Project Manager – Integrated Agency (2+ Years Experience)

The Role – Project Manager (reporting to Traffic Manager)
We’re seeking an organised, proactive Project Manager to join our integrated marketing agency. You’ll be instrumental in managing client projects, coordinating teams, and ensuring smooth delivery of work that exceeds client expectations. This role is client-facing, ideal for someone who thrives on building relationships and delivering projects efficiently.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage day-to-day execution of client projects, serving as the primary point of contact for project-based accounts and one-off projects.
• Communicate effectively with clients, providing clear updates on timelines, budgets, and project progress.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard of quality.
• Schedule internal resources effectively using Monday.com, tracking project status and team availability accurately.
• Coordinate freelance resources, ensuring they are briefed clearly and deliver high-quality outputs that meet deadlines and budgets.
• Monitor and report on individual project recovery rates and profitability.
• Provide regular updates and project forecasts to the Traffic Manager to support accurate resource and financial planning.
• Proactively identify, communicate, and resolve project-related issues or risks, escalating promptly to the Traffic Manager when necessary.

What We’re Looking For

• Demonstrable experience in project management, ideally within an integrated or creative marketing agency environment.
• Strong client-facing skills, with experience managing client relationships effectively.
• Proven ability to coordinate resources and deliver multiple projects simultaneously.
• Competent in using project management and workflow tools (Monday.com experience desirable).
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with attention to detail.
• Comfortable working under pressure, able to prioritise tasks, and consistently meet deadlines.

Your rewards

As well as a competitive salary dependant on experience, you will receive:

• Up to the equivalent of 37.5 days leave (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 24 days of holiday plus 3 days over Christmas, 5.5 life balance days (a half day each month to do whatever you want), and an additional holiday for each year of service, up to a total of 5 extra days.
• Early finish on a Friday.
• Private health insurance which covers pre-existing conditions, cancer care and gives cashback for routine optical and dental treatments.
• Life assurance.
• Pension scheme.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• £1000 for referring a new hire.

And we offer:

• Working from our Manchester office with flexibility for hybrid working.
• Access to a personal trainer/nutritionist, free fruit, and breakfast.
• Mental health support and access to professional therapists through ‘Spill’.
• Yearly peer feedback and performance reviews tailored personal development plans and objectives.
• Access to industry accredited professional qualifications through our IPA membership.
• Employee voice, we consult our people on matters affecting them and encourage participation in surveys, our suggestions box and employee awards.
• A social buddy, monthly agency socials and events put on by our culture committee.
• Lunch & Learn events to gain more understanding of different facets of agency life.

About TrunkBBI

TrunkBBI is an integrated marketing agency focused on creating engaging, immersive, and highly creative experiences for brands. We are a collaboration of some of the top names from network and bespoke agencies, brought together to deliver a boutique experience and service to clients. Unique in our approach and our desire to do things differently, we build client teams that combine the best of abilities in design, dev, tech, content, engagement, and performance. Our belief in our approach ensures we produce brilliant results for clients.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We had always thought our business was open and inclusive. Afterall, one of our values is “Everyone matters”. We hammer home the behaviour of treating everyone with respect, seeing things from the other person’s perspective, understanding that everyone has different values, responsibilities, concerns, families.

But when you delve a little deeper into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, this value is a great place to start but it involves so much more.

Here at TrunkBBI, we naturally welcome difference. It’s what gives us strength as a business, the wide breadth of experience, capabilities, and perspectives. And any creative business knows that the best ideas don’t come from just one place. Diversity is important, but we feel what makes the real difference is inclusivity, or the act of helping people feel valued and enabled regardless of their differences.

We have really then only just begun our diversity and inclusivity journey. We started by ensuring everyone has mandatory training to help people understand what it means to be inclusive. We’ve set up a panel of people within the business to champion difference and we have ambassadors who are gaining their IPA D, E & I certifications. We continue to learn and evolve, and realise that this is not a quick win, or a ‘one and done’.

We are adapting our practices, offering home working, flexibility around start times, offer monthly life-balance days, offer access to mental health professionals, assess our working spaces to accommodate brilliant neurodivergent minds. And will continue to evolve to enable the difference around us.