Project Manager

What we’re looking for:

We’re looking for a Project Manager to help keep our studio running smoothly and ensure projects move from brief to delivery with energy and efficiency. You’ll be an expert organiser with a strong grasp of timelines, budgets, and studio workflow. Clear communication will be one of your superpowers, keeping both clients and the internal team aligned at every stage. You’ll balance being solutions-focused and detail-driven with a calm, can-do attitude. Experience working on branding, campaigns and web development projects is essential.

The role:

As project Manager, you’ll oversee the day-to-day management of all studio projects, owning timelines, budgets, resourcing, and workflow. You’ll be the go-to for keeping everyone on track, ensuring that deadlines are met and project milestones hit on time and within scope. Working closely with both clients and the design team, you’ll manage expectations, coordinate feedback, and help protect the creative process by keeping things organised and flowing smoothly. You’ll also help maintain and improve our internal systems and processes, ensuring the studio continues to run efficiently as we grow.

Who we are:

We’re Rowdy. A strategic brand studio for businesses on the cusp of something bigger and this role will have a big impact on the future of the studio. We don’t do shiny veneers. We do deep thinking, sharp ideas, and the kind of brand strategy that actually changes things. Then we bring it to life - visually, verbally, experientially. From identity to messaging to digital to behaviour, we make sure every part of your brand is built to go further, faster.

What you’ll do:

• Support the growth of existing business, farm new work on the retainers,
• Manage and maintain projects through the studio, from scoping to final delivery.
• Manage the day-to-day relationships with our client retainers, leading on project check-ins and requests.
• Pro-actively take responsibility for driving each project forward, on time and on budget
• Manage the resourcing and workflow of the studio, ensuring briefs, expectations and timings are clear across the studio.
• Manage partner relationships as an extension of the team.
• Guide and motivate people around you including teammates, partners & clients
• Support the estimating of project work and lead on the time planning and keeping of all studio projects.
• Manage the studio to create case studies and marketing to help the promotion of the studio.
• Manage, and maintain the financials of client accounts
• Implement and report key financial and team data in bi-monthly (RRP) meetings
• Maintain a detailed awareness of relevant market trends affecting your accounts, and developments in the wider design and communications industry
• Always seeking new and innovative ways to develop the work & your team

What we’re after for the role:

• 4+ years of hands-on agency experience in Client Services/Project Management
• Efficient, detail-oriented, organised, and able to work under tight deadlines
• Team player that’ll fit into our design-driven, collaborative team
• Extremely comfortable using project management tools & platforms (eg: streamtime, asana etc)
• Experience in managing a mix of cross-sector projects across clients, both B2B and B2C
• Able to balance day-to-day project deliverables, connecting clients to internal resources they need, and able to independently prioritise different workloads

Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• A hybrid-working model (3 days in)
• Drinks and lunch time outings every few weeks to keep building our culture
• Working hours are 9am - 5.30pm
• Half day Friday during the summer (July & Aug)
• Additional discretionary days around the Christmas period to ensure everyone gets 1 week or more off
• Bonus scheme
• 1 Week Remote Working Opportunities (timezone dependent)

No recruiters needed at this time. Please do not get intouch.