Project Manager

About you:

• 3-5 years’ experience in project management or account operations within an agency environment.
• Experience coordinating international teams across time zones and managing competing deadlines.
• Proven experience working on football campaigns or accounts is essential, with experience working in women’s football a bonus.
• Fluent business-level English, with clear written and verbal communication.
• A practical understanding of project planning, workflows and delivery processes.
• Commercial understanding, including basic budgeting, cost tracking and the impact of scope changes.
• Experience improving processes and keeping project, resource and financial information accurate.
• Ability to turn complex or ambiguous briefs into clear plans, actions and responsibilities.
• A collaborative approach and experience coordinating cross-functional teams across agency disciplines.
• Calm under pressure, with the confidence to ask questions, flag risks and challenge constructively while keeping work moving.
• An interest in sport, entertainment and culture, and the role they play in connecting brands with audiences.

Desirable:

• Relevant project management training or qualifications, such as PRINCE2 Agile or Scrum.
• Experience supporting sports accounts, live sporting calendars or multi-market social content delivery.
• Experience or strong background in women's football

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Coordinate day-to-day operations across the global account, working with the central team, market leads and agency departments to keep work moving from brief to billing.
• Maintain timelines, schedules and workback plans for always-on activity and individual campaigns, coordinating briefs, feedback, approvals and delivery.
• Provide regular progress updates, keeping delivery status, upcoming deadlines and actions clear to the central team.
• Lead daily team stand-ups to review priorities, progress, blockers and resource needs.
• Coordinate resource allocation and freelancer bookings with the Resource Manager and relevant team leads across editorial, creative, motion, design and strategy.
• Track project hours and agreed deliverables against statements of work, flagging scope changes and additional costs to the Account Director for review and approval.
• Support simple budgeting, cost tracking and finance reconciliation, working with the Account Director, Client Services Director and finance team to keep forecasts aligned with work delivered.
• Coordinate delivery of recurring account commitments, including regular delivery updates, Data of the Day (DoD), monthly business reviews (MBRs) and content plans.
• Maintain account calendars and rotas, and support accurate project and resource information in our internal systems.
• Coordinate travel logistics, bookings and costings, and manage team access to software and accounts.
• Identify delivery risks and resource gaps early, agree on solutions and priorities with the wider central team, and escalate decisions when needed.
• Improve ways of working, keeping briefs, processes and templates consistent and sharing effective practices across markets.
• Build strong working relationships with central and market teams, providing a reliable point of coordination for delivery.