Creative Programme Director CG / 3 month contract / London
A Production agency is looking for a freelance Programme Director with production agency experience to lead the implementation of a CG programme for our home appliance manufacturing client.
As a Programme Director, you acutely understand the opportunities and constraints of a given project and help operate it like clockwork. Taking responsibility for setting and managing expectations internally, you deliver on time, within budget and against agreed objectives.
You will have full lifecycle experience from scoping through delivery and can confidently navigate and prioritise business needs, resource management, schedules, and financials to successfully manage and deliver all aspects of the assignment.
We are based in London, but you’d be interacting with global teams, working in close partnership with leadership in the US for maximal efficiency and use of time-zones.
In this role, you will have exposure to every part of the process working across strategy, creative, analytics, and technology.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee team of global project managers leading different workstreams across different agencies.
- Responsible for developing end-to-end project plans, outlining tasks, timelines and resources required to achieve goals within budget for flawless execution of projects.
- Partner with account leadership in meticulous scoping and resource allocation.
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks. Able to quickly identify dependencies and the cascading impacts of delays.
- Able to navigate ambiguity and implement solution-oriented approaches internally and externally.
- Create, maintain, and archive comprehensive project documentation and assets.
- Accountable for project health, leveraging existing tools and processes to monitor resources, budget, schedule, and status.
- Partner with account leadership and production to manage scope and identify opportunities.
- Help to continually improve the production delivery practices and techniques.
- Establish and maintain relationships with other partners as well as third parties/vendors.
- Ensure a collaborative approach comprising both client and agency representatives, being a master communicator across the global offices and related partners.
- Report and escalate to management as needed.
- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.
Skills & Experience:
- Experience implementing project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Lean, Kanban) to the needs of the project.
- Proven experience managing production, performance marketing projects and/or large digital and social campaigns in an agency.
- Experience working with some of the common project management tools such as Jira/Confluence, Trello, Productive, MS Project/Primavera, Asana.
- Sharp attention to detail and a drive for perfection.
- Excellent communication and analytical skills.
- Knowledge of the CG pipeline is essential.
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 3 month freelance contract
Location: London (on-site 1-2 days a week)
Rate: £400pd
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