Project Manager

Department: Delivery

Location: London

Contact type: 12-Month FTC

Full Time/Part time: Full Time

Reporting into: Consulting Operations Lead

About Ogilvy:

Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Molson Coors (owner of Madrí beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.

In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year.

The Role:

This is an ideal role for someone developing their project management career and looking to build on their experience within a creative agency environment. As Project Manager, you will support the delivery of standalone and smaller integrated projects, helping to coordinate activity from client brief through to final asset handover.

Working closely with the Ops Lead and wider project team, you will help keep projects organised, moving and well communicated. You will support project planning, timelines, meetings, documentation, resource and production coordination, while building confidence in agency processes, project tools, commercial tracking and creative delivery.

You will be someone who is highly organised, curious, collaborative and comfortable asking questions. You will bring strong attention to detail, a positive attitude and a willingness to learn how great creative work is delivered across teams, whilst keeping on top of all the necessary administrative financial tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the Project Coordinator – Support the day-to-day delivery of standalone and smaller integrated projects, helping to keep timings, actions, documentation and deliverables on track.

• Be the Organised Planner – Help set up project plans, updates key internal project documents, ensuring information is clear, accurate and easy for the team to follow.

• Be the Seamless Integrator – Work with creative, strategy, client service, production, technical and operations teams to coordinate project activity and support smooth collaboration across disciplines.

• Be the Commercial Support – Support budget tracking, project admin and financial processes (via Workday and client systems) building your understanding of commercial delivery with guidance from the Ops Lead.

• Be the Early Risk Spotter – Help identify potential timing, resource, finance or delivery risks early and escalate them appropriately so the team can agree solutions.

• Be the Quality and Process Champion – Maintain high standards across project documentation, status reports and deliverables, developing confidence with agency tools, processes and platforms.

• Be the Project Advocate – Help represent the needs of the project within the agency, ensuring actions, blockers and requirements are clearly communicated to the right people.

• Be the Creative Problem-Solver – Support the team in finding practical solutions to challenges while helping projects stay on track and maintaining a focus on creative quality.

• Be Ready to Embrace AI – Use AI tools, including WPP Open, to support efficiency, summarise information, consolidate feedback and improve everyday ways of working.

• Be Open to Change – Stay curious, adaptable and willing to engage with new ways of working as the agency and wider industry continue to evolve.

Key Skills:

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities.

• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high standards across project documentation and deliverables.

• Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to work well with different teams and stakeholders.

• Some experience in project coordination, operations, client service, marketing, creative delivery or a similar environment would be helpful, but agency experience is not essential.

• An interest in creative work and curiosity about how ideas move from brief through to delivery.

• Willingness to learn project management processes, tools, platforms and agency ways of working.

• A proactive, solution-focused mindset, with confidence to ask questions, flag issues and escalate when support is needed.

• Comfortable working with change and ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.

• Interest in using AI tools, including WPP Open, to support efficiency, summarise information and improve ways of working.

• Collaborative working style, with a positive attitude and willingness to support the wider team.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day 

• Bupa Healthcare

• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave

• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm

• A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure

• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year 

• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme

• Life Assurance

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.

We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.