Creative services & project manager (6mth FTC)

Creative services & project manager focuses on maintaining a clear, real-time view of team capacity.

What the role involves

• Maintaining a clear, real-time view of team capacity.
• Build accurate, defensible time quotes for all Motion briefs.
• Develop a robust quoting library to improve accuracy over time.
• Managing bookings end-to-end: outreach, onboarding, delivery.
• Reporting on capacity and utilisation to senior stakeholders.
• Supporting forward planning and forecasting for busy periods.

Skills and requirements

• Deliver brands across the entire consumer experience.
• Proven experience in operations, resourcing or production within a creative or motion environment.
• Strong understanding of motion and CGI workflows and how projects are scoped.
• Confident with resourcing and project management tools.

Confirmed role details

• 📈 Group personal pension.
• 🌴 25 days holiday + time given at Christmas and New Year.
• 🌍 2 weeks work from anywhere, by agreement with line manager.

Candidate fit

• ownership, planning discipline, stakeholder communication, and practical delivery judgement

Additional role context

• Jones Knowles Ritchie is a branding business, founded in 1990 and proudly independent ever since.
• We started out in the world of packaging, but now we’re worldwide: from three founders, to more than 300 of us across the UK and USA.
• Identify inefficiencies and implement practical improvements.