A world where complexity is the only constant demands a new breed of company. Brave Bison is a different beast: a media, marketing and technology company purpose built for the digital era.
Our universe is made up of award-winning business arms Brave Bison Performance, Brave Bison Commerce and SocialChain. And we’re underpinned by our very own social-first media network who deliver monthly views in the billions for some of the biggest channels in sport and entertainment across YouTube, Snap, Meta and TikTok.
We’re a global collective who live and breathe digital, working with some of the boldest brands in the world to capitalise on the complexity that defines the modern marketing landscape.
Our mission
New platforms, new behaviours, new audiences, new trends, new technologies, new regulations—our clients’ worlds get more complex daily. Their agency partnerships shouldn’t. It’s our job to cut through the chaos, make the complex simple and navigate a clear path to growth for them.
That’s why we make it our mission to capitalise on complexity for our clients—by crafting dynamic digital solutions that outpace tomorrow’s challenges.
Our values
We’re a proudly diverse business comprised of deep specialists across social media, digital marketing and technology. Although our skills, backgrounds and beliefs may differ, we are united by four core shared values:
- Connected Clarity. We are focused in our collaboration — joining the right dots between our clients, our partners and our herd of experts to deliver agile solutions at speed and scale. We set a shared ambition from the outset, are transparent at every stage and always strive to make the complex simple.
- Positive Encouragement. We want to make working with us the best part of someone’s day. We lift one another up, find the fun in the day to day and are committed to ensuring everyone belongs.
We believe in outcomes over outputs. We’re goal orientated, results driven and data-led. We show up with passion every day. And we’re always honing our craft.
SocialChain
We are a creator collective designed for a modern world. A team of content creators, community builders, platform natives, tech innovators, and trend starters – perfectly balanced with talented and experienced marketing strategists, comms planners, client leaders and data specialists.
Together, we strengthen our clients’ SocialChain’s by building a stronger connection between people and their brand.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Effectively lead, manage and coach the Projects team to ensure they maximise their potential and consistently deliver industry-leading executions for our clients.
- Ensure all stakeholders are clear and kept accountable for their contributions to projects and the success of its execution.
- Work with senior management and Head of Departments (HoDs) to cost projects (existing client and new business) in a commercially and operationally efficient manner.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships within the creative, and more specifically, production industry.
- Work closely with the Creator Studio to ensure the highest levels of quality-control across all touchpoints.
- Keep the senior leadership team informed of any issues affecting the overall health of client relationships and any proactive solutions to remedy these.
- Lead internal training sessions to educate the team and wider agency on best-in-class project management practices.
- Support the team on identifying and mitigating project issues and risks.
- Be an expert at resource management and forecasting capacity needs for the team.
- Be a clear, concise and confident communicator both internally and externally (client and industry comms).
For the project delivery elements of the role;
- Interrogate briefs and immerse yourself in our clients’ worlds, bringing your unique executional perspective and skills to each creative project that you own or support the team with.
- Write and submit production briefs as approved by the Creative, Social Media Management and Client Services teams.
- Negotiate fairly to ensure the maximum possible value for the agency and our clients, whilst making sure quality remains paramount.
- Write production plans and ensure the seamless delivery of all creative outputs.
- Organise and host pre-production meetings ahead of shoots.
- Partner with internal teams to obtain internal creative approvals prior to client delivery. Then work in conjunction with Client Services to obtain client amends and approvals.
- Plan, prioritise and secure creative and production resources along with our Resource Manager.
- Build and maintain comprehensive project schedules, timing plans, production plans and WIPs. Ensuring all documentation is in a clear and orderly manner, ensuring assets and files are well-organised and easy for relevant internal teams to access.
- Escalate issues and risks to the respective Head of Department (HoD) and/or Account Director (AD).
- Consistently raise the bar with your projects by owning reconciliations and hosting wash-ups. Ensuring that all learnings are documented, shared and applied to future work.
Ideal Candidate Requirements:
- You’re commercially minded - You have strong commercial acumen and understand the need to deliver value for the agency and our clients throughout the project lifecycle.
- You’re a natural leader - You understand what it takes to effectively lead, manage and coach a team. Providing a rigorous support system and environment to help your team flourish and deliver industry-leading work is key to success.
- You’re innately organised & obsessed with detail - You thrive off organisation and love to consider all the finer details of a plan. It’s all the little things that produce big results.
- You’re invested in social - You have a deep understanding of social media platforms and how brands can best leverage them creatively.
- You’re a perceptive & holistic thinker - You confidently add value through clarity and an inclusive perspective. A champion of diversity and inclusion, ensuring our creative executions speak to and represent the rich tapestry of society.
- You’re a creative pathfinder - You can adapt and evolve as challenges arise, and can be pragmatic without losing sight of the executional goals. You react to problems with creative solutions that go beyond what is expected.
- You’re a self-starter - You can identify opportunities to add value and run with it. In the same breath, you are proactive in asking for help and support where required.
- You’re a great collaborator and motivator - You’ll encourage creative excellence by working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, earning respect as somebody who is easy to work with and trusted to deliver quality work.
- You’re building from solid foundations - You have 8+ years of experience within project management within the creative industry.
What you’ll get
- Dynamic working: To keep that work-life harmony in check, we're flexible on where and when you work.
- Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind.
- Income protection: We know it feels good to be covered, just in case.
- Calm Subscription: Now more than ever, it’s important to mind your mind!
- 25 days annual leave: This increases to 27 days after three years with us, and then increases every subsequent year up to a max. of 30 days.
- Christmas closure: No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period. It's on us!
- Birthdays off: One extra day to celebrate your big day.
- Summer hours: Between June and Aug we finish at 15.00 every Friday.
- Online coaching: Unlimited coaching via MoreHappi.
- Remote Working: Work abroad for up to one month a year.
- Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone.
Finally, we’re proud and committed to being an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal opportunities for all and treating all existing employees and all job applicants in the same way, regardless of their age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status and marital & civil partnership status.
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Project Management, Advertising, and Marketing
Industries
Advertising Services, Marketing Services, and Social Networking Platforms
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