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Advertising Project Management Executive - Branded Content
The Advertising Project Management team is responsible for supporting the commercial arm of the Financial Times and is intrinsic to the sales process, not only protecting revenue but key to securing future revenues.
We are seeking a bilingual (Japanese and English) Project Manager who will oversee commercial content campaigns within the Japanese and APAC market. This role requires building and maintaining high-value relationships with internal and external partners, ensuring excellent in delivery across campaign elements, including stakeholders management, content creation, design, and client servicing.
As a member of the Global Project Management team, you will work collaboratively across our international offices to deliver world-class campaigns, ensuring all projects align with FT's quality standards and client expectations.
The successful candidate will be responsible for consulting at the pitch stage, checking the feasibility of projects, ensuring processes and procedures are in place to delver on time and budget, evolving campaigns where necessary and delivering a post-campaign analysis. Ensuring the client's needs are at the heart of this process is paramount.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a Global Project Management team in Tokyo, London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Key Responsibilities
Key Skills and Experience:
Personal Qualities:
This role may involve travel for content production and client meetings. If you have a passion for project management, are fluent in Japanese and English, and thrive in a global environment, we encourage you to apply and be part of our dynamic team at the Financial Times. There may be opportunities to travel to our HQ in London.
What’s in it for you? Our benefits
Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here.
We’ve embraced a hybrid working model that promotes flexibility, including remote work options. We will support specific flexibility requests for all roles where feasible.
Accessibility
We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email [email protected] and a member of our team will be happy to help.
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