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Lead Project Manager at The Guardian

Lead Project Manager

The Guardian · England

1 weeks ago

Lead Project Manager

The Guardian · England

10 days ago
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About the Role

The Lead Project Manager will manage the costing, planning, and delivery of commercial elements for key strategic editorial projects, primarily audio and video content, for a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Responsibilities

  • Manage campaigns from initial ideas to post-campaign analysis, ensuring timelines and budgets are adhered to.
  • Support the pre-sales and pitch process for multichannel campaigns, focusing on audio and video.
  • Produce cost estimates and delivery schedules, managing campaign budgets.
  • Work closely with teams to plan and deliver video-first, personality-led journalism projects and client campaigns, ensuring authentic brand integration.

Requirements

  • Extensive hands-on, end-to-end multimedia or project management experience, preferably within a publisher, broadcaster, production company, or agency.
  • Experience supporting commercial pre-sales processes and building project budgets for multimedia campaigns.
  • Demonstrable experience of managing complex stakeholder groups across editorial and commercial teams.
  • Working knowledge of video production workflows, rights, and licensing considerations.

Location

  • Kings Cross
  • Remote

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Fixed-term contract

Salary/Compensations

  • Minimum £30,000 per annum for full-time roles

Benefits

  • 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Option to purchase an additional 5 days of annual leave
  • Generous pension scheme (5% employee contribution, 8-12% employer contribution)
  • 2 volunteering days annually
  • Option of payroll giving
  • Season ticket loans
  • Private healthcare
  • Life cover
  • Income protection
  • Eye tests
  • Optional dental insurance
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies
  • IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policies
  • Access to employee benefits platform for health and wellbeing support
  • Free yoga and Pilates classes
  • Corporate gym membership
  • Cycle to work scheme

About the Company

  • A diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism.
  • Holds power to account through award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts.
  • Committed to making a difference and representing a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
  • Offers a challenging and exciting environment for career development with a focus on training, growth, and fostering an inclusive culture.
  • Proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
  • First major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.

Equal Opportunity

  • Actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
  • Value and respect all differences in all people.
  • Aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience served.
  • Ensure people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard, and can contribute to the future.
  • Actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
  • All roles are open for everybody to apply.
  • Support throughout the recruitment process, including providing documents in accessible formats or personalizing the process.