About the Role
We are seeking a dynamic Project Manager to join our team in Bankside, London. This role is an initial fixed-term contract with the potential to become permanent. The ideal candidate thrives on collaboration, creativity, and transforming visions into reality, ensuring teams are inspired, clients are confident, and projects move seamlessly from concept to completion. If you are passionate about big ideas, problem-solving, and execution, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary contact for communicating needs between the client, team, and vendors.
- Understand client's short and long-term goals, and their competition.
- Inform clients on how to drive project success.
- Deliver solutions to drive consensus for problems professionally and timely.
- Support the development of solutions to drive client business.
- Maintain a unique perspective of a common goal to increase knowledge, communication, and awareness between team members and the client.
- Align the team to project goals by sharing client insights and objectives.
- Create solid project plans with top-down and bottom-up budgets to support clients’ interests.
- Execute project plans according to established procedures, channels, and expectations.
- Manage and maintain project scopes and communicate scope status to the team.
- Participate in client and internal meetings.
- Coordinate project deliverables and guide the team on potential risks.
- Create an articulate storyline of all client materials.
- Define, negotiate, communicate, implement, and monitor quality standards on all project deliverables.
- Manage project communication and document issues and changes affecting the project.
- Develop status reports and work with project leaders to ensure all resources are utilized.
- Create a positive, team-oriented environment that promotes award-winning work.
- Forecast, track, and manage project budgets and revenue, POs, and invoices.
- Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate project risks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience managing various digital project types including site builds, e-commerce, marketing campaigns, microsites, and maintenance.
- Experience with office productivity tools such as Excel, Word, MS Project, Smartsheet, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with collaboration and issue tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Strong understanding of managing and controlling project scope, schedule, budget, resource management/reporting, change management, project roadmap development, and revenue forecasting.
- Strong knowledge of Project Management principles, methods, and techniques.
- Experience managing teams and client conversations regarding scope, schedule, budget, roadmaps, objectives, and strategies.
- Ability to tactically organize and structure activities with attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and responsiveness to feedback.
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills to facilitate effective task and resource management.
- Demonstrated communication, presentation, management, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
- Solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to lead by example.
- Ability to stay focused on driving goals, even in high-pressure situations.
Skills
- Project Management
- Digital Project Delivery
- Client Relations
- Scope Management
- Schedule Management
- Budget Management
- Resource Management
- Change Management
- Roadmap Development
- Revenue Forecasting
- Risk Management
- Communication
- Presentation
- Negotiation
- Leadership
- Decision-making
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
Location
- Bankside, London
Work Type
- Fixed-term contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent.
- We believe that talent is uniquely distributed and focus on developing inclusive teams.
- We celebrate differences to foster better collaboration.
- We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Equal Opportunity
- Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.
- Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
