Bully Pulpit International is an outcomes agency working across business, politics, and policy. Its teams combine data, technology, strategic communication, and creative work to help organizations build trusted brands, transform enterprises, influence markets, and shape public policy. The company supports audience development, message testing, content creation, and campaign strategy, with work that includes addressing misinformation and exploring transformation in sports. Through its association with Seven Hills and Message House, BPI also extends its capabilities into the UK and specialist insights work.
Creative Project Manager, London (Hybrid)
Manage creative operations for Bully Pulpit International’s European design team, coordinating workflows, resourcing, budgets, and delivery. Work across teams and time zones to deliver creative assets on schedule.
Description
- Lead creative projects from intake through delivery for BPI Group’s European design team.
- Shape creative briefs and manage project intake, prioritisation, scheduling, and resource allocation.
- Plan milestones and delivery schedules for pitch decks, social campaigns, editorial reports, and assets for multiple markets.
- Track team capacity across Europe and shift resources to meet urgent deadlines and pitch requests.
- Coordinate European design teams, account leads, strategists, and senior executives across territories and time zones.
- Turn agency goals and client requests into clear briefs for designers.
- Monitor project hours, production costs, and resourcing metrics to keep work within scope and support profitability.
- Coordinate external creative partners, print vendors, and translators as required.
- Manage contract negotiations, onboarding, and purchase orders for external design and production resources.
- Check deliverables for quality and alignment with client guidance and BPI Group brand standards.
- Refine project management tools, digital asset management systems, and intake templates.
- Resolve operational bottlenecks to improve delivery speed and output quality.
Requirements
- Bring 5–7 years of experience in creative operations, creative services, project management, or a similar role in an agency or fast-paced creative setting.
- Have experience developing scopes of work, staffing plans, timelines, and estimates, with a solid grasp of creative production workflows.
- Demonstrate strong commercial and financial awareness.
- Have managed creative workflows from brief to delivery, identifying gaps and improving team efficiency.
- Understand creative resourcing and how to balance employees and freelance talent against project needs, timelines, and budgets.
- Be highly organised and able to manage several projects, priorities, and stakeholders at once.
- Work confidently with Creative, Client Leads, Strategy, and Finance teams.
- Take a people-first approach, adding structure and accountability without unnecessary process.
- Be proactive and solutions-focused, spotting potential issues early and helping teams find practical responses.
- Have experience with project, resource, and financial tracking tools, and an interest in improving team workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Discretionary bonus programme.
- Company pension scheme.
- Flexible and hybrid working.
- 25 days of holiday.
- Additional holiday between Christmas and New Year.
- Private medical insurance.
- Enhanced family policies.
- Discounted membership at local gyms and yoga studios.