Presentations Project Manager (Maternity Cover)

Job description

We’re looking for a highly organised and proactive Presentations Project Manager to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, builds strong client relationships, and ensures seamless project delivery from concept to completion. This is a 12-month, fixed-term contract covering a period of maternity leave, with an anticipated start date in mid-to-end October 2026. About Us: We are Emperor Presentations, a dedicated 25-person team within a larger creative agency, combining a tight knit, supportive culture with access to fantastic agency wide benefits. Our team of designers, account managers, and project managers work together to create stunning, high-end presentations for major brands. We specialise in creating engaging, visually impactful templates and presentations for town halls, sales meetings, conferences, strategy days, Capital Markets Days, exhibitions, bids, and pitches. Beyond presentations, we also produce animations, social media templates, interactive brochures, and branded content, helping businesses tell their stories in dynamic and compelling ways. Every project brings variety, challenge, and creativity, making this an exciting place to grow your career. We are part of the Emperor Group who are an employee-owned strategic and creative communications consultancy. Emperor helps organizations connect with their stakeholders to achieve great things and operate across London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, and Dubai. Purpose: As a Presentations Project Manager, you’ll be at the heart of our fast-paced team, confident in client-facing situations, proactive in managing projects, and skilled at ensuring seamless delivery within tight deadlines and budgets. Beyond overseeing logistics, you’ll play a key role in contributing ideas and adding value to the creative process, helping shape outstanding final products. Key responsibilities: · Oversee projects from start to finish, ensuring smooth workflow from briefing to final delivery. · Ensure projects are delivered within agreed budgets and deadlines. · Liaise with clients and internal teams, ensuring clear communication and great service. · Manage multiple projects at any given time, varying in complexity and budget. · Develop strong business relationships with clients. · Coordinate regular client communication and meetings. Ensure clients are satisfied with progress and are regularly kept informed. · Allocate resources effectively and keep the team updated on progress. · Collaborate with designers, animators, and developers to bring creative ideas to life. · Ensure designers are briefed and ready to go first thing each day. · Requesting PO numbers from your clients. · Capture clear briefs and take detailed notes. · Handle invoicing at the end of each project. · Work closely with the project management team to identify project priorities and adjust schedules as needed to meet deadlines and client expectations. Skills & knowledge: · Ability to stay calm under pressure and manage multiple deadlines effectively. · Strong customer service skills. · Excellent stakeholder management and ability to build strong relationships. · First class communication skills (both verbal and written). · A proactive and problem-solving mindset. · A love for teamwork and a collaborative, can do attitude. · Highly organized and detail orientated. Client servicing: · Address issues effectively and proactively. · Demonstrate a high degree of professionalism. · An interest in understanding of client/ agency relationships. Financial planning and management: · Assist in successfully growing existing accounts and provide innovative solutions to build business. · Ensure client projects remain within budget and profitable. Business development/sales: · Contribute to new business initiatives. · Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships through regular close contact. · Selling our team’s services to new/repeat clients, recognizing opportunities to ‘upsell’ where appropriate. · Developing a solid understanding of services across the broader Emperor business. · Monitor team capacity and communicate with the Sales team to help drive business. · Keeping the PM team informed of all key activities within each account. · Manage freelance bookings when the design team is at full capacity. Personal qualities: · Fantastic communication. · Positive attitude. · Sound judgement and common-sense thinking. · Unquestionable business ethics and integrity. · Highly organized and able to multitask with ease. · Proactive and always ready to act. · Business and commercial awareness. · Engaging, collaborative, and skilled at building relationships. · Ability to deliver exceptional client service. · Flexible, adaptable style and approach. · Resilient, passionate, energetic and driven. Next Steps If you are successfully shortlisted for the role, the recruitment team will be in touch via email, and the process will begin from there. We endeavour to contact you within 5 working days of your application, however, this may vary depending on the volume of applications we receive. Good Luck! As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.