiastic
• Good to have:
  
  
  
  

• History of work in eComms
• Experience in Medical a bonus
• Multi-market experience
• Experience in Automation a plus
  
  

Our values shape everything we do:

Be Ambitious to succeed 

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what's possible 

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work 

Be always learning and listening to understand 

Be Results-focused  to exceed expectations 

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations 

OLIVER+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws. 

OLIVER+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.'