About Interbrand
Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands.
To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.
Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.
In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.
The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.
Our Behaviours
Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.
Company Background
HYD is a new type of digital consultancy. We change through designing great digital products. We don’t do projects, we do partnerships. This means that we become a natural extension of our client’s businesses. Helping them to create impactful digital experiences for customers, employees and patients.
Based in the heart of London, HYD (formerly Mobile5) was established in 2011 as the first “Mobile First” agency. Our working philosophy seeks to marry the variety of working in an agency with the depth of working client-side. Together with HYD, Interbrand offers digital consulting alongside best in class user experience design, testing and product development.
We have produced some amazingly cool work for our clients who include tier one brands like; Samsung, Canon, HP-Snapfish, PlayStation, GSK, Jaguar, Renault & Renault sport, Virgin Media, Greggs, Xbox, Microsoft, John Lewis, Waitrose, Stagecoach and many more.
Who are we looking for
We are looking for a pro-active, detail-oriented Senior Project Manager to join our Delivery team. Responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery process, the Senior Project manager will be in charge of steering and supporting teams of multidisciplinary professionals across consulting, research, design and development deliverables. Taking the role of key stakeholder within high-profile projects and co-responsible for steering all resources required for successful completion.
Your day
- Putting your team to work, identifying the immediate tasks set out for the team and ensure they are being actioned.
- Time management, continuously advising internal and external stakeholders about the delivery of the agreed scope using the available resources within the plan you have laid out at the outset of the project.
- Reports, both in writing and meetings, you will report on the status of all deliverables and results in context of the success criteria defined by you and the team.
- Tracking, ensuring the right amount of efficiency by keeping track of project burn completion and budget.
There really is no typical day as a Senior Project manager at HYD, your tasks and time can vary day on day depending on what our clients need.
Your responsibilities
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● Ensuring strong team relations.
● Ensuring Service Level Agreements are met.
● Analysing project requirements and preparing budgets and schedules.
● Reviewing project resources and providing an analysis on whether they meet the demands of the project.
● Developing detailed plans, and monitoring progress as well as writing up reports.
● Liaising with relevant teams and directors for the duration of the project.
● Conducting research on delivery trends and work to elevate the Project Management team’s overall quality.
● Establishing good relationships with clients and other professionals.
● Using content management systems (Wordpress, Contentful, Drupal 8 and more) as well as project management software (Jira).
● Aligning HYD business strategies with the project management processes and goals.
● Keeping abreast of all development in flight for all your projects.
● Taking an active role in supporting the new business team to win new client relationships.
Your Skills
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● BSc in Computing, IT & Business or similar a strong pre.
● Project manager certification is a strong pre.
● Technical competence and understanding of the digital space.
● Ability to manage multiple teams (squads), some of which including clients, working
in separation towards the same project objectives.
● Proven skills in programme management is a pre.
● Familiar with UX/UI, User Research & Conversion Rate Optimization practices.
● Understanding of web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Headless
development.
● Familiar working with the Google business suite as well as Microsoft 365.
● Evidence of working with Agile project management methodologies.
● Proven experience of managing large-scale projects throughout the entire lifecycle.
● Stress resistant, proven capability of juggling multiple projects at once.
● Agency experience with strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
● Passion for anything tech and digital projects.
● Creative and, above all, proactive mindset.
Your Experience
We are looking for someone with proven experience working on large-scale projects, successfully. As Senior Project manager you will be working under pressure, being able to remain flexible and change direction when required is key. At HYD we focus on building partnerships so would be leaning on your experience to identify business opportunities and further build on client relationships.
Our People & culture:
We follow a policy of inclusivity and diversity, so we welcome all applicants of any race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
We are a talented bunch of technical specialists, designers, creative technologists, relationship managers, and strategists, all under one roof. We enjoy regular social outings together, and foster an environment that is inclusive and people first. We're looking to continue to build a culture where we produce excellent work and have fun while doing it.
We are building a connected, collaborative and inclusive human culture. As part of that culture, Interbrand is committed to creating spaces for open communication, transparency, and equitable support for all levels of employees. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are driving forces in how we create and embrace community while allowing our employees to refine their craft and solve problems for the world’s best global brands. Interbrand has both local and global DEI Task Forces, in addition to access to the Omnicom People Engagement Network (OPEN), OPEN Pride, Omniwomen, and are proud supporters of ADCOLOR.
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What We Do
Interbrand has been a world leading brand consultancy, for over 45 years – having pioneered iconic work and forged many of the brand building tools that are commonplace across the industry today.
We know that in an age of unprecedented abundance of choice and speed of innovation, customers’ expectations are moving faster than business. While incremental change is still essential, it is no longer sufficient. It takes bold moves to leap ahead of customers and competitors. We call these moves Iconic Moves.
In collaboration with the world’s leading brands, our global team of thinkers and makers are pioneering the future of brand building. By turning customers into active participants, we help our clients strengthen their brands on an ongoing basis – our approach gives them confidence to make Iconic Moves that spark desire and create utility, driving extraordinary results.
Interbrand is a part of Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC).
