THE ROLE

We are on the lookout for a Project Manager with personal passion for SPORTS to join our Toronto office to join our growing Client Engagement team.

You'll be working alongside an enthusiastic group of talented teammates across multiple departments, supporting key productions for socially-led campaigns, activations, and editorial content. This includes in-office (hybrid) and on-site client meetings as necessary.

Reporting into a Senior Account Director, you and your growing team will be working across one of our key clients with an eagle-eye level of detail. Bring your production network, bring your entrepreneurial energy, bring your love for creativity! And bring your SPORTS obsession.

WE ARE

A creative agency powered by social connections. That means we thrive on what's trending and creating campaigns that get people buzzing. We call it “Ideas Worth Talking About,” and we're proud to have played a part in some of the most culturally relevant campaigns of the decade for brands like McDonald's, Adidas, Universal Studios, and YouTube.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE

• We like to laugh, we live for celeb gossip and we're great on AUX.
• Our passport program lets you explore and work from one of our 18 other offices worldwide, including Paris, Singapore, Madrid, Dubai, London and more!
• You best believe we know how to celebrate our wins. And our losses (it's how we learn).
• From carbon offsets to community kitchens, we're passionate about making a difference.

YOU ARE

• A person who thrives in a fast-paced environment, responding quickly and proactively
• Not interested in just following trends – you want to create them
• A self-starter, who'll take ideas from concept to execution, navigating feedback like a pro

WHAT DOES THE ROLE INVOLVE?

Traditional agency experience is not required, but it's a plus. What matters is your deep understanding of what resonates with social audiences. This role is energetic, innovative and forward-thinking. Alongside engaging with communities, you'll guide brands by staying ahead of social trends and cultural moments. In return, you'll join a global agency dedicated to generating buzzworthy ideas for some of the world's leading brands.

As the Project Manager you will own all the workstreams across a key fast-paced account, looking after internal teams of creatives and strategists, as well as being a key client contact for our account on delivery of social organic and paid assets.

You will draw on your existing knowledge of how creative and content is produced and how to successfully deliver daily, while demonstrating solid Project Management skills – including scoping work, documenting key deliverables and associated timings and cost, booking resources, and managing a project team with focus on hitting deadlines, and be confident managing projects from start to completion.

You need to be a natural communicator, friendly and approachable with a good attention to detail and accuracy in all communication, whether internal or external. As one of the main client contacts, good client management skills is key, managing your own time, and setting expectations for the client for what will be delivered when.

The nature of our offering here at We Are Social requires a high level of flexibility, common sense and versatility. Our client's expectations, and being market leaders within our field, require a ‘can do' approach from all our staff; a commitment to finding solutions and looking for innovative ways to deliver work on an ongoing basis.

As Sport will be a key pillar for for client, a keen knowledge of Sports is mandatory, and if you are a huge sports buff, even better!

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Proven PM skills within a creative agency culture, including writing/updating timing plans, budgets, delivery plans and managing resources within your team
• Take ownership of retainer and project deliverables across your projects and see them through until completion
• Strong with finances, you understand that effort equals budget-spend, and you stay on top of budgets throughout all your projects. This includes ongoing reconciliations.
• Used to managing clients and managing client expectations and comms in partnership with your client services counterparts. You will be working closely with the client service team who own the client relationships, however having the finesse of being client facing is necessary.
• Used to working in a very fast paced environment, managing change in a multi workstream and multi team culture
• Confident managing a variety of work intended for digital and traditional platforms including social and editorial content, experiential and production ideas
• Good social platform knowledge and understand what audiences look for in social content, know formats and platform restrictions well
• Familiar with agency turn-around times and ways of working – good understanding of the dynamics of agency processes and enjoy the pace and challenges this brings
• Proactive when it comes to foreseeing problems, and can articulate these to the relevant people when required
• Proactive when it come to managing profitability of your projects - monitoring costs and proactively communicate overruns/financial issues to your senior team member in a timely manner
• Ensure all work is paid for – and that client requests are costed and approved before work is booked for production
• Flexible approach to working hours as some show launches/shoots/interviews may happen outside of standard working hours
• Ensures all work is signed off at the right stages, by the right people (both internal sign-off, and client approvals, e.g. of creative ideas or video assets)

REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ROLE

• 4+ years working as in a creative agency environment in a project management role
• Proficient in mastering an agency finance system and tools

• A champion of process, and can educate others around them to adopt the same process proficiency
• Good with finances and figures (‘head for numbers'), experience leading cross functional estimates, building Statements of Work, and handling BCRs
• Experience managing creative production from digital content, integrated brand campaigns, including but not limited to third party vendor management
• Good at managing people and understand how to get the best out of a team and a client
• Good communicator – both with internal and external individuals, and client
• Positive, with a ‘can-do' attitude, attention to detail - and someone who describes themselves as a ‘people person'. This role is external facing, and with that you will be interacting with internal teams, clients and other agency partners. Loving people is a must!

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN OUR TEAM?

At We Are Social, we don't just offer a job—we offer a creative career in an agency that moves at the speed of culture. Here's what you'll get:

• We are the first, largest, most awarded socially-led creative agency in the world, connecting you to 1,300+ like-minded professionals around the world
• An innovative and entrepreneurial work environment that promotes ingenuity and individuality - with the best of colleagues, and the best of clients
• Hybrid work models and flexible hours, plus a work from anywhere policy for short-term stays in other regions
• Generous vacation starting at 3 weeks + 1 extra week during the summer and over the holidays
• Agency summer days (exact policy differs per campus and agency)
• Modern, open co-working spaces with coffee & snack bars, located in great city neighborhoods, close to shops and restaurants and easy access to public transport
• Dogs allowed, dedicated private wellness room (in select offices)
• Regular team social events - holiday parties, seasonal gatherings, weekly happy hours, inspiring speakers and more! We are obsessed with learning and being better humans
• In-house learning & development sessions and annual career and growth conversations
• Access to internal network of opportunities across all agencies
• Focus on developing and recruiting BIMPOC Talent
• Internal EDI group(s), programs & initiatives across Plus Company and opportunities to be involved in employee resource group(s)

We invest in your health and wellness:

• Flexible benefits to support your individual lifestyle and life stage – with access to a personal wellness spending account you can use for a wide range of wellness expenses, including gym membership fees, pet care, education expenses, and much more!
• Comprehensive mental health support including access to a virtual mental health therapy clinic providing you with personalized therapist, guided iCBT programs and live therapy, access to health clinicians 24/7, and a holistic array of other health and holistic array of other health and wellness resources to support you and your family.

JOIN US

At We Are Social, we celebrate diverse perspectives and experiences. We welcome unique voices and talents, especially those not traditionally embraced by advertising. Discover more about our culture and our work.

Creating meaningful work means embracing different perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on age, colour, ability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. Not only are these provisions protected by provincial and federal law, embracing difference is what makes We Are Social what it is—and we wouldn't have it any other way. We pride ourselves on our inclusive and accessible workplace. If you need any accommodations during the interview process to make it work for you, let us know.

Let's do cool stuff together. Apply now!

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