Creative Project Manager - Team Lead

Are you an experienced project manager who knows how to bring clarity, confidence and calm to fast-moving creative work? We’re looking for a Project Management Team Leader to join Linney Create, our full-service creative agency.

This hands-on leadership role is for someone who loves project delivery, understands what it takes to get great work made, and can support, develop and connect a team.

You’ll help our PMs deliver work on time, on budget and on brief, while creating the structure, governance, training and team culture that help people thrive.

What you’ll be doing:

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• Lead, support and develop a group of project managers, helping them build confidence, capability and commercial understanding.
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• Build a culture of collaboration, openness and shared accountability, connecting the team and encouraging people to work together, not compete.
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• Provide day-to-day guidance, coaching and mentoring, including support with onboarding, induction, training needs and knowledge sharing.
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• Support PMs in delivering creative projects from brief to final delivery, helping them manage timings, budgets, scope, resource and client expectations.
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• Champion commercially proactive ways of working, including estimating, time management, WIP management, billing, invoicing, budget tracking and scope control.
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• Act as a clear escalation point for risks, blockers, client challenges and project pressures, helping the team find practical, positive ways forward.
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• Provide structure, governance and consistent ways of working across accounts, teams, documentation, project tools and reporting.
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• Work closely with Account Directors, creative, production and wider service teams to keep projects moving smoothly and to brief.
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• Encourage excellent customer service, timely communication and strong relationships with clients, colleagues and internal teams.
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• Champion positive change, new tools and process improvements that make delivery more efficient, effective and energising for the team.
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• Help keep the business and our people safe and informed through clear communication, good governance and strong project discipline.
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You’ll be an experienced project manager or team lead with strong organisational, communication and relationship-building skills. You’ll understand the realities of delivering creative work at pace, and you’ll know how to balance people, process, clients and commercials.

You may already be managing people, mentoring others or acting as the go-to person in your team. You’ll be ready to take that responsibility further and help shape how the PM team works, develops and succeeds.

You’ll bring:

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• Strong project management and delivery experience, ideally within a creative, marketing, agency or production environment.
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• Confidence managing multiple projects, priorities and stakeholders at pace.
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• A commercially aware approach, with experience managing budgets, estimates, timings, scope and resource.
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• Excellent communication skills across clients, internal teams and senior stakeholders.
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• The ability to support, coach and develop others with empathy, clarity and accountability.
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• A calm, practical and solutions-focused approach under pressure.
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• Confidence having honest conversations and helping people work through challenges constructively.
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• A collaborative mindset and a genuine interest in building team culture.
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• A proactive attitude towards change, process improvement and innovation.
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• A passion for creativity and delivering brilliant work.
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