Iris London
Senior Project Manager
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Senior Project Manager: FTC contract
About Us
Iris is a global integrated agency driven by one simple philosophy: Participate or Perish. We create ideas that earn attention and inspire people to interact with brands in meaningful ways. Working with some of the world’s most ambitious brands, we combine strategy, creativity, technology, and media to deliver impactful campaigns.
Overview
Join Iris as a Senior Integrated Project Manager stepping into a pivotal role within the Iris delivery team, shaping how we execute a huge array of projects and campaigns for high-profile B2C and B2B clients across a diverse range of sectors, while working alongside passionate, multi-disciplinary talent across all areas of the business from strategy to creative to our in-house team of makers, Wild Boar Studios.
Alongside the Client/Business Lead and where relevant Lead Producer, you will be expected to lead on scoping, ways of working, and delivering excellence across a portfolio of clients. You’ll act as the red thread across all briefs for those clients, ensuring fees for projects are properly priced, the process is tightly managed, and that timings and budgets are met to keep the project on time and on budget.
You will need to bring rigorous commercial acumen and operational discipline to every project, while also exploring innovation, including AI-driven tools, to drive smarter, faster, and better outputs.
You’ll also be part of a vibrant culture, contributing to both the growth of your client portfolio and the broader success of Iris.
Responsibilities
- Working with the Client/Business Lead to ensure client work is accurately scoped to reflect the effort involved and the value being delivered.
- Managing work through the system with rigour and clarity – setting clear expectations around timings and outputs, proactively identifying risks, and doing everything possible to keep projects on track, on time, and within budget.
- Coordinating resources across all Iris departments including Strategy, Creative, Design, Producers and our in-house team of makers, Wild Boar Studios.
- Working with the Commercial team to ensure all projects are priced accurately and profitably, owning the numbers from initial scoping through to final delivery, and ensuring all key financial details are tracked and reported as required.
- Exploring industry innovation, looking at how AI tooling can help with ways of working, enhancing ideas and producing final outputs.
- Guiding client stakeholders through production strategy, timelines, risk and feasibility with confidence, empathy and credibility.
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Required Skills
- Creative agency experience and a proven track record of initiating, managing and delivering programmes of work and/or large (£500k+) multi-channel integrated campaigns across a range of sectors and client types.
- An ability to coordinate complex projects with multiple stakeholders, balancing the quality of the work with protecting agency margin.
- Thorough understanding of fully integrated project management processes, being able to build robust, detailed project plans that enable accurate resource planning, give everyone clarity on what’s needed and when, while ensuring the agency always has financial control and visibility to manage profitability.
- A commercial thinker with a smart and flexible approach to pricing fee proposals, able to work seamlessly with heads of departments and team leads to agree quotes and build in the costs needed to deliver excellence, as well as take a step back and assess cost versus effort and the value being driven.
- An ability to stay calm, collaborative, and organised under pressure and being someone who thrives in driving standards and consistency, team morale, and operational excellence.
- Acting as the perfect delivery partner to the Client/Business Lead and Producer and where necessary taking clients on the journey including educating them around how far fees can stretch and realistic investments required based on project ambitions, scale and budgets.
- Proactively exploring digital/AI tools to fuel identify ways to improve workflows, enhance collaboration and make work better, smarter and faster.
- A natural leader who can comfortably manage multiple projects of varying sizes simultaneously, while providing clear direction and oversight to more production focussed members of the team.
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Equal Opportunities
Iris is an advocate for equal opportunity in the workplace. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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