16 Oct

Project Manager – London

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About Us 

We are DS.Emotion.

We make places successful.

We make successful places.

DS.Emotion is a highly innovative, industry leading independent agency who specialise in place making, branding & marketing. 

We have over 30 years experience in helping to make the amazing places we work with commercially and socially successful. For us, this means developing authentic place brands that attract and engage with wide and diverse audiences, creating places that make long-term positive changes to people’s lives. 

We have branded and marketed some of the UK’s most exciting and inspirational residential and commercial destinations. We’re proud to have won national awards over the years in recognition of our team’s hard but rewarding work.

Who we work for 

We support our private-sector clients who consist of some of the UK’s most dynamic and influential development companies, land owners and pension funds.

We also run inward investment initiatives and place marketing campaigns for numerous local authorities, LEPs and BIDs, providing brand driven marketing campaigns, events and promotions to advance and promote physical development and economic growth.

The DS.Emotion London team largely supports retail destinations, providing brand and marketing services from digital to physical that really engage our visitors and communities, and ultimately bring the place to life.

The team

Our innovative, creative and strategic teams across the country bring experience and enthusiasm to all projects. We pride ourselves on our industry expertise and the breadth of services we provide for our clients across all channels. Our skills range from brand consultancy, strategy development, campaign creative and digital and physical delivery – including events and activations.

The London team consists of expert account handlers, designers, strategists plus social media and Place Activation (events) teams. We are a small but effective team of 12 marketers who really enjoy our work but who also socialise outside of office hours taking full advantage of all that London has to offer!

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The Role 

The way we shop has transformed in recent years, and the role of our high streets, city centres and shopping destinations has changed as a result. It is our job to ensure that the places we market not only keep up with the changing retail landscape, but set the trends for others to follow. We create engaging marketing and place activation programmes to ensure that our destinations offer a 360 experience over and above a traditional shopping trip. 

As a Project Manager you will be responsible for bringing our clients’ marketing needs to life, whether that’s a giant scaffold wrap, event graphics or a brochure for a property sale. You will manage each project from start to finish; from taking the client brief, working with both internal and external teams to deliver the project on time, and on budget. 

We are looking for candidates with self-motivation who are excited to get stuck in. You will need to have excellent accuracy and attention to detail. You will also need excellent communication skills and the ability to spin multiple plates!

Successful candidates will be able to both give and take direction working within a close-knit, busy team and also work effectively in silo.  We are looking for an innovative and hard-working professional who can get going from day one.

 

Key tasks

  • Your days will be jam-packed with stakeholder meetings, tracking and facilitating tasks and projects, scoping and planning new projects, and more
  • Shepherding projects from requirement / client brief through to deployment, identifying schedules, suppliers, budget estimations, and implementation plans in collaboration with your team
  • Coordinating internal and external resources to ensure that projects adhere to scope, schedule, and budget
  • Managing the creative process, to make sure assets are delivered on time in the right formats
  • Managing client amendments, proofing copy and artwork, checking formatting etc
  • Setting and tracking project milestones; managing unforeseen delays & realigning schedules and expectations as needed
  • Establishing and implementing project communication plans, and providing status updates to affected staff and stakeholders
  • Coordinating and facilitating communication across project teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and visibility
  • Agency relations support: Collaborating with external agencies to coordinate marketing efforts and ensuring alignment with company and market objectives & budgets
  • Gathering analytics ad hoc: Compile and deliver from internal resources marketing analytics reports to support market managers to support decision-making. This includes working with regional colleagues to request high level email, web, social campaign reports and coordinating information for internal performance newsletters.
  • Event support: Provide ad hoc support for marketing events, when needed, ensuring all creative asset and promotional activities are coordinated between agencies and on-site as needed

Skills and experience

  • The successful candidate will have a relevant degree / education, but most importantly, convey passion and enthusiasm & a can-do attitude
  • You will have 3+ years of project management experience in a marketing team
  • Experience as a project manager in a marketing agency is highly valued
  • Experience managing editorial print, hoardings, window graphics, POS, scaffold wraps – all useful but not essential 
  • Comfortable proofreading copy
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills are essential for this role

  • Professional and flexible project management skills, working individually as well as part of a team

  • The ability to think differently and apply ideas to a wide variety of situations

  • Excellent administration and organisational skills to manage budgets, spreadsheets and databases 
  • Ability to multitask, work in a fast-paced environment and have attention to detail

  • Impeccable time-management skills and the ability to work under pressure

  • Excellent problem-solving skills and diplomacy

  • Experience in G suite beneficial

Our offer

  • Work in a creative environment as part of growing and ambitious team of specialists

  • Ongoing training and career development

  • Quarterly bonus scheme

  • Private Health Care

  • 20 days annual holiday, increasing annually after two years (up to 25) plus our office closes between Christmas & New year 
  • Regular team socials 
  • Use of company Macbook
& iPhone
  • Flexible working policy


How to apply

To apply please email your CV and covering letter to careers@dsemotion.com

Start Date – Immediate

Salary – Dependent on experience