Creative Agency Sr. Project Manager

Job Description

Are you a creative thinker with a knack for managing complex projects across diverse channels? Our team at the LEGO Agency (OLA) is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead and execute integrated communication projects with excellence. In this pivotal role, you'll blend your expertise in social, digital, and video content with strong organizational skills to keep projects on track and within budget. You'll manage workflows, oversee teams, and ensure seamless communication with stakeholders, all while fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. If you're adaptable, detail-oriented, and passionate about delivering exceptional results, we want you to be the backbone of our exciting projects.

Are you ready to make an impact? Let's build something amazing together!

Core responsibilities

This role requires a strategic mix of creative thinking, and strong expertise in social, digital, and video content, strong time management, and organizational skills. Most importantly, it demands the ability to keep projects on track, within budget, and at the highest level of creative excellence.

• Manage workflows across multiple campaigns and channels, including digital, print, video, experiential, and more, optimizing efficiency and collaboration.

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of highly complex integrated communication projects, ensuring alignment with scope, quality, timeline, and budget.

• Oversee internal teams and external partners, fostering accountability and a cohesive working environment.

• Maintain clear, proactive communication with project teams, stakeholders, and clients, providing regular updates and managing expectations.

• Facilitate an effective creative process by setting clear objectives, supporting creative teams, and ensuring schedules and budgets are met.

• Navigate fast-changing environments, managing multiple stakeholders and adapting to evolving project scopes.

• Identify, triage, and resolve project challenges, proactively addressing risks and dependencies.

• Assess project feasibility, allocate resources, and develop strategic plans to achieve optimal outcomes.

• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships at all levels, ensuring satisfaction with project deliverables and identifying opportunities for improvement.

• Act as change manager and mentor to PM and Project team members.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Our LEGO Agency (OLA) is a full-service agency servicing the internal customers in the LEGO Group with all sorts of communication solutions. Our work spans broadly from communication strategies and concepts to development of Design and visual identity, product and campaign related assets of all kinds. The Project Manager is the internal backbone of the OLA project team in charge of planning and estimating and driving the projects from end-to end.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive experience as a senior project manager in an external agency setting.    Managing integrated agency teams, a plus.

• Strong creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and innovatively.

• Adaptable and change-ready, thriving in dynamic and fast-paced environments.

• Proficient in risk management, with the ability to identify and mitigate project risks effectively.

• Highly driven, energetic, and goal-oriented, with a passion for delivering exceptional results.

• Ability to perform under pressure, maintaining focus and composure in high-stakes situations.

• Meticulous attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and quality across all aspects of project execution.

• Proactive and resourceful, demonstrating initiative, ownership, and an entrepreneurial mindset.

• Commitment to creative excellence, setting and maintaining exceptionally high standards.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, embracing complexity and thinking beyond black-and-white solutions. Ability to be agile both in ways of working and driving a project.

• Highly agile in both approach and execution, adapting to evolving project needs while maintaining momentum and efficiency.

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• Work independently, recognized subject matter expert, able to coach others, tasks are independently identified and defined • Communicate directly with senior management, independently handling conflicts in negotiation • May manage large projects or processes independently

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $134,750.00 - $202,126.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
 
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
                                                                                                                                             
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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