AddressProject Manager (12 month FTC, mid-May 2024) - up to £30,000 FTE
Company Description
Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music.
We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content – in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Your Home, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus.
We also have an award-winning content agency that works with major charities, brands and membership organisations to help them tell their stories and engage audiences better – in print, video, and online.
Position
As a Project Manager for Client Services, the commercial creative team within Our Media, you will be responsible for managing integrated advertising campaigns and commercial content solutions across multiple platforms, disciplines and Our Media properties from conception to completion, whilst keeping both clients and the creatives happy.
Working with the rest of the Client Services team, as well as relevant editorial and production teams across a variety of brands, you will ensure that all campaigns are delivered within contracted time frames and agreed budgets, whilst helping to develop and uphold the positive reputation of the Client Services team.
This is a 12-month fixed term contract and maternity cover, starting early May 2024. This is advertised as a full time position, but we are willing to consider a 4 day week (28 hours) with an experienced candidate.
For a full list of responsibilities, please see the job description.
Requirements
Essential:
- Previous project management experience
- A proven track record of delivering projects to time and budget
- Strong time management skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and grammatical accuracy
- Good attention to detail
- Proactive problem solver
- A team player with a genuine interest in the advertising industry
Desirable
- Experience of managing projects in a publishing environment
- Good command of project management processes and methodologies across creative and commercial disciplines.
- Confident leader, comfortable communicating with multiple stakeholders (internal and external)
Other information
We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles.
We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at recruitment@ourmedia.co.uk.
Flexible and hybrid working
We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office.
Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year.
We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.
Company benefits include
- Pension contribution matched to 5%
- Season ticket loan
- Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
- Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
- Social committee, regular in-house learning events
- 4x life assurance
Our values
We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.
We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030.
To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:
- Be kind
- Always curious
- Be the best we can be
Apply today through our careers page to take the next step in your career with Our Media.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Expected hours: 28 – 35 per week
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol, BS1 4ST
Expected start date: 13/05/2024
