Creative Outdoor Project Manager (12-Month FTC)

Creative Outdoor Project Manager (12-Month FTC)

Your Role: Creative Outdoor Project Manager
 

As a Creative Project Manager you’ll sit at the heart of our creative output the connector between ideas, people and execution. You’ll be the first point of contact for briefs coming into the team, helping shape them from early thinking through to delivery of standout creative work. You will be working with the Creative team and to the wider Commercial Team, its advertisers and agency partners supporting them to unlock ideas, elevate briefs and deliver bold innovative and creative concepts.

You’ll own the end to end project management of creativity and innovation-led campaigns from initial briefing and budgeting, brainstorming, ideation, visualisation and production, right through to final delivery and post campaign wrap up. Along the way, you’ll help design smarter ways of working building and refine processes to help make creativity and innovation flow better, faster and further.

As a Creative Outdoor Project Manager at Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

Ideas

• Lead the triage and response of incoming creative briefs assessing clarity, ambition and feasibility, asking the right questions upfront, and shaping briefs so they’re ready to unlock strong creative thinking and efficient delivery.
• Manage brief response: shaping scope, steering timelines, aligning stakeholders and guiding ideas through visualisation and pitching.
• Support the Creative Outdoor team and wider Commercial stakeholders with organised, responsive and high quality creative brief responses (mood boards and presentation materials)
• Maintain quality control checks across deliverables (decks, mock-ups, narrative) to support high standards.

• Maintain quality control checks across deliverables (decks, mock-ups, narrative) to support high standards.
• Support meeting and workshop logistics, including scheduling, agendas/actions, and follow-up notes.
• Assist team members with presentations for creative sessions/workshops using PPT and Keynote.
• Be a first line of excellent customer service: responsive communication, clear documentation and organised delivery.
• Raise POs, process invoices, and support project reporting and admin with accuracy and timeliness.

• Enable innovation pilots and new propositions by coordinating stakeholders, readiness, timelines, suppliers and operational delivery planning.
• Capture learning from pilots and help convert repeatable success into toolkits/processes (productisation and market readiness).
• Build and maintain a strong network of production partners and specialist suppliers to expand the team’s capabilities.
• Ensure stakeholder communication of NPDs is proactive, clear and consistent across Creative Outdoor and the wider Commercial team.

• Be an ambassador for the team’s delivery excellence and professionalism, raising confidence within the commercial team, and across our external stakeholders to position Global Creative Outdoor as the best-in-class partner.
• Champion creativity internally and externally by leveraging the Creative Partnerships already established
• Identify operational improvements that unlock more creative impact and/or commercial value.
• Support awards readiness through process: ensuring projects are documented, assets captured and timelines managed to support submissions.

• Maintain team trackers/spreadsheets (revenue trackers, forecasting inputs, project pipeline) with accuracy.
• Support quoting and budget tracking processes as directed, ensuring information is up to date and consistent.
• Book meeting rooms, refreshments and hospitality for clients/guests as required.
• Apply feedback, training and coaching to improve delivery craft and how the team works.

What you'll love about this role

Think Big: No one day will be the same – taking a random observation and making it happen

Own It: Relationship building. Building and maintaining excellent relationships with key Creative Agency clients, proactively identifying opportunities to deliver innovative and award winning campaigns

Keep it Simple: Keep things moving and people in the loop by keeping the tracker tidy with clear next steps, and friendly updates when things change.

Better Together: Opportunity to be part of developing new products to market from ideation to execution and implementation

What Success Looks Like
In the first few months, you'll have:

• Got to grips with the job and be running your own projects from ideation to delivery.
• Developed a creative and innovative approach that is solution focused
• Helped develop the new process of being the first point of contact for all incoming briefs.
• To be aware and keep up to date with the market and competitor media landscape to challenge the status quo and drive market leading innovation and Global revenue growth.
• Supported in identifying new opportunities to be further developed into creative and innovative solutions
• Understand outdoor dynamic capabilities and the technology that can power new ideas and innovative campaigns
• Owned our team culture, fun, activities & how we work well and stay connected with part remote working.
• Completely understand our revenue, including reporting, booking, tracking and sharing our success.
• Collaborate with wider Outdoor Commercial Team & decided on exciting projects to work on outside of our day to day that you are passionate about.

What You'll Need

The ideal candidate will be proactive, organised and comfortable juggling multiple moving parts:

• Creative thinker with a practical, solution-focused mindset
• Ability to balance several projects at once and manage deadlines reliably
• Drive, resilience, flexibility and pride in high-quality delivery
• Meticulous attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Strong presentation skills able to both build presentations and deliver them to our client and agency partners
• Good knowledge of the UK advertising marketplace and a general understanding of creative/production workflows
• Strong commercial and operational acumen, with advanced proficiency in Excel and Keynote/PowerPoint
• Quick learner; confident adapting in a fast-paced environment
• Confident communicator with a customer-focused approach
• Personal integrity, self-awareness, and a collaborative, straight-talking style