Senior Project Manager (12 month Maternity Cover)

The role

Who We Are

We are a global socially-led creative agency, with unrivalled social media and influencer marketing expertise. With over 1,200 people in four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We’re proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Amazon Music, Activision and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date.

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

The Opportunity 

Are you a highly organised project expert focused on delivery rigour and operational excellence?

Do you want to lead the delivery of social-first campaigns for major clients?

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager for a 12 month FTC to join an established team to lead the delivery across two key accounts. This project role is responsible for driving projects from brief to completion, overseeing the end-to-end delivery of campaigns by managing timelines, resources, finances, and cross-functional teams. Do you have a proven social agency track record and proven experience delivering campaigns end-to-end with budgets of £100,000+?

Requirements

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Successfully completed all assigned projects and retained workstreams, demonstrating end-to-end ownership.
• Established and maintained comprehensive project documentation, including detailed plans, accurate timelines, and clearly defined scopes of work.
• Achieved delivery through effective coordination of cross-disciplinary teams (strategy, creative, design, production), resulting in seamless workflow.
• Identified and mitigated potential delivery risks and dependencies, ensuring challenges were proactively solved and did not impact project timelines.
• Established and maintained position as the trusted day-to-day delivery contact for clients.
• Consistently managed and aligned stakeholder expectations regarding timelines, budgets, and scope.
• Appropriately escalated critical issues in a timely manner, supported by clear, accurate, and regular status reporting.

What Else Are We Looking For?

• Managed all project budgets accurately and completely, from forecasting through tracking and final reconciliation.
• Demonstrated efficient resource utilisation and maintained strong financial control throughout all projects.
• Proactively identified and managed scope creep, with timely notification and clear presentation of financial implications to stakeholders.
• Optimized resource planning and allocation across concurrent projects, ensuring full utilization and workload balance.
• Delegated tasks clearly and effectively supported delivery, empowering team members to meet objectives.
• Implemented and advocated for project process efficiencies, leading to continuous improvement in delivery methods.
• Project execution consistently adhered to agency workflows and met all turnaround expectations.
• Established structure and maintained clarity for teams operating in fast-paced, high-volume environments.

Benefits

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK  can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2026.

Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success, and we want to create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds and are committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence. If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected]

So let’s get to the good stuff,  we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world! 

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?