The Role

As our Project Director, this is a crucial day to day role within our team as the lead for the interagency collaboration and will bring workstreams and projects together within defined timings.

It is a lynch pin role and managing internal teams and working closely with partner agencies and feeding the detail back to the BAT project leads. You will be a trusted adviser when it comes to organisational best practices and work with the team to ensure risks and issues are resolved quickly.

You will take responsibility for the overall co-ordination of all workstreams, development and performance of our fellow agency workstreams as well as support, lead and push project through stage gates. 

This is a 6 month FTC with potential to extend.

About you

Internally called Orchestration Lead, the Project Director will have experience in a similar role working on digital asset development projects on a large fast paced client. Passion for digital, across paid, owned and earned channels, you'll have a deep understanding of the digital landscape, trends and technologies.

You’ll need to develop an excellent understanding of the client’s business, brands and processes in this specific category, ideally with some past experience of the sector.

A brilliant juggler, you are able to manage a multitude of different projects at once while proactively anticipating issues and sticking to tight deadlines. You'll thrive in a fast paced environment, have strong organisation skills and always be ready to roll your sleeves up and get involved where needed. You’ll be aware of the bigger picture of the total account and share best practice with the team and the client. You understand the micro versus macro and can easily switch between the two, understanding what to delegate and where to apply your focus in order to drive a multi-brand program of work across a myriad of delivery teams.

You enjoy a challenging and ever changing environment and reorganising and reprioritising does not phase you. You know when you let something go if it means a win down the line. You can maintain excellent client, external agency and internal team communication ensuring all parties are kept up to date on project status and implications regarding delays.

We are looking for a confident and effective communicator who enjoys building strong working relationships with clients and colleagues, who can stand up for what’s the best plan and stick to it bringing a wider team along with you as you go. By quickly gaining trust, authority and respect from the client at all times you will strive to exceed their expectations.

Responsibilities

• Leads projects from start to finish making sure they are delivered on time and all the relevant parties have seen the output.

• Anticipating creative challenges and thinking outside the box to providing the environment for creative solutions for agency partners while also keeping the project on track timings wise.

• Control the flow of information and communication to effectively manage a multi-brand program of work

• Be the point of escalation, empowered and trusted to make decisions when a project is facing difficulties, with strong relationships with senior clients and Beat people.

• Day to day oversight of the overall orchestration team (within this one account portfolio)

• Define responsibilities, set direction, and allocate roles within this team.

• Lead best practice within your team to deliver high-volume, multi-channel productions – managing deliverables and approvals as required with relevant parties.

• Have visibility of upcoming briefs and chase BAT on briefs where required.

• Developing further Ways of Working and process within the team and with BAT as needed.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven experience in working in a fast-paced agency or consultancy environment

• Proven ability to work well under pressure, with a high degree of flexibility and fluidity, while maintaining an objective focused and positive approach

• Extensive experience managing programs of work for blue-chip firms/clients.

• Team player with top class interpersonal and communication skills

• Managed relationships at a senior level within large corporations. Comfortable working with senior management.

• Proven client management abilities to negotiate scope and finances

• Proven organisational skills

• Very strong meeting facilitation skills

• Ability to run client meetings of up to 20 people on multiple subject areas and on multiple projects.

About T&Pm

T&Pm is one of the world’s leading full service creative and media agencies, connecting talent and tech to drive growth for brands. Formed by the integration of The&Partnership and mSix&Partners, it brings together content and distribution into a single, holistic end-to-end marketing solution. Backed by WPP and GroupM and combined with the agility of an entrepreneurial Partner-led mindset, the multi-discipline agency spans four continents with 45 offices and over $1.2 billion dollars in billings globally. As an early adopter with the first ever AI-generated TV ad for Lexus in 2018, T&Pm is focused on harnessing AI across all its outputs with its 1,900 people already trained on WPP’s proprietary AI platform Creative Studio, to deliver enhanced outcomes for clients.   

We believe in The Power of &, connecting talent & tech to fuel brand growth.  Our teams blend creative, media, experience and technology specialists from across our marketing practices.  The performance mindset of these teams optimises to business outcomes in every channel, fueled by the latest innovations in AI.  Working alongside our clients’ marketing departments, we deliver ‘&mplified Creativity’ to solve their business and brand challenges seamlessly, creatively and efficiently.

Ultimately of course, we are our people. They’re the most important part of our business, so we want to make a lasting impression on them in the same way they do on us, by striving to become the most important place in their careers.   

That’s why we do our best to build strong communities around them; provide the best possible opportunities for them to develop & grow; and empower them to make a difference to their clients and the world at large. Our strengths often lie in our differences, so we challenge and champion each other and our clients, to be the very best we can be.

T&Pm embraces and celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are a worldwide creative agency that represents global clients. The more inclusive we are, the more brilliant work we can create together.