Project Manager

Role Details

It’s Nice That are looking for a Project Manager to join its team managing a wide range of creative outputs – from brand campaigns with our commercial partners to leading creative production for events such as Nicer Tuesdays.

As a Project Manager at It's Nice That, a key trait will be your ability to flex your organisational and project management skills across a range of mediums with a positive, make-it-happen approach. You’ll have true responsibility and accountability for the project management side of your projects, working collaboratively with It’s Nice That’s editorial, digital, creative and marketing teams, as well as liaising extensively with an array of creative collaborators.

Our clients include Converse, Dropbox, Mailchimp, Pinterest, Spotify and Wix, to name but a few, so leading long-lasting relationships with our existing clients and fostering new relationships is vital to the role. Past experience of communicating confidently and building lasting, positive relationships with both colleagues and external contacts will be beneficial.

We’re interested in someone who has an eye for detail, who loves working in a team and getting involved and who can demonstrate an organised and methodical approach to leading projects. Our projects span a wide array of outputs and creative disciplines, so this role will suit someone who’s keen to learn and undaunted by tasks not yet familiar to them. In return, It's Nice That offers excellent development opportunities within the company, as well as the opportunity to be part of a fun and friendly team who are all passionately engaged with the creative world.

This role would suit an experienced Junior or somebody who’s recently moved to working on midweight level projects.

Job Purpose

• Managing It's Nice That's online and commercial projects from scoping to execution
• Keeping teams on brief, on time and on budget
• Building successful, lasting relationships with collaborators and clients

Key Skills and Attributes

• Willingness to work across a variety of mediums; both digital projects, as well as events production
• Process-driven, organised and methodical with a high attention to detail orally, in writing and with numbers
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Positive and proactive problem solver, providing solutions and welcoming new challenges
• Culturally astute and aware of the creative industry
• Enthusiastic and proactive approach to personal development & strong ambition to learn new skills
• Experience managing events and physical production projects (preferred)

Key Tasks

• Responsible for the project management and production of projects
• Account management of commercial clients
• Managing workflow of project teams and competing priorities
• Managing small to medium budgets
• Scoping, quoting and contracting new projects
• Devising budgets and project timelines
• Developing long term and trusting relationships with clients, collaborators and suppliers
• Liaising and contracting collaborators and suppliers
• Overseeing effectiveness and financial performance of projects
• Maintaining clear communication with all team members and collaborators
• Working directly in project teams

Software Knowledge

• MS Excel, Google Sheets, Slides and Docs is essential
• Indesign, Photoshop, Databases, CMS is useful but not essential

Key Details

• We are proud to be an accredited London Living Wage employer
• Contract: Full time, permanent
• Salary: £26,000
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am — 6pm (flexible hours between 8am – 7pm)
• Location: Remote working likely for the duration of 2021 due to Covid-19. Travel to London will be likely post-Covid

Key dates

• Applications close 9am Monday 15th March 2021
• Interviews commence w/c 22nd March 2021
• With an ideal start date of mid to late April