OverviewWe’re VaynerMedia!

We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, DandAD and The Webbies to name a few.

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it . VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH.

We’re looking for a strong Project Director with a robust understanding of social media, comfort with production and exceptional project management and operations skills to support the day to day running of multiple accounts across the agency.

In this role, you’ll help deliver insights driven work while strengthening client and partner agency relationships both in the UK and across EMEA.

Please note we plan to offer this role as a fixed term contract (FTC).

Here’s where you come in…

Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities as a Project Director will be to develop your designated portfolio into a well-functioning and profitable business unit.

Your input is imperative to develop a strategic approach to the delivery process that is within the VaynerMedia ways of working, but at the same time relevant for the client needs.

Manage the programme of work - financial planning, directing, and coordinating activities to ensure that all project objectives are complete within the defined period and budget.

Ensure Agency, Client, Vendor, and Legal processes and requirements are being met

Responsible for the management of many variations of ATL and digital and social content (video, image, websites, TVC, print, retail etc.), ensuring quality control, and delivering/trafficking all assets to required agency partners/media teams/clients

Hands-on ownership of complex strategic projects, requiring senior stakeholder management and serve as the primary interface with the relevant clients

Scope development to determine goals and deliverables, time frame, budgets, working processes and resource requirements.

Oversee/coordinate portfolio resources and day-to-day activities to ensure projects progress on schedule and within prescribed budget.

Constantly monitor and report on project progress, manage and validate change requests as required

Overall, being solutions-focused; the go-to person to assess challenges, always identifying the opportunity for possibility

Lead by example

Taking the driver’s seat and pushing the work forward, with a relentless focus on the details

Partner with the Account, Strategy, Media and Creative leads to ensure client expectations, creative vision, and agency needs are met from briefing through final delivery on projects

Tracking financial progression, ensuring it is shared and assessed, taking the lead in suggesting and making adjustments to the project and team as needed

Constantly identifying risks and solutions - being the problem solver in ensuring we remain agile and strategic throughout the project lifecycle

Be heavily client-facing to speak to budget, timing, resource and process considerations

Motivate and support

Provide motivation and mentorship to the PM team and be the first point of escalation for issue/conflict resolution on all projects

Support the Head of Delivery to help monitor PM’s, and have line reports of your own were applicable

Support Head of Delivery to continually match and optimise skill-level/experience and aspiration of the project managers to the needs

We treasure Personality and

Experience

yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what

WE KNOW

as a success:

Qualifications

Previous experience managing a portfolio of brands

Advanced leadership, management and mentorship skills

Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

Proven negotiation skills

Hands-on experience and ownership of complex strategic projects, requiring senior stakeholder management

Ability to recognise and solve potential problems, escalate issues or conflicts and continually evaluate project effectiveness.

Manage overall quality of project delivery and documentation for the account

Strong communication skills and an impressive attention to detail

A cool, calm and collected approach to problem-solving

Ability to thrive and remain agile in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment

Strong self-awareness and people-management skills

Understanding of relevant social media platforms and their requirement

Here’s how We Support YouWe regularly review our benefits and are committed to providing a comprehensive programme for our people.

Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave

Journey EAP - proactive and crisis support with life concierge services

Enhanced Parental Leave

Unlimited Coaching sessions, which can be private and team class sessions

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)

Cash Plan with Medicash - Level 1 cover, option to add partner, 4 children can be added for free

Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Group Personal Pension.

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMediaThink “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.K.

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