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About the Role

As Project Manager - Motion, you will be the engine behind the energy, ensuring the Motion team runs at its best by building and maintaining the operational setup that allows creativity to thrive. You will bring order to complexity so the team can focus on making exceptional work.

Responsibilities

• Own resourcing across all Motion projects, from incoming briefs to final delivery.
• Maintain a clear, real-time view of team capacity.
• Match talent to projects based on skill, availability and creative fit.
• Spot gaps early and solve them before they become problems.
• Navigate competing priorities with clarity and fairness.
• Build accurate, defensible time quotes for all Motion briefs.
• Translate creative ambition into realistic plans.
• Track projects against estimates and flag risks early.
• Develop a robust quoting library to improve accuracy over time.
• Partner with Client Services and Production to enable smarter planning.
• Own and evolve the Motion freelance roster.
• Recommend the right talent for the right briefs.
• Manage freelance bookings end-to-end: outreach, onboarding, delivery.
• Track freelance performance and continuously raise the bar.
• Identify and onboard new talent to fill capability gaps.
• Own and maintain resourcing and scheduling tools.
• Identify inefficiencies and implement practical improvements.
• Report on capacity and utilisation to senior stakeholders.
• Support forward planning and forecasting for busy periods.
• Act as the go-to for Motion availability and capability queries.

Requirements

• Proven experience in operations, resourcing or production within a creative or motion environment.
• Strong understanding of motion and CGI workflows and how projects are scoped.
• Highly organised, able to juggle multiple moving parts without losing detail.
• Confident with resourcing and project management tools.
• Clear, direct communicator who manages expectations well.
• Commercial awareness, with a solid grasp of time, cost and profitability.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to build trust across creative and operational teams.
• Send a CV and a short note covering your current situation and interest in this role based on your skills and experience to date.

Location

• Shoreditch

Work Type

• Hybrid working policy, minimum 2 days pw in the studio
• Fixed term contract
• Potential to extend to a permanent role
• 2 weeks work from anywhere, by agreement with line manager

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Bupa Healthcare, including dental option
• Income protection & life insurance
• Classpass credits
• Group personal pension
• 25 days holiday + time given at Christmas and New Year
• Summer Fridays x 2
• Birthday day off
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced parental leave policies
• Referral scheme for new hires

About the Company

• Jones Knowles Ritchie is a branding business, founded in 1990 and proudly independent ever since.
• Started out in the world of packaging, now worldwide with over 300 employees across the UK and USA.
• Build and deliver brands across the entire consumer experience.
• Mission: To inspire brands and people to be their true selves. To be brave. Be tenacious. And above all, be yourself.
• Belief: Being your true self is the only way to truly be distinctive, everywhere.
• The Motion & CGI team create best-in-class motion design for some of the world’s biggest brands.
• The work is bold, fast, and creatively ambitious.
• Great work runs on precision.

Equal Opportunity

• At JKR, our goal is to create an equitable, diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects and creates for the societies we live in.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is a long-term business imperative and a commitment at JKR.
• You will demonstrate being a DE+I advocate and champion with your actions and participation.