Project Manager
Minimum 4 years of industry experience
Fort, Mumbai
Onsite Hybrid
Monday to Friday
10.30am to 7.30pm
Were on a mission to build brands with purpose. Over the last 10 years, we ve worked with a wide spectrum of exciting brands with a fresh point of view and grown into a thriving team of creatives and strategists.
Were seeking a Project Manager who thrives in a creative environment, someone who can seamlessly manage workflows, collaborate with designers, and ensure that every project is executed to perfection. If youre passionate about overseeing design processes, enjoy working with innovative brands, and love bringing projects to life on time and within scope, let s connect!
WHAT WE RE LOOKING FOR
Project Management
- Understanding the brief: Understanding project scope approach, planning project teams collaborators, and anticipating any co-depencies.
- Staying organised and efficient: Monitoring project progress, trackers and commercials, and sharing updates with our founder, operations, creative teams or finance teams regularly. This requires efficiency with project management tools across slack, calendar, excel zoom. Youve got to stay on top of it!
- Having a point of view: At Thought Over Design, we invite people to bring their perspective to the table. As successful managers, we want to hear your thoughts on how best to tackle situations as they arise.
Client Relationships
- Understanding the client: Taking the effort to get to know the client and their objectives, and having the ability to customise our approach working team, based on each clients unique mindset requirements.
- Staying connected: Being a point of contact that each client enjoys connecting with, regularly communicating process progress, understanding requirements, and ensuring everyone stays on the same page.
- Valuing relationships: Creating a valuable genuine working relationship, ensuring clients have a smooth and rewarding experience working with us and would recommend us to others.
Internal team management
- Sharing the load: Helping the team plan their time and prioritise their tasks based on project schedules, to ensure everyone is sharing responsibilities and work.
- Encouraging collaboration: Understanding team strengths assigning tasks accordingly.
- Bringing clarity: Being the connection between the design/strategy teams and the client by communicating process, requirements, and managing expectations.
Extensions to managing projects
- Scope co-creation: Clients will have ongoing needs on projects. It is important to clearly understand what is needed and articulate it along with estimates based on studio rates.
- Managing external collaborators: Projects will often require various parts to be executed in collaboration with specific experts and production teams. This requires a special attention to detail - from briefing the collaborator to assessing budgets fit as well as working with them to achieve output basis client satisfaction.
- Billings follow ups: You will be the bridge between the studio accounts team and the client or external collaborators to ensure on time invoices are raised, shared and paid for / received.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years working in a creative industry or creative consulting firm.
- Excellent written verbal communication skills.
- Great organisational skills with experience of managing multiple project timelines.
- Proficiency in Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides) and openness to learn new tools as they come along.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Diverse and exciting projects with leading brands across categories.
- Working directly with founders and leadership teams.
- A warm and welcoming work culture that values creativity and collaboration.
- Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
- An opportunity to be part of a passionate and supportive team.
Building Brands with Purpose
