Project Manager - Brand Design, FMCG Packaging

Contract: 3 month freelance role starting ~27th July

Hybrid: Full time with 3 days in our Bishopsgate office, London

FutureBrand

We’re FutureBrand, the flagship branding agency within the multi-award-winning global advertising agency network Omnicom.

25 years young with a head full of big brand experience and a gaze fixed firmly on the future, our work over the last two decades has changed the brand landscape today. What we do next will change tomorrow. We’re based in some of the most exciting and vibrant cities on the planet, balancing global scale with cultural connection. That means we’re on the doorstep of many of the world’s biggest brands, and within reach of the very best talent around.

Together, we are a diverse brand, experience and design community who believe that brand is how a company’s people, products and services behave wherever and whenever they show up in the world. Our work focuses on measuring and maximizing brand behaviour by connecting corporate purpose with everyday lived experience.

It's through this work that we deliver our purpose: To transform the future of businesses by changing how their brands behave today. And because we believe strongly that the future our brands create must be a future for us all, our shared values - Progressive, Adaptable, Collaborative and Empowering - put difference and diversity at our core.

We're now looking for a Project Manager to join the team, a Design Agency professional who is looking for the opportunity to work on global design projects with the world's best known and most loved household brands.

Key responsibilities:

As a Project Manager at FutureBrand you’ll be responsible for managing major branding projects on behalf of an instantly recognisable global client in the FMCG F&B/Grocery sector. Specifically you will have the opportunity to:

Manage and coordinate the day-to-day running of multiple brand and packaging design projects for major global brands
Collaborate with stakeholders to review their objectives and project requirements and interpret into project plans and creative briefs.
Plan, cost and manage stand-alone projects in coordination with external suppliers.
Control project time plans, budgets, while coordinating and motivating the team with a positive solutions-based attitude to meet deadlines.
Adhere to strict processes and maintain project timetables, addressing or escalating risks.
Provide project management assistance to the Project Directors as directed, including: Client status reporting, Weekly and ad-hoc resourcing, Imagery and typeface licensing and tracking

Minimum requirements:

Previous project management experience leading branding projects (brand design not advertising) with a brand design agency or global business is essential
You can demonstrate advanced Project Management skills including numeracy, financial acumen, active listening, assertiveness, articulacy, and organisation.
Knowledge and experience of design, creative and production process.
Ability to understand and apply commercial and financial considerations, quickly grasp complex problems, and propose solutions to facilitate fast resolutions.

Nice to haves:

Being skilled with Float, Smartsheets and Screendragon is desirable, although not a requirement.

Equal Opportunities:

We believe that ideas get better when they are inherently diverse and shared in highly inclusive ways and we want to hear from those who think differently from us. We truly believe in the strength of diversity and the richness it can bring. By bringing different people together great things happen.

FutureBrand is an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

FutureBrand is a disability-confident committed employer and will guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets the minimum criteria for the role. Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications, we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme. If you have a disability, we want everyone to feel at ease when going through our recruitment process. We are working to make our website and processes more accessible, if you encounter any issues and would like this information in an alternative format, or if you need further support with your application, please contact us at FBHR@futurebrand.com for any adjustments you may need to perform at your best.

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