Studio/project manager

The Barn is a creative and production agency working within the fashion, luxury and lifestyle industries.

As an Studio/project Manager, your role will primarily be working with both internal teams and clients, helping to deliver projects, both large and small, within brand, creative and ecommerce, ensuring all aspects of the implementation are delivered at a high level of quality, on time and within the agreed budgets.

The ideal candidate will need excellent organisation skills, presentation skills, both spoken and written with a positive, team focussed work ethic. You will need to be client-facing and have sound commercial acumen. Taking ownership of projects and workloads from inception through to completion, you will work with the design and production teams, providing support and communication for our clients.

Job Spec

• Attend briefings, WIPs and production meetings.
• Produce and manage weekly workflows for the production team.
• Regular communication with clients, maintaining positive relationships, negotiating deadlines, creating detailed project plans, providing budget estimates when external resource is needed and managing expectations throughout a project.
• Filtering briefs and feedback received before the creative team receive it to ensure we have the right information and educating on the best way to brief and feedback to the studio.
• Ensuring projects are delivered within time and budget.
• Writing project documentation and managing project workflow tools.
• Reporting weekly activities to the senior team.
• Managing workloads, weekly sprints and project roll-outs, end-to-end, ensuring they run to strict time frames.
• Working with finance department to manage project invoicing and budgets.
• Supporting the commercial team with pitch documentation and proposals production.

Key Skills - must haves.

• Experience working on multiple projects
• Focus to effectively manage timelines, budgets and project planning
• Thorough organisational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work at a fast pace and under pressure
• Ability to maintain trust and confidentiality
• Strong team and personal leadership skills

Additional Skills - nice to haves.

• Understanding of Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies
• A knowledge of eCommerce methodologies and strategy
• Experience working with design and development teams
• Knowledge of Atlassian package software (Jira, Service Desk, Confluence)
• Knowledge of Harvest or similar time tracking software

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• 21 days annual leave per year, plus bank holidays, plus additional Christmas/NY break
• Corporate Social Responsibility days (Covid-19 permitting)
• Annual budget for conferences, books and other resources to help develop your skills
• Company wide bonus structure
• Summer and Christmas parties (Covid-19 permitting)

Job Location:

We are a remote working environment, with a studio in west dulwich that is optional to use and a central london address for meetings.