Senior Content Manager

Not Actual Size is an independent, employee-owned agency. We help brands to listen and use that intelligence to craft meaningful conversations.

About the role

As a Senior Content Manager at Not Actual Size, you’ll be joining a dedicated content management team.

You will drive and manage a range of content – from brand campaigns to new product launches. You will be responsible for facilitating the entire content process – from creative development to final delivery and evaluation – within the following areas:

Client:

● Providing best-in-class client counsel, building and nurturing relationships with multiple senior stakeholders and demonstrating thought leadership

● Collaborating with client partner agencies to enhance content and productively drive projects forward

● Presenting and pitching

Team:

● Managing mid-level and junior team members, leading by example and providing strategic advice and support. Supporting the Content Director in leading and developing the team.

● Leading cross-team collaboration and communication to ensure seamless, best practice project and content development

● Working closely with the Social Media Manager to ensure all brand campaigns are executed with best-in-class social media strategy

● Harnessing specialist expertise, at the right times – internally and externally – to drive industry leading content innovation

● Planning, directing and briefing internal resource, across editorial, design and strategy

Project and content management:

· Interrogating client briefs to understand the strategic challenges

· Careful and accurate project scoping, ensuring efficiency, profitability, creative excellence and quality control

● Rigorous budget negotiation, tracking and reporting, and high standard account administration that adheres to internal procedures

● Developing clear, sharp briefs and working with internal and external creative teams to ensure they are met with accuracy and excellence

● Critical reviewing of content, providing constructive, appropriate feedback in clear and actionable formats

● Constant assessment of processes, practices and content to drive improvement and success in all areas of the business

About you

We are looking for a smart, motivated manager, with a minimum of 6 years agency-side project management experience, working with blue chip and/or luxury clients.

You are:

● Known for consistently delivering work to a high standard

● A natural team player, willing to lead whilst valuing openness and collaboration with all team members

● Able to develop strong relationships with new/potential clients, confident in driving conversations and often challenging them

● Able to work quickly and calmly to meet all deadlines, juggling multiple projects simultaneously, with the ability to dispense advice along the way to clients and team members

● Confident in pulling together ruthlessly accurate timelines and budgets

● Comfortable in providing constructive feedback to creative specialists and clients

● Proactive in ensuring all streams of work are pursued and driven forward

● A direct and clear communicator – whether updating a client, presenting ideas or briefing internal teams

● Extremely organised, with impeccable attention to detail and an ability to maintain high standards during bursts of activity

● A sideways-thinker; thinking outside the box to discover new ideas and perspectives

A little more about us

Based in a beautiful townhouse office in the heart of Smithfield, we are a tight-knit, growing team, finding big meaning in small things for global brands such as Unilever, Luxottica and LVMH.

We’re a community built on our values, which we embody every day:

● Immerse: To do a good job we need to truly immerse ourselves in our client’s world.

● Energy: We enjoy what we do and it shows. We are optimistic and solutions-focused – the people you look forward to meeting with.

● Rigour: We obsess about the details, from the initial brief to the execution. We leave no stone unturned.

● Open: We have a candid approach in how we see problems and discuss solutions. We are transparent and accountable.

● Care: We care about what we do and the impact we have. From delivering the best work to making sure our work is ethical and responsible.

Company benefits include 25 days holiday, Vitality healthcare and a flexible working policy. We are open to discussing a working pattern that suits our employees and operate a split between remote and office working. We embrace diversity and highly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.