Senior Project Manager
Billion Dollar Boy Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Advertising Services · 201-500 employees
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About the role
The Senior Project Manager leads the end-to-end delivery of social-first and creator marketing campaigns by establishing project governance and actionable plans. They are responsible for managing cross-functional collaboration, project financials, and mitigating risks to ensure operational excellence.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 4-7 years of project management experience within a marketing or creative agency environment. Proven experience in leading complex, cross-functional projects and a strong understanding of project management principles are essential.
Full description
ROLE PURPOSE
At Billion Dollar Boy, the Senior Project Manager leads the end-to-end delivery of social-first, creator marketing campaigns - partnering across Client Services, Strategy, Creative, and other cross-functional teams. They ensure projects are planned strategically and executed seamlessly.
As the operational lead on their projects, they will establish the project approach, align stakeholders, proactively manage risk and oversee resources and budgets - creating the structure and environment to enable teams to do their best work. They anticipate challenges, remove blockers, and drive informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
They champion creativity and operational excellence and lead with positivity and accountability, fostering a happy, highly motivated team environment.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Leadership
- Lead end-to-end delivery of social-first and creator marketing campaigns.
- Establish project governance, delivery approaches, and actionable project plans.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration, alignment, and accountability.
- Anticipate delivery risks and implement timely mitigation plans.
Project Planning & Delivery
- Leads project kick-offs, timelines, milestones, and resource planning.
- Helps define project scopes against budgets and delivery plans
- Facilitate reviews, feasibility checks, approvals, and key decision points throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage project workflows and task allocation, ensuring resources are effectively planned, utilised and delivery remains on track
- Guide project execution, ensuring deliverables meet quality expectations and client objectives.
- Anticipate project risks and blockers, implementing timely solutions to maintain momentum
- Monitor project performance and recommend optimisations and builds
Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders, team members, clients and external partners.
- Provide clear communication on project status, risks, timelines, and recommendations.
- Manage expectations while balancing client needs, creative ambition, and operational priorities.
- Facilitate transparent communication across departments, ensuring information flows effectively and surfaced early.
Operational Excellence
- Champion project management standards, governance, and best practices.
- Identify process improvements to drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
- Lead retrospectives to capture learnings and translate insights into process improvements.
Financial Management
- Oversee project financials, including budgets, burn rates, forecasting, and reconciliations.
- Build and manage scopes, change requests, and commercial impacts throughout delivery.
Team Collaboration
- Foster an accountable and collaborative team culture.
- Support onboarding and capability building across teams.
- Build trust and strong partnerships across departments.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- 4-7 years of project management experience within a marketing, creative, social or integrated agency environment. Experience delivering some creator or social-first marketing campaigns is essential.
- Proven experience leading medium to complex, cross-functional projects from initiation through delivery, managing multiple workstreams and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of project management principles, including scope management, budgeting, resource planning and risk management
- Strong financial acumen and negotiation skills
- Demonstrate ability to build trusted relationships, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment
- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- An AI enthusiast, comfortable using relevant AI tools in creative processes, recognising risks, and keeping usage safe.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools, including Google Workspace, Smartsheet, Float, Slack and similar platforms.
About Billion Dollar Boy
Billion Dollar Boy is an award-winning social agency with Creator Instinct®. We’re here to transform how brands grow in a creator world, inspiring them with sharper strategy and creative work designed for the places where people actually are.
Powered by Creator Instinct®, we’ve captured what great creators do naturally & systematically turn cultural energy into commercial impact through structured marketing systems that deliver outcomes.
Since 2014, BDB has partnered with iconic brands, including Heineken, Nike, Unilever, PepsiCo, and L’Oréal. Our agency & our work has been recognised by Cannes Lions, Adweek, AdAge, Campaign, The Drum, Webby, Shorty, and The Global Influencer Marketing Awards. We’re enabled by our award winning proprietary technology Companion. Which provides us with better intelligence, greater precision, and helps us prove outcomes.
And FiveTwoNine which keeps us connected to qualitative cultural intelligence via a global network of creators. Allowing brands and talent to effectively co-create brand messaging, campaigns, products, and more.
Our Culture
We’re a social-first, creator-led agency and that energy runs through everything we do. It’s fast-paced, collaborative and always evolving.
You’ll be surrounded by people who care deeply about the work, challenge each other to make it better, and aren’t afraid to think differently.
We work hard, support each other, and genuinely enjoy being together - whether that’s through team moments, creative sessions, or celebrating the wins along the way.
Our Values
- Be Fair, Be Transparent
- Intentional Inclusivity
- Champion Curiosity
- Own It
- Work for Tomorrow
- Kindness Over Ego
Equal Opportunities
We encourage employees to be open and confident and appreciate that every member of the team makes a vital difference.
Billion Dollar Boy embraces equality, diversity and inclusion and will seek to promote these benefits in all of our business activities.
When recruiting new employees or when affording our current employees with opportunities for promotion, it means that we will:
- Recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their background and make best use of their talents;
- Not discriminate unlawfully against any person;
- Select the best person for the job in terms of qualifications and abilities.
- This sets out our approach to equal opportunities and the avoidance of discrimination at work.
- A part of what we offer at BDB is a considerate suite of competitive benefits, which will be discussed with you throughout the interview process
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
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