Senior Project Manager/Producer

Why you should join us…

Woo is a first-of-its-kind, feelgood media platform and marketplace, on a mission to turn generation anxious into generation zen. Brought to you by ITV, we make wellness discoverable, aspirational and culturally relevant - through the lens of entertainment, products and storytelling.

We engage our audience with their passion points - music, fashion, activism and culture - all through a wellness lens. We take unconventional practices that are designed to improve the human experience, align them with cultural icons and deliver them in a way that feels desirable and relatable. Documentaries, reality series, endorphin-releasing videos, audio and beyond.

The content proposition is matched with a marketplace of curated consumer products designed to make you feel good, across categories such as apparel, supplements, homeware, tech and beauty. Additionally our creative agency works to connect consumer brands to our audience through innovative and inspiring programs.

This role entails…

The Woo Agency team connects consumer brands into the Woo ecosystem by building integrated campaigns incorporating creative, editorial, design, production and marketplace integration. From Woo’s launch in April 2022, we are establishing a number of client partners and are looking for an experienced project manager to deliver the end-to-end programs. You will work alongside our commercial team, and in partnership with all creative and production departments plus a wide range of suppliers to ensure successful planning, pricing, pitching and timely delivery of projects to clients.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring we deliver best-in-class campaigns out of the gates
• Oversee planning of all new brand projects, including budget and timeline management
• Oversee execution of all new brand projects in partnership with internal departments, including but not limited to content production, editorial output, marketing, event management and marketplace integrations
• Lead the set-up of project management tools and processes
• Lead internal project meetings, set agenda, follow up on action items to meet project deadlines
• Manage internal trafficking of creative through the pitching, planning and production process from inception to final client sign off
• Develop production timelines and communicate to clients ensuring agreement and sign off
• Communicate production schedules to internal creative teams, updating where appropriate when changes occur
• Manage costs during production through regular reporting from project team and updating of budget
• Pre-empt issues as they arise and deal with them effectively, ensuring minimal impact on the client relationship
• Establish strong relationships with clients, to encourage trust and loyalty
• Attend shoots and all production activity, and client update meetings, preparing relevant documentation and reports
• Manage creation of project reports and case studies
• Archive all project budgets, contracts and assets
• Reconcile project budget and report on financials to senior stakeholders.
• Attend project close / debrief meeting

To be considered for this opportunity you will need to demonstrate the following skills:

Minimum role criteria:

• Significant experience in a similar role within a creative environment
• Clear understanding of the brand and media agency world
• Experience managing projects spanning formats including print, digital, social, photography, editorial, film and events
• Experience and skill at managing multiple commercial projects generating SOW, budgets, Gantt charts, contracts and SLAs concurrently
• Ability to create decks to with precision and attention to detail

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people and as a Disability Confident Leader if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee you’ll get to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

The Key role criteria is as follows:

• Organised, reliable and time conscious, solution-focused, proactive, problem solver
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• An existing database of current and relevant mid-high level contacts within brands and agencies across the UK
• Clear presenting style with excellent verbal communication skills
• Proficient across MAC OSX, google suite, keynote, slack
• Highly organised, solutions-driven and able to work within (and manage teams within) tight deadlines
• A creative, strategic thinker
• Passionate about wellness, youth culture and media

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application & selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. So we encourage you to get in touch with us if you require anything via the talkingcareers email at ITVjobs site.

Find out more about our benefits via the 'Why join us' page on the ITVjobs site.

We want to be the most flexible employer in Media. We offer Smart working and we will support you and provide you the right environment and work/ life balance.

We reach millions of people everyday, that’s why having diverse talents and being an organisation where colleagues feel included is crucial to us. We have various networks who celebrate and support our colleagues. We try to embed an inclusive mindset in everything we do.

* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.