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    Project Manager - London, United Kingdom - United Entertainment Group

    United Entertainment Group
    United Entertainment Group London, United Kingdom

    5 hours ago

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    Our newly launched UEG Project Management team is passionate about finding smart ways to deliver great work. We sit at the center of our business, collaborating with best-in-class teams to ensure our "make famous" ideas deliver impact in our clients' real worlds. From consumer goods to fashion, retail, financial service, food and beverage, luxury, technology or healthcare – we are fanatics about integrated project management and enable our creative, strategy and account teams to deliver smart and brilliant programming for our clients.

    This is an exciting opportunity for a process-building, go-getter who wants to become a key part of a forward-thinking, integrated team. This role will operate out of UEG's London office, with other PM team members currently sitting in the US. We want passion and excitement. We want someone who is unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge the norm and is eager to be the best in the business. Our Director, Project Management will have a deep experience in building and evangelizing integrated project management teams, and will be recognized as a go-to for high priority program definition, delivery best practices, and PM team leadership.

    About Your Day-to-Day:

    This role is responsible for providing structure and overall delivery vision on projects and for overseeing a client portfolio consisting of multiple work streams and disciplines, with embedded leadership across our EMEA teams. Serving as the overall program management lead on accounts, they oversee a team of project managers that lead schedules, deliverables, priorities and teams towards flawless execution. We are seeking a strategic core team leader and counselor to Account and Specialty leads in program management, project delivery approach and financial health.

    • Lead EMEA project management, collaborating cross functionally with our account, practice, finance and operations teams
    • Oversee wholistic EMEA workflow with a mix of individual client and portfolio management
    • Own the intake of new work and the evaluation of new briefs, devising delivery approaches for each assignment drawing on PM best practices
    • Own and manage project definition in scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams, producing indicative pricing and detailed budgets that match a description of deliverables and actual work effort.
    • Champion project management tools and best practices that standardize how to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation.
    • Independently own the delivery of large, complex programs independently and with support from more junior project managers.
    • Serve as an escalation point to manage risks and provides solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively looking around corners, controlling project scope and the change control process, and collaborating with leads to strategically identify and implement win-win solutions.
    • Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure clients are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate and SOWs are approved.
    • Drive client discussions related to project plans, financial health, UEG capabilities and approach to delivery.
    • Partner with specialty leads to forecast current and future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work.
    • Establish workflow and best practices on integrated businesses that enable teams to efficiently deliver against program goals.
    • Ensure quality checks and consistency of all outputs across all project deliverables
    • Ensure flexibility in approaches to fit client, creative, and business needs, while managing change and the exploration of various budget/time scenarios to elevate work.
    • Contribute to project operations and "the work behind the work" – prioritizing of new project opportunities establishing flexible frameworks and best practices with new teams and providing input on PM team assignments.
    • Balance a sense of urgency with a calm and confident leadership at all times.
    Basic Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field
    • At least 10 years of project management experience in an integrated marketing agency or related industry
    Preferred Qualifications:
    • Mastery of large, complex project delivery on integrated programs, from planning through execution
    • Demonstrated ability to motivate teams, foster career development and oversee performance of junior team members
    • Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and/or Smartsheet (or other similar project management tool) is required.
    About You:
    • A self-reliant multi-tasker, with the ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment
    • A strategic mindset, with a knack for critical thinking and creative, head-on problem solving
    • A bias for action and the unshakeable ability to confidently lead projects and teams through ambiguity
    • A people leader with a "get things done" and positive mentality
    • A passion for the art and the science of creative problem solving and operational excellence
    • A strong and fearless communicator, with the ability to navigate conflict resolution and influence teams to a desired end goal
    • A positive role model for fostering individual career development and an inclusive team culture

    United Entertainment Group is a global entertainment, sports and lifestyle marketing agency and part of the DJE Holdings network. UEG creates breakthrough marketing with the people, properties and platforms that shape culture, and has been recognized with industry awards including Cannes Lions, Clios, OneShow, Sabre Awards, Tellys, and more. UEG, founded in 2007, is headquartered in New York with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, London, Hamburg and Tokyo and works with FORTUNE 500 companies, celebrities, athletes and leading media properties.

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