Job Description

Project Manager

Landor & Fitch
Mumbai

Landor & Fitch is hiring the next Project Manager to join the Mumbai studio. Could this be you?

About Us

As a company with studios across the globe, we power up the best minds from 31 teams in over 22 countries to create a unique skillset for each client. We spark ingenuity with global creative sprints that cross time zones and borders and spur on the best of our talent. That includes exceptional brand consulting and strategic design, brilliance in experience, retail and workplace design, and competition-smashing motion design. We are part of the WPP group.

The role

System support

• Becoming experts in the resourcing platform Ground Control, to support the CS team and ensure projects are resourced adequately, inputting initial requests and updating throughout the project duration.
• Working with the Resourcing team to ensure resource reports are circulated, and resource requests remains aligned with scope and budget.

• Working closely with the Commercial Partners to ensure Sugar (our CRM and forecasting tool) remains up to date; inputting scopes and new opportunities, tracking revenue and forecasting, delivering communication on revenue updates for the CS team and other L&F offices where required.
• Assisting with client PO tracking and billing schedules, ensuring values match approved budgets, as well as sending documentation for billing to the finance team in a timely fashion.
• Working with the Commercial Partners and CS teams to ensure job numbers are set up and circulated.

Project support

Assist in the planning of all key meetings for both the client and internal teams to drive the project forward in a timely manor.

• Working with the Client Mangers to prep for key meetings, including ensuring the rooms are booked / set up as required. Proactively sourcing the relevant materials and ensuring they are accessible as required.
• Assisting in the creation and formatting of PowerPoint presentation decks ahead of meetings.
• Working ahead of time with local IT teams and Client Managers to ensure smooth facilitation of meetings.
• Accurate capture and timely circulation of meeting notes as/where required.
• Proactively liaise with Client Service lead to drive forward any actions for project delivery and keep internal status tracker up to date.
• Weekly circulation of relevant team job numbers and assistance in chasing missing time reports.
• Filing and archiving of all key materials related to the project.
• Assists with adhoc requests from the Client Services team related to coordination of travel, licensing or third party suppliers that may be required.
• Weekly collation and circulation of relevant news /media / reports to ensure the team remain up to date on industry related matters.
• Attendance at weekly Client Services meetings to ensure you remain on top of weekly business requests and assistance with collating or chasing information as required.

What we\'re looking for

As Project Management Support you will be providing day to day project support for an assigned Client/s team. You will work closely with the Client Service (CS) lead/s, to assist with admin and project management tasks. The ability to build and maintain relationships across all departments is essential to ensure effective project management.

Our commitment to diversity & inclusion

We believe diversity brings creativity, which is at the heart of everything we do. We are actively engaging in creating an environment free of discrimination, where our people and their uniqueness can shine and be celebrated. We\'re working to set a standard for the industry as a whole, creating a culture of equity and belonging. We may not be perfect, and we know there is work to do, but we regularly check with our teams and Employee Resource Groups on how we are doing, using their insight to frame our thinking and actions, so we can all do better, working as one Landor & Fitch.

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