Creative Project Manager (in-house Brand & Comms team)

Job Introduction

Our Brand & Communications team is responsible for telling the Sodexo story, and because there is such a great story to tell we are now looking to add a Creative Project Manager to the line-up.

As the Creative Project Manager you’ll be responsible for the smooth running of the creative content hub. This will involve everything from resource & project planning to client engagement to financial & budget management.

You’ll increase the efficiency and output of the content hub by ensuring that the creative team can focus on asset creation and creative consultancy services and that we have the right suppliers in place to support the needs of our organisation.

To be successful you’ll have great time management and organisation skills, be confident handling a spreadsheet with solid budget management skills and financial acumen, be a great communicator with brilliant stakeholder management skills and have a good understanding of the production, creative / digital marketing content process to boot. You don’t need to be a designer or copywriter, but you will (or should) know what strong creative work looks like!

You’ll have the opportunity to add value from your first day, working as part of a growing proactive, creative and inspiring team. You’ll be able to develop your knowledge and skills and build a career in a company that’s got so many stories to tell.

Role Responsibility

You will be joining a small inhouse creative content team, however it manages a high volume of work, often with quick turnaround times. As such, your role will be to:

• ensure projects are delivered in the most efficient and effective way whether this is by the inhouse team – who you will ensure are fully but not overly resourced; or the freelance/external supplier/agency bench – which you will work to reinforce
• manage stakeholder expectations to maintain and grow the reputation of the content hub within the business
• manage the pipeline of work and the financial administration that comes with that, working closely with both the Finance team and the Head of Creative to determine where pipeline dictates the need for additional resource.
• undertake a number of administrative responsibilities which include diary management; completion of production paperwork; processing POs etc.

A full job description can be located in the below attachment

The Ideal Candidate

What’s essential:

• Highly efficient and organised administrator with strong attention to detail
• Evidence of strong project management and financial management skills
• Effective communicator, approachable individual with good client management and negotiation skills 
• An understanding of the production/creative/digital marketing content process
• Experience in a similar or comparable role
• Confident, calm and reassuring presence, unfazed by tight deadlines and conflicting priorities

Where we can be flexible:

• Experience of working in a creative, digital marketing, PR or communications agency or in-house environment.
• Experience supporting either a new business start-up or an organization with growth aspirations

Package Description

Up to £36,000 per annum plus benefits and bonus

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process