Mid-Weight Creative Project Manager

Team: Brand & Marketing, Creative Studio

Salary banding: £35,000 - £42,600

Experience: Mid-level

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Lead Creative Delivery Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Collaborator, Detail-Oriented, Doer

Top 3 qualities for this role: Organisation, Communication, Creative Problem Solving

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based, for this role we're flexible between our London & Bristol hubs providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

We're looking for a brilliant Mid-Weight Creative Studio Project Manager to join OVO’s in house Creative Studio. You should be a great teammate, capable of building strong relationships with cross-functional partners, designers, and copywriters. 

Your fantastic project management skills will ensure that your studio projects are delivered according to brief, budget, and timelines (as much as you can control!) You'll remain calm under pressure, keeping the team composed during tight schedules, and maintain high delivery standards. 

This role requires a background in creative delivery, ideally with either in-house or agency experience. Experience in client services, delivering event collateral and production for video or photography is a real plus. Working within OVO’s Creative Studio you’ll be responsible for the delivery of creative and content being produced for OVO, from a wide ranging set of stakeholders. Examples of the type of output to be delivered includes event collateral like pop-up banners, posters and merchandise, videos, performance marketing and cross channel campaign assets, tailored visuals, illustrations and comms, van wraps, policy documents, engaging customer emails and site content. 

You’ll need excellent communication skills, a love for getting great work delivered, a passion for creativity and an eye for detail. Stakeholder management is a huge part of the role, alongside ensuring our internal processes are translated into working practices on your projects. You’ll always have an eye on opportunities to optimise how we work, and collaborating with PM team mates, to make it happen.

We're seeking an individual who brings contagious energy and positivity to the team and is inspired by OVO's zero carbon journey with its customers.

This role in a nutshell:

• Partner with one or multiple briefing workstreams and be their point of contact for briefing, scoping, management of projects, process improvements and communication. Help manage their studio ‘budget’ and work with them to prioritise their pipeline
• Day-to-day management and guidance of the creative team on your briefs, project progress, resource planning, management and coordination of all project deliverables
• Ensure all processes are upheld & any areas for process development are worked through with the Lead Project Manager
• Deliver BAU Projects as your bread and butter, utilising our internal project management system OVO Creates, for certain areas of the business (to be defined when you join) & special projects based upon objectives / requirements of the business
• Regular check ins with key briefing teams to discuss upcoming briefs, ensuring we have the right resource lined up to deliver them and clarity on what is required from the brief
• Identify and manage stakeholders effectively, anticipating challenges, and developing plans to address risks

Your key outcomes will be:

• Delivering great creative that answers the brief (and more!) 
• To have a ‘one team, one dream’ mentality with the creative studio, ensuring great collaboration and output
• Excellent stakeholder relationships and trust - so you can guide them and manage their requirements in the most efficient way
• Being able to optimise how we work (not just understanding the fundamental processes)

Within your first 3 months month you’ll:

• Know the creative team and key stakeholders you’re working with
• Having clarity around the set up of the business and how the briefing teams connect
• Have shadowed some of the PM team to understand our key processes and will start to feel confident about delivering BAU briefs
• Have scoped out some briefs independently (whilst having support from a Senior/ Lead PM where needed)Have delivered small to medium scale briefs
• Understand what good looks like (for our creative and briefs)
• Have gotten to grips with our tools and systems at a fundamental level (there will still be lots more to learn!)
• Have a solid understanding of how we report on use of ‘budget’ and brief numbers, and be able to pull your first stakeholder report

Systems: OVO Creates (known as Storyteq) Figma (for design) Slack

You’ll be a successful Mid-Weight Creative Project Manager at OVO if you…

• Are content juggling multiple things at once! From numerous briefs, resource requirements, process optimisation and scoping conversations
• Can balance quick turnaround work with longer lead briefs - we work across briefs of all shapes and sizes
• Have a passion for creative work and delivering efficiently - we love the work we create, but we also love to try and make things as efficient and effective as possible
• Get a thrill from problem solving - things come up, they always do! So we have to come up with creative solutions to problems regularly
• Are comfortable with the unknown or changeable - we work to plans and pipelines where possible, but things evolve and change (particularly in our industry) and we have to adapt to that
• Get a kick out of ‘testing and learning’ - sometimes you need to give things a go to see if it will work or not. A testing mindset and desire to continuously improve are vital for success in our team
• Can handle studio data and numbers around resource use and budget burndown 

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £35,000 - £42,600, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
For your home Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan , plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..