Job Description
We are seeking a passionate Creative Project Manager to join Yoke in our new studio in Frome. If you want to join us on our mission and use your skills for good, then please read on.
We’re a brand and design studio that helps people and planet. Always have and always will. Crafting brand identities, communicating impact, making information mean more, and sharing stories to inspire positive change.
We are growing our team at Yoke and are looking for a passionate and motivated Project manager to join us on our mission. Everything we do has one goal, to make our world a better place. We are a small team and you will be an integral part of our growth.
You will be joining our one other Project Manager in our Client Services team, led by our Senior Account Manager. You will be a confident and organised multitasker, working across multiple projects at a time on an array of different disciplines, to plan, manage and deliver profitable, efficient and fun projects for Yoke and for our clients.
Experience
Ideally 3+ years experience in delivering projects of this nature in an agency setting
Delivering creative projects on time, on budget and independently
Bonus experience
- Worked with clients in the climate/sustainability/nature sector
- Confident with sustainability terminology (we can support learning in this area)
- Using Clickup as a project management tool
- Experience and confidence in using Excel / oogle sheets
- Using Harvest as time tracking
- Confident writing
- Background in sustainability
Location
We have two offices – one in Frome and the other in Spike Island, Bristol.
We expect everyone to be in the office at least twice a week – we’re aiming to have set days, but this is tbc. You are welcome to come into either office more than two days a week, most of us spend more time in the Bristol office.
Required skills
- A passionate believer that design communications can make the world a better place
- A clear understanding of the creative process around branding, design and animation
- Willing to muck in, be flexible and get involved, this won’t be your average ‘big agency’environment
- A strong communicator and independent thinker. Whilst our Senior Account Manager will support you, you will need to use your initiative to work independently
- You are happy to work closely with an intimate team
- Confidence to lead meetings both internally and with clients with exceptional active listening skills
- An eye for detail, help us keep exceedingly high standards
- Highly organised to keep projects running efficiently using our project management platform
- Able to successfully multitask to manage numerous different projects simultaneously
- Meticulous planner with the ability to adapt and change with differing and fast paced projects
- A proactive thinker who questions uncertainty to ensure clarity
- Ability to see beyond a project, understanding wider impact and purpose
- Able to manage and prioritise a varying workload
- Self awareness to recognise and vocalise your own strengths and weaknesses
What will you be working on?
You will be planning, managing and leading a range of projects falling into 3 main areas, Branding, Design and Animation, so an experience of running these types of projects is a must.
Core tasks
Write clear & relevant documents:
- Ability to adapt creative brief templates successfully for the purposes of your project – ensuring clarity & relevance
- Ability to think beyond the immediate need and see the full scope of
information the team require to deliver successful creative - Ability to write succinctly with clarity for internal and external comms
- Project scoping – writing clear and accurate Project Initiation Documents
- Plan & write clear agendas, follow up calls, status docs etc.
Managing projects from start to end:
- We have a robust process and platforms to support the successful
management of projects. We will teach you the ‘Yoke way’ (we use Harvest, Click-up & Xero), but with the ability to be agile (have the understanding that not everything fits one size) - We expect you to have an understanding of generic project processes and
understanding of the importance and impact of each stage of a project - Risk mitigation and management
- Communicating with clients on a daily basis and leading project calls
- Internal project calls and management (at times this may also include
freelance management) - Sense checking and proofreading work before it goes to clients
Client communication:
- Build trusting relationships with clients
- Engage in valuable and regular client communications
- Successfully manage clients through collaborative projects
- Act as a filter from client to studio to ensure all information passed internally is valuable, clear and relevant
Project resource management:
- Understanding different types of resource and when certain skills are required
- Understanding the order of project activities to build project gantt charts
- Ability to manage priorities of tasks and project to support in creating the
studio resource plan (the SAM manages this) - Planning out project timelines against our internal resource plan and
reporting this accurately to the SAM
Project finance:
- Project budget management
- Project invoicing
- Reporting project finance to SAM
- Ability to connect to the commercially driven monthly revenue targets
Benefits
- Salary from £26-35k depending on experience
- We appreciate the importance of work-life balance and that flexibility is key to this. We offer flexi working hours to help you manage life outside of work
- Creative and collaborative studio space
- Hybrid-working – 2 days a week in the office minimum is desired
- Professional training budget
- Holiday – 31 days a year (inc bank holidays)
- Bonus Christmas holiday – Studio closure (2024 closure 23rd – 27th Dec 2024