A Practice for Everyday Life
Project Manager
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We are looking for a Project Manager to join our team in east London. Working closely with the studio team and our clients, you will manage the day-to-day delivery of multiple projects, keeping schedules, budgets and communication on track.
This is a full-time position (37.5 hours, 5 days per week) based in person at our studio. You should have at least 4 years’ experience managing projects within a design, branding or creative studio, and enjoy working collaboratively.
About Us
A Practice for Everyday Life is a creative direction, design and type studio founded in 2003. Collaborating with cultural institutions, global brands and individuals, we create meaningful, original design through research and consultancy. We work across brand identities, campaigns, digital, editorial design and custom type.
Working at APFEL
- Flexible daily working hours around our core working hours.
- An off-site cultural outing bi-monthly — visiting a gallery, house or paid exhibition together.
- Regular studio socials, including opportunities to attend private openings and events at galleries and museums.
- Catered team lunches once a month.
- Increased holiday allowance after 3 years at APFEL.
- Studio closure between Christmas and New Year.
- Workplace pension scheme.
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About the Role
- Manage the day-to-day delivery of multiple projects, ensuring work stays on brief, on time and on budget.
- Act as a key day-to-day contact for clients, building strong relationships and keeping communication, decisions and actions clear.
- Shape and maintain project scopes and schedules, managing feedback, changes and additional requests as projects progress.
- Coordinate projects across the design team, managing resourcing requirements and identifying scheduling or resource issues early.
- Manage relevant project budgets, creative time, external costs and additional scope in dialogue with Directors.
- Coordinate production schedules, suppliers and specialist partners with the design team, where required.
- Support Directors with project information for new proposals, and help ensure projects are properly completed and documented.
Your Experience & Skills
- At least 4 years’ experience managing projects within a design, branding or creative studio, or equivalent.
- Experience managing multiple creative projects at the same time, balancing schedules, resourcing and feedback.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence managing clients and building strong relationships.
- Highly organised and proactive, with strong time-management skills and the ability to manage changing priorities across projects.
- Able to anticipate risks and resourcing issues, solve day-to-day problems independently and recognise when issues should be escalated.
- Collaborative and sensitive to the way creative teams work.
- Confident using Excel and/or Google Sheets, project-management tools and time-management systems.
- Good understanding of creative production processes across print, digital and web.
- A strong interest in contemporary design, typography, art and culture.
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For further details and information on how to apply, see our studio website: https://apracticeforeverydaylife.com/project-manager
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