Midweight Project Manager

Agency:

Octagon

Job Function:

Production

Job Subfunction:

Traffic

Job Description:

What is the role?

We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex, integrated sports partnership programmes. You'll be the central point of coordination across creative, content, production, hospitality, talent, rights management and live event workstreams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and to a high standard.

This is a delivery-focused role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, can confidently navigate the complexities of sports partnerships, and enjoys bringing people together to make great work happen.

We’re after someone who…

Has account management/project management experience within an agency, sports marketing or partnership environment.

Understands how rights holders, talent, venues, content production and live events impact project delivery.

Is highly organised and confident managing multiple projects, priorities and stakeholders at once.

Can build trust with clients and internal teams through clear communication and structured delivery leadership.

Has experience managing budgets, timelines, risks and project scope.

Enjoys solving problems, identifying risks early and keeping projects moving forward.

Has experience leading or mentoring junior team members.

Is proactive, adaptable and calm under pressure, particularly during live events and key delivery moments.

What you’ll do

Lead end-to-end delivery of integrated sports partnership projects across multiple disciplines.

Build and manage project plans, timelines, budgets and delivery workflows.

Coordinate teams across creative, production, content, hospitality, talent and rights management to ensure seamless delivery.

Track risks, issues, dependencies and approvals, resolving challenges before they impact delivery.

Support the management of project finances, contracts, approvals and supplier requirements.

Act as a trusted delivery partner to clients, providing clarity on progress, timelines and next steps.

Support large-scale pitches and new business opportunities with delivery planning, workplans and project expertise.

Champion best practice project management and help continuously improve how we deliver work across the agency.

Mentor and support junior project managers, helping develop capability within the team.

Experience

4+ years' relevant experience in project management/account management, ideally within an agency, sports partnership, events or integrated marketing environment. Experience with tools such as Microsoft Office, Smartsheet and Asana is beneficial.

About Octagon

Octagon is a global creative agency, with a specialty in sport and entertainment partnerships. With over 800 team members around the world, we work with brands to create big ideas that fans love and want to engage in, because it’s built in and around their passion. Where others see complexity we see possibility, and we believe in pushing authenticity, creativity, and longevity to do great things in the industry that lead the market. Octagon is now part of Omnicom https://www.omc.com/

It’s a great space to play – in the world of culture, content, and events – and if you’d like to be a part of it, we would love to hear from you.

Our Values

Our values: empowerment, intelligence, inclusivity, innovation, and impact, guide our behaviours as people and shape the way that we operate as a team. As a senior member of the organisation, you will find ways to embody these in your own job as well as provide leadership and oversight on how those values come to life in all our staff and how we collectively operate.

Competitive

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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