Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Department: Project Management

• Employment Type: Full Time
• Location: The Future Laboratory London
• Reporting To: Ben Baldry
• Compensation: £48,000 - £53,000 / year

Description

We are leaders in navigating the future.
 
The Future Laboratory® is one of the world’s most renowned futures consultancies. 
We help brands have a clearer view of what’s to come so they can build stronger and more resilient businesses. 
 
Since 2000, we have worked with more than 1,000 businesses on over 5,000 projects in 50+ countries. With offices in London, Chicago, New York, São Paulo and Melbourne, our dynamic teams are constantly identifying – and questioning – the signals of change across 21+ industry sectors worldwide. 
 
In 2022, The Future Laboratory became part of the Together Group, an industry-leading group of agencies for the lifestyle and luxury industries, with over 500 creative minds and strategists in over 15 locations globally.
 
The Future Laboratory is built on six core principles, or values, which define both the ethos of the business and way we conduct ourselves as professionals: inspiring, enlightened, progressive, empowering, collaborative, and fearless.

Key Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced, highly organised and proactive Senior Project Manager to coordinate multiple strategic foresight projects, throughout their entire lifecycle, from proposal to delivery.  This role involves managing resources effectively and ensuring seamless delivery to clients. The ideal candidate will have experience in project management in a fast-paced agency environment, managing multiple projects and stakeholders at once, with a strong ability to allocate resources efficiently and drive projects to completion.

: Develop and manage delivery of high-quality projects, ensuring alignment with client objectives and foresight methodologies
: Define project objectives, key deliverables and timelines with stakeholders
: Ensure projects meet time, budget, and profitability goals and track key performance metrics
: Proactively manage multiple clients and projects, providing regular updates, pre-empting potential issues, and maintaining clear communication channels
: Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring flexibility in project execution whilst ensuring highest quality of work has been maintained
: Develop accurate cost estimates and timelines for new business proposals.  Contribute ideas and suggestions to proposal development.  Maintain oversight of the new business pipeline 
: Assess project resource needs, monitoring team capacity and effectively manage potential project delays
: Supporting in the allocation and scheduling of internal and external resources
: Oversee timesheet tracking for your projects ensuring all time is logged correctly to support reporting and resource planning
: Build good working relationships with internal teams and develop a positive rapport with key client personnel on project-related matters  
: Hire freelance resource when necessary, negotiating costs and contract agreements
: Onboard and offboard freelancers on relevant business systems, including inductions with relevant stakeholders and IT setup 
: Work closely with Director of Finance & Commercial Operations on project status and performance, safeguarding profit margins
: Audit and enhance workflows and processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Skills, Knowledge And Expertise

: A minimum of 3 years’ experience in project management in a fast-paced agency environment
: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels within the business
: Able to lead client meetings and business reviews in a confident and concise manner
: Highly organised and capable of managing multiple deadlines and stakeholders simultaneously across different time zones
: Excellent attention to detail
: Able to work under pressure
: Highly proactive, adaptable and self-motivated, with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to quality
: Commercially driven, with a focus on optimising efficiency and profitability
: Experience with project management systems (i.e. Paprika, Monday.com)
: Experience with Keynote and Excel ideal.

Benefits

From your first day at The Future Laboratory, you can expect to enjoy the following benefits: 
 
: Flexible & hybrid working
: Christmas break
: Matched employee pension contributions up to 5%
: Other benefits include Smart Health (access to health experts 24/7) and bereavement counselling, both of which are available to the employee and their families.
 
After passing your probation, you will be eligible to opt into our dental scheme, take advantage of birthday leave (an extra day of holiday to take on your birthday) as well as many other great benefits, including an annual learning bursary, eye care, flu jabs and holiday purchase, to name a few.