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News UK Creative Project Manager - 12 Month FTC in United Kingdom

Creative Project Manager - 12 Month FTC

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01 Dec 2024

Job Description

12 Month FTC (Mat Cover)

News UK & Ireland is a phenomenal company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a real passion for quality content and storytelling. Our brands include national titles – The Sunday Times (Ireland Edition) and The Irish Sun - as well as FM104, Q102, Cork’s 96 among other local FM radio and digital stations within Wireless Ireland, managed by urbanmedia.

STUDIO IRELAND is the strategic content agency who work across both News Ireland andurbanmedia. We create campaigns for clients and media agencies that engage and connect with our audiences. From brief to post campaign analysis, we deliver key brand messages by telling stories that entertain, excite and inspire, delivered across our platforms.

Your Role: The Creative Project Manager will be responsible for driving the successful execution and delivery of cross-platform campaigns. Our team is truly multidisciplined with expertise across print, video, radio, digital, events and social. We pride ourselves on our high level of client service and proactive approach, whilst upholding editorial values and creative integrity of the award-winning work we produce.

The Creative Project Manager will work on multiple campaigns and partnerships to plan, document, budget, communicate and troubleshoot at all levels and liaise with clients at every step of the project cycle. Withmultiple campaign deliverables and an influx of briefs for scoping, theCreativeProject Manager is responsible for ensuring vital information flows through to team and stakeholders. They are responsible for deliverables and timelines.

We are seeking an individual who is passionate about optimising operational tools and systems, has experience developing technical roadmaps, can drive large and complex media-related projects, and can lead discussions with cross-functional teams. Having some experience in the radio industry in Ireland would be an asset.

Day to day you will:

  • Works closely with Creative and Sales teams in Ireland to deliver the best cross-platform campaigns for clients

  • Awareness of all relevant News Ireland andurbanmedia(Wireless) brands, their platforms and distribution channels – how they work, what audience they reach, how best to use them

  • Responsibility for the day-to-day project meetings

  • Scopes client briefs and provides costs and scheduling feasibility in pitch responses

  • Define project scope, coordinate requirements, create project schedules, and ensure deadlines are met on multiple projects across all platforms

  • Manage and update pitch trackers sheets

  • Update finance documents for pipeline and revenue

  • Create presentations for quarterly board meetings

  • Build successful relationships and gain the respect and trust of clients & internal stakeholders

  • Ensure relationships with all contact points are effectively managed, and any issues are highlighted to the Creative Director

  • Working with budgets, financial documents (XL & Google Sheets)

What we are looking for from you:

We are seeking an individual who is passionate about optimising operational tools and systems, has experience developing technical roadmaps, can drive large and complex media-related projects, and can lead discussions with cross-functional teams across the company.

  • A level headed, entrepreneurial and spirited approach to the job

  • A team player who works under their own initiative

  • Highly organised and able to work across multiple projects at the same time

  • Calm and dependable under pressure, and able to think quickly and problem solve in a fast-paced environment.

  • A ‘can-do’ approach to working interdependently and with multiple teams.

  • Genuinely interested in producing the best cross-platform creative content and working with a creative team.

  • Sound diplomacy and negotiation

  • Act as a brand ambassador for News Ireland to external stakeholders and internal departments

Life at News

At News UK some of uswork flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity and inclusion , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks;Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting theWellbeingof our staff.

  • 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

  • A generous pension scheme with employer contributions

  • Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

  • Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require anyreasonable adjustmentsduring the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

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