Project Manager

Design Planner - Packaging
Location: Hybrid - Couple of days in office
Salary: DOE
Company: A leading packaging and branding design agency.
Role: Our client has an opportunity for a Project Manager / Design Planner to join their well-established fantastic team, performing a key role within one of their UK-based teams.
Based at our client’s head office, the successful candidate will work within the client’s busy design studio.
Responsible for looking after account and/or projects from initial concept to completion - through design process to production whilst ensuring an exceptional client service.
* Serves as a day-to-day contact
* Agree & manage critical paths timelines for each packaging project and ensure project milestones fall within the agreed time-line/deadlines which have been set, ensuring the project stays on track & highlighting risks
* Sense check and challenge critical path timings working collaborativey with the PM’s so Design is set up for success and aligned to overall project requirements
* Ensure design work is briefed in to the Design studio and work with the Design studio manager and lead Designer to ensure design requirements are met in line with critical path timings
* Work with other project management / planning roles / category to ensure all upcoming briefs and missing elements essential for design work are available and on time
* Participate in meetings with existing clients and internal teams
* Ensure high quality standards in all client deliverables
* Coordinate client-specific projects throughout the lifecycle
* Managing creative and technical projects from initial concept to completion, on time and budget
* Creating job briefs and booking in jobs
* Dealing with client queries and complaints whilst project managing ongoing projects
* On screen meetings
* Artwork approvals
Requirements:
* Packaging industry experience - FMCG experience preferred
* Proven account / project management within an agency / design or packaging manufacturers
* Technical knowledge of printing processes - print and packaging
* Preferably retail or brand experience
* Good understanding of design and artwork processes
* Adaptive roll out experience - preferred
* Team collaboration skills
* Ability to coach / mentor account execs
* Excellent organizational and time management skills
* Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written
Apply:
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