Senior Project Manager

INTRODUCTION

JOB PURPOSE

The purpose of the Senior Manager is to lead delivery of projects within a season, working closely with Brand Marketing and the Content Editor to forward plan and agree on the right delivery approach for interlinked projects, ensuring that creative teams are clearly briefed.

This role will help ensure the best possible outcome for projects both strategically and creatively, by ensuring each phase is handled to best affect, with timings and milestones suitably protected at each stage of the process.

Stakeholder management is a key part of this role - both in bringing together key department wide decision making for leadership, as well as raising risks and addressing blockers effectively.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will own the holistic delivery of global marketing projects across a season - being responsible for forward planning all projects within a season, and ensuring the right setup and preparation is done in order to kick off a season and projects within suitable timeframes and involvement from stakeholders.
• You will deliver some projects within the season, with a Project Manager working into you owning delivery of other projects, to ensure the overall season is on track and creative and marketing teams are linked across projects within the season.
• As one of 2 Senior Managers working across the marketing calendar, you will play an active role in identifying areas of process improvement and quickly raising and addressing issues if optimal ways of working across the department are not upheld. The Operations function within the team and Director of PM & Operations will partner with you to deliver changes to process.
• With the other Senior Manager, you be responsible for partnering to ensure consistent ways of working across the Project Management team.
• You will line manage 1 Project Manager and offer them leadership and development.
• You will collaborate closely with the strategy team to drive projects in an inspiring and collaborative way, ensuring teams are progressing as needed in each area.
• You will be responsible for capturing the deliverables and budget across all areas of your project, in order to understand and bring together teams and decision making according to the project scope.
• With your role spanning department wide, you will have the ability to apply your skills across disciplines, while operating at a level that promotes the accountability on others to progress work autonomously - allowing you to maintain full sight of the of work going on across the breadth of your project.
• You will establish, communicate and drive project milestones ensuring that all teams are clear on what is expected of them, when - and progressing as required.
• You will book the creative resource required to deliver the core creative concept for projects across Content, Experience Design, Graphic Design and Music. You will connect wider creative and marketing teams to collaborate and align on how a concept comes to life across social, owned channels, bought media and PR.
• With the concept and marketing plan agreed - you will handover to specialist Producers and Post Producers in Content, Events and Print to deliver the creative; with them updating you of any issues that impact the wider project.
• You will understand the delivery dependencies across owned platforms, bought media, PR and social to ensure that all teams receive core creative that meets the brief and is delivered at the right time - for marketing managers to execute across our global channels.
• You will work to protect the creative teams time and keep individuals focused, as well as being able to confidently present creative thinking in wider business meetings.
• You will drive decision making with teams and senior leadership, to move initiatives forwards in a productive way. You will confidently identify and address issues and risks, with the ability to find solutions to challenging situations - escalating as required.

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES / MEASURES OF SUCCESS

• Guardian of consistent ways of working across the Project Management team
• Ability to identify and raise issues across the department and proactively find solutions
• Teams clearly informed of seasonal milestones
• Active and open minded in establishing new ways of working
• Stakeholders feeling informed and led by you
• Teams will respect the direction you give and deliver upon your requests
• Timings protected at each stage of the project
• Productive cross functional collaboration
• Effective communication
• Ensuring good use of Project Management tool Asana, with your projects kept up to date

PERSONAL PROFILE

• At least 8 years experience working in creative delivery roles across a variety of creative disciplines, including experience working within the fashion industry
• Ability to identify efficiencies in process and ensure optimal ways of working
• Excellent time management and ability to use your time where it adds most value
• Excellent at interrogating strategic briefs, rationalising complex information, providing clarity on dependencies to teams
• Clearly facilitating decision making across a broad range of senior stakeholders
• Have the sensibilities of a creative producer and thus be a trusted partner to creative teams.
• Hold first class interpersonal skills - especially meeting management, facilitation, presentations and written communications.
• Accountable for delivery of projects on time and on budget by leveraging multiple skill sets, so must be able to understand the needs of each team, and balance these to ensure delivery is running effectively. 
 

• Pro-active and capable of driving the project forwards in a positive way - with a hunger for inspiring change and operational improvement.
• Ability to form trusted relationships with stakeholders

FOOTER

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.

Posting Notes: United Kingdom || Not Applicable || London || Creative Media || Creative Media || n/a ||