Creative Studio Senior Project Manager

We’re making zero carbon happen

We’re OVO Group, a big family of companies united by a single vision: to get to zero carbon, fast. 

We call this Plan Zero – and it shows how we’ll be fighting the climate crisis and transforming the way people use energy over the next decade. To do this, we need the sharpest minds. Are you up for the challenge?

Do great green things with OVO Energy

So much has changed since we launched in 2009.  Our goal remains the same though: make energy cheaper, greener, and simpler. Just as it was on day one.

Everyone belongs at OVO

Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive movement: teams of brilliant people, with unique talents, skills, passions, and experiences. 

We encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, life experience, or background. So please come as you are – we can’t wait to meet you.

Where we’re based:

With 3 main offices across England and Scotland, we’re pretty well versed in remote working. This role is a predominantly remote working role, with expectation to visit either the Bristol or London office once or twice a week. However, we’re super flexible, so can discuss your working situation as part of the screening process.

Where in the world of OVO will I be working?

Team: OVO Brand and Marketing Team

Sub Team: OVO Creative Studio

What will I be doing?

As Senior Creative Studio Project Manager in the brand and marketing team, you will be a great teammate who is able to form strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, designers and copywriters. All whilst utilising strong project management skills to ensure all special and larger studio projects are produced on brief, on budget and to the required timings. You’ll be calm under pressure, able to keep the team cool when timings are tight and maintain an impeccable standard of delivery. You will also be a process specialist, used to implementing best practice when it comes to Studio processes from briefing through to approvals and feedback.

A creative and production background is key in this role. You’ll have heaps of experience in both photography and video production, as well as creative delivery. Ideally inhouse and with agency experience too. This covers everything from supplier management through to timing plans to storyboarding, creative concepting, long form copy and post production. 

Responsibilities:

• Partner with one or multiple briefing workstreams and be there point of contact for briefing, scoping, management of projects and process improvements and communication. Work with them on their utilisation rate of studio resource and help to manage the prioritisation of their pipeline
• Work with stakeholders to develop creative briefs, ensuring all tasks are clearly defined for the studio creative team
• Day-to-day management and guidance of project progress, resource planning, management and coordination of all project deliverables.
• Collaborate and communicate with multiple stakeholders across the organisation to clearly define business outcome, required project deliverables and key milestones.
• Regular check ins with key briefing teams to discuss upcoming briefs, ensuring we have the right resource lined up to deliver them
• Identifying and managing stakeholders effectively, anticipating challenges, and developing plans to address risks.
• Ensure all processes are upheld, be an example of best practice for the rest of the team and identify and work through the plan for areas that require process development. This will include identify the challenge, working through the solutions (with agreed stakeholders) rolling out and communicating the change, and helping to embed the ways of working
• Deliver large, cross functional team projects as your bread and butter, using Monday.com as the key project management, communication, reporting and scheduling tool

Is this the job for me?

This person will have a track record in delivering creative comms work for Marketing teams in ‘start up’ or ‘turnaround’ ideally in fast paced, retailing environments. We’d love experience delivering a wide range of output including video, animation, CRM, ads, blogs, print, events and experiential too.

They will;

• Have proven experience of supporting projects that are already moving and an ability to add value from day one. Specific experience of the project management of marketing and brand teams and their interface into wider (preferably digital businesses) is a must.
• Relish the challenge of a fast paced, matrix working environment
• Be process driven, with experience of implementing and improving day to day Studio processes
• Be calm whilst working with levels of ambiguity and adept at bringing order and clarity into a team environment
• A real people person who develops powerful working relationships quickly and maintains them successfully
• An exemplary teammate, at their best when working within a collective to deliver a shared vision
• Energy and positivity; the person everyone wants to have in the room
• Incredible organisation in a way which instils confidence into all
• Organisation skills are critical - you will be coordinating multiple partners across multiple tasks from multiple projects daily
• Proactive project manager used to working to tight timeframes
• Experience of the utilities industry is a real plus

Brilliant benefits for a world-changing team

Our people are at the heart of Plan Zero. That’s why we offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to make you feel at home.

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

Then there’s Flex Pay. It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans 

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!