Senior Project Manager

Omobono is the digital experience company for business brands.  In our connected world, great digital experiences are key to business success. We help create experiences that bring our client’s story, product or service to the world in a way that helps their customers fulfil their ever-changing needs. We look at all our work through a digital lens and we bring stories to life with technology, we build frictionless experiences, create campaigns that connect with customers and solve business challenges with leading-edge creative thinking.

In August 2021, Omobono was acquired by The Marketing Practice and we’re very excited to now be recruiting, together with TMP, for a brand-new team based in Sydney, Australia. Our combined group, also including Kingpin, already employs over 350 people with locations across the globe and this is another exciting step towards our ambition of becoming the largest and most powerful full service global B2B-only marketing agency.

Overview of the role:

As part of a new team to be based in Sydney, we are looking for a Senior Project Manager on a permanent contract. You will be responsible for leading the smooth delivery of work to our clients and delivering high-quality work on time and within budget. Working on a main clients account, you are responsible for delivering our projects and campaigns (both big and small), taking charge of client communications, scoping, costing, planning, delivery and financial management.

You are the glue that brings our diverse teams together around shared objectives. You will be managing several projects at a time, where the type of deliverable for the client can vary greatly - you could be delivering a video, web page or digital experience one day and strategic consultancy, messaging, or a suite of creative campaign assets the next.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading project delivery, working independently and proactively, to deliver high-quality work for clients 
• Owning client relationships during the day-to-day delivery of projects 
• Preparing estimates and time plans 
• Taking complex briefs from clients and working with them and internal teams to shape the work, define the scope and agree budget/timelines for delivery 
• Owning the financial management of the job including managing billing plans and working with our finance team to complete billing 
• Understanding, and day-to-day management, of project profitability, maximising income from projects through good management and efficient delivery 
• Demonstrating ability to act as an advisor to clients, rather than just implementing things for a client 
• Build strong relationships with clients and internal teams 
• Ensure agreed processes and agency systems are used 
• Supporting the account directors to contribute to the growth of the accounts  
• Understand the client’s business to add value to the delivery of projects by connecting the dots as appropriate with work across the client portfolio
• Recruit, onboard and mentor other project managers, including contractors if need be.

Essential Experience:

• 5-6 years agency experience working with large clients – experience working with global professional services clients is a bonus 
• Experience of delivering a variety of projects including creative marketing campaigns, video and digital (websites, apps and digital experiences) 
• Experience of taking projects from initial strategy and concepts through to asset creation across a range of asset types e.g. digital/social assets, sales materials/brochures, video, web pages 
• A sound understanding of revenue, margins, utilisation and profitability, able to spot issues and identify solutions
• Able to scope, cost and plan detailed projects independently
• Ability to create and manage timelines inclusive of internal and client driven key dates

Key skills:

• Organized and efficient, able to accomplish amazing amounts of work and thrive on juggling priorities between clients, projects and teams
• A clear, articulate and confident communicator, comfortable presenting and leading client calls
• Adept at building trusted adviser relationships with clients
• A great relationship builder, internally and externally
• Great at spotting and creating business opportunities
• Excellent attention to detail and totally dependable
• Solution focused, able to get beneath the surface of a problem and overcome obstacles
• Highly collaborative working style
• Curious, hungry to learn new skills, unafraid to challenge and to come ready with ideas 
• Values and respects the different perspectives that make working in teams great 
• Bounces back from setbacks and finds solutions to problems 
• Flexible – able to adapt to changes in scope, project direction and step in to support team members when needed 
• Genuine passion for creative work with the ability to input and add value  
• Fascinated by new technology and how it is shaping our world 

About Us:

What else do you need to know about Omobono?

• Our strength is in our collective expertise – as a member of our team you’ll be working with colleagues in the UK and US; we have an office in London, with many of our people near Cambridge, Chicago and other parts of the US & UK to deliver work for clients all over the world
• We offer flexible hybrid working to all our team – so you’ll be able to work at home as well as in the office and flex your hours around the needs of life, your teams and project needs
• We want Omobono to be a place where the person you are matters as much as the job you do – we have an active diversity and inclusion team who lead projects to improve diversity, ensure Omobono is always a place where everyone thrives, and support learning across the company
• Our company exists as part of local and global communities – so we have an environmental, social and governance (ESG) team who will lead our efforts to make Omobono a better business conscious of making a positive impact on those communities
• We work hard to make Omobono a great place to work – a place where our people thrive able to deliver innovative and creative work that makes a real impact on clients
• Our culture and ways of working are very important to us – it’s a journey we started in 2019 https://www.omobono.com/insight/the-year-that-changed-us/

We value and support the people who work here and mental health at work is important to us so we’re proud to partner with Sanctus to give everyone who works here access to mental health coaching https://www.omobono.com/insight/world-mental-health-day-our-work-with-sanctus/2