Client Project Manager – Global Consumer Brand Campaign (Contract)

Responsibilities

The Client Project Manager will lead the day-to-day management and commercial success of a major partnership with a globally recognized consumer brand. This involves coordinating multiple workstreams across 45 student events, ensuring alignment between internal teams and the client to meet performance objectives.

Requirements

The ideal candidate has proven experience managing complex client accounts or integrated marketing campaigns within an agency or media environment. Strong skills in stakeholder management, commercial oversight, and project documentation are essential for this high-visibility role.

Skills

• Project management
• Client relationship management
• Stakeholder management
• Campaign management
• Strategic planning
• Budget management
• Risk management
• Data analysis
• Cross-functional coordination
• Communication
• Operational oversight
• Commercial judgement
• Reporting
• Event management
• Problem solving

Benefits

• Pension contributions of 5%
• Holiday allowance
• Day off on your birthday

About this role

Reports to: VP Delivery Operations
Location: London, with travel to client events
Contract: 6 months
Start Date - Immediate Start
Base Salary: £50-55,000
native has been building for 10 years, but we're still very much a startup: fast-moving, ambitious, and building with intent. We're creating the infrastructure that connects students, Students’ Unions, universities, and advertisers through a managed marketplace.
Our goal is to deliver for students by increasing student engagement while enabling Students’ Unions to secure sustainable funding. For advertisers, we offer meaningful, measurable routes to student audiences. The more aligned these incentives are, the more defensible and scalable our business becomes.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an exceptional Client Project Manager to take ownership of the day-to-day management and commercial success of a major partnership with a globally recognised consumer brand.
This is a six-month contract leading the day-to-day management of a flagship UK campaign for a globally recognised consumer brand. The programme spans 45 student events across London, Manchester and Birmingham, running from November through to May, and brings together live experiences, technology, media and measurable audience engagement.
You will work directly with stakeholders at a globally recognised brand as their primary day-to-day contact and the central driving force behind the project internally, ensuring that all teams are aligned, deadlines are met and the partnership delivers against its commercial and performance objectives.
Our specialist teams will be responsible for executing the individual elements of the campaign. Your role is to bring everything together, maintain oversight of the entire programme and ensure that every workstream contributes to the outcomes that matter most to the client and native.
This is a high-visibility, fast-paced and complex project requiring exceptional organisation, meticulous attention to detail, strong commercial judgement and the confidence to manage senior stakeholders.
You will need to think ahead, anticipate challenges and proactively manage risks rather than simply react to them.
In short: you will own the day-to-day client relationship, overall project management and campaign performance, ensuring the partnership is delivered successfully and positioned for future growth.
What you’ll be working on
1. End-to-end project management
Own and maintain the master project plan, ensuring all deliverables, milestones, dependencies and deadlines are clearly defined and tracked.
Manage multiple workstreams simultaneously across the 45-event programme, ensuring all elements remain on schedule.
Maintain detailed and accurate project documentation, including timelines, action trackers, risk registers, decision logs and status reports.
Lead regular internal project meetings, ensuring clear ownership of actions and accountability across teams.
Proactively identify risks, dependencies and potential blockers, escalating where necessary with recommended solutions.
Ensure all stakeholders have clear visibility of project progress, outstanding actions and upcoming deadlines.
Adapt quickly to changing priorities whilst maintaining control of the overall campaign and its deliverables.
2. Client management and communication
Act as the primary day-to-day point of contact for the client, building a strong, trusted and professional working relationship.
Lead client meetings, manage feedback and approvals, and provide regular, structured progress updates.
Present weekly campaign performance updates, clearly communicating results, progress, risks and opportunities.
Ensure all client communications are proactive, accurate and timely, providing confidence in our ability to deliver.
Manage client expectations around timelines, deliverables and scope, confidently navigating challenges and difficult conversations when required.
Translate client requirements into clear, actionable briefs for internal teams.
Maintain a strategic view of the partnership, helping the client assess success against overall programme objectives rather than isolated event performance.
Ensure the client is consistently informed and never needs to chase for updates or clarity.
3. Cross-functional coordination
Work closely with multiple internal departments to ensure all elements of the campaign come together seamlessly.
Coordinate activity across Client Services, Campaign Planning, Student Audiences, Students' Union Partnerships, Staffing, Creative Production, Technology, Media and Data.
Ensure every team understands its responsibilities, deliverables and deadlines.
Manage dependencies between teams, particularly where one workstream impacts another.
Facilitate effective communication and collaboration, preventing information gaps, duplicated efforts or missed deadlines.
Hold stakeholders accountable for their deliverables whilst maintaining positive and productive working relationships.
Ensure internal teams remain aligned on client expectations, campaign priorities and overall commercial objectives.
4. Campaign execution and operational oversight
Maintain oversight of operational readiness across all campaign events, ensuring locations, staffing, creative assets, promotional activity and logistics are confirmed.
Work with Students' Union Partnerships to track university approvals, event arrangements and local requirements.
Coordinate with Technology teams to track the development, testing and implementation of event booking and check-in functionality.
Work with Staffing and Delivery teams to ensure appropriate on-site support, student brand ambassadors and operational resources are in place.
Ensure campaign assets, event information and communications are accurate and consistent across all locations.
Maintain visibility of live event delivery, responding quickly to issues and ensuring appropriate contingency plans are in place.
Ensure all activity meets agreed client expectations, ...

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