Project Manager
Are you an agency experienced Project Manager looking to make your next move within events and experiential? If so please ring Amelie on 0161 564 9625
£30,000 - £40,000 PA
About the Company:
An ambitious, high‑energy events and experiential agency partnering with world‑leading brands to create unforgettable Retail, Live and Digital campaigns that hit hard and deliver maximum impact.
About the Role:
As a Project Manager, you’ll keep the work moving with clarity, pace, and purpose. You’ll turn messy briefs into organised plans, help teams lock onto the “why,” and make sure every idea stays grounded in what audiences actually care about.
You’ll stay close to the creative from day one, jumping into workshops, shaping conversations, unblocking progress, and keeping delivery tight. You’ll push for smarter thinking, sharper execution, and smoother collaboration, all while keeping timelines, budgets, and stakeholders aligned. You’re the person who makes sure great ideas don’t just happen, they land.
Key Responsibilities:
- End to end project ownership, leads projects from initial brief to final delivery, coordinating teams, partners, and workflows to hit deadlines and budgets without compromise.
- Cross discipline delivery expertise, manages a wide range of outputs — events, activations, terrace takeovers, websites, print, and integrated campaigns, adapting process and pace to suit each discipline.
- Stakeholder alignment keeps clients, creatives, producers, and suppliers aligned through clear communication, expectation setting, and proactive issue spotting.
- Resilient and autonomous working style confident working independently on site or in the field, maintaining momentum and clarity even in fast moving or high pressure environments.
- Flexible delivery capability, comfortable supporting occasional long days or weekend work when projects demand it, maintaining professionalism and energy throughout.
- Operational precision, brings strong attention to detail, rigorous organisation, and a structured approach to planning, budgeting, scheduling, and reporting.
- Creative process fluency, understands how creative teams work and supports them with structure, clarity, and problem solving to keep ideas moving smoothly.
- Client partnership and care, builds trusted, long term client relationships, becoming a reliable partner who helps the agency feel like an essential extension of their team.
Skills and Expertise:
- Efficiency driven delivery, brings a sharp operational mindset and a passion for delivering standout campaigns, events, builds, and brand experiences that push beyond the expected.
- Client centric leadership, proven ability to manage client relationships with confidence and care, ensuring smooth planning, clear communication, and seamless end to end delivery.
- Relentless can do attitude, highly organised, proactive, and hands on, with the drive to jump in, solve problems quickly, and keep momentum high.
- Channel and audience insight, strong understanding of On Trade and Off Trade environments, with a curiosity for finding new, exciting ways to create meaningful audience experiences.
- Supplier and partner management, skilled at building productive relationships with suppliers and partners, ensuring teams stay motivated, aligned, and clear on roles and responsibilities.
- Growth oriented mindset, committed to continuous learning and development, always seeking smarter, more effective ways to deliver exceptional work.
Benefits: A competitive salary / Christmas shut down and your birthday in addition to holidays and bank holidays / Enhanced Maternity and paternity benefit / Enhanced Sick Pay / Private Medical Insurance / Medical Cash plan / Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
About Nova
At Nova Recruitment, we hold a wealth of experience and trade knowledge. We utilise expert search strategies and established industry connections to offer the best support for you and your business. Based in the heart of Manchester, we operate across the whole of the UK sourcing professionals across various sectors.