Senior Project & Production Manager

Senior Project & Production Manager

Division: Time Out Media
Location: Covent Garden, London (Hybrid 3 days in-office, 2 days remote)
Reporting to: Head of Production & Project Management

Role overview

The Senior Project & Production Manager is a key delivery lead within the Creative Solutions team. You’ll take integrated commercial ideas and make them real, on time, on budget and to a high standard across digital, social and experiential.

You’re confident with clients, calm under pressure and great at turning moving parts into a simple plan, you’ll lead by example, supporting the wider project management team when needed.

What you’ll do

• Own end-to-end delivery of campaigns: scope, timelines, resources, risks, QA and wrap reporting

• Run campaign finances: budgets, P&Ls, margin control, supplier costs, PO/invoicing hygiene

• Partner closely with Creative Strategists and Sales to translate creative into delivery plans

• Work with the Head of Commercial Content to deliver custom content (digital, print, video, experiential and more)

• Manage internal and external production partners (design, content, photographers, videographers, talent, venues etc.)

• Plan, coordinate, and attend shoots, managing schedules, logistics, and on-site requirements to support efficient production delivery.

• Lead client status meetings and keep stakeholders aligned (including clear action logs and next steps)

• Own the feedback and approvals process, managing amends, maintaining quality and meeting timeline deadlines

• Coordinate launch and live delivery, including scheduling/publishing across digital and social where required

• Track performance and delivery metrics with Strategists, ensuring post-campaign reporting is clean and useful

• Improve how we work: templates, process, team ways-of-working, smarter resourcing

• Join occasional brainstorms to stress-test feasibility early (before ideas hit decks)

What you’ll bring

• Significant experience delivering multi-platform content / commercial campaigns in a fast-paced media environment

• A strong track record of shipping campaigns that are well-managed and well-made

• Experience working in both branded content and events

• Solid understanding of cross-platform commercial delivery (particularly digital + social + experiential)

• Confident client handling: you can lead meetings, manage expectations, and hold firm on scope

• Great relationship builder internally (editorial, design, sales) and externally (agencies, suppliers)

• Strong budgeting instincts: you understand margin, cost control, and how to protect quality without overspend

• Organised, decisive and unflappable - you can run multiple campaigns at once without things slipping

• A “see it, own it, fix it” mindset

Nice to have

• Line management or mentoring experience

• Experience with production workflows for video and social-first formats

• Familiarity with ad ops / paid social trafficking

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

Time Out Group is a leading global media and hospitality business that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city.

It all began in London in 1968 when Time Out helped people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the capital. Since then, this iconic brand has consistently maintained its status as the go-to source of inspiration for both locals and visitors alike. Today, it is the only global brand – with a local voice – dedicated to city life.

Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market – which are highly synergistic – the Company helps its large audience go out in the world's greatest cities with its curated content and experiences, and connects global brands as well as local talents with this valuable audience.

Time Out Media’s multiple digital and physical channels span websites, mobile, social media, videos, newsletters and Live Events. Across these channels, Time Out distributes its high-quality content – created and curated by a global team of local experts – around the best food, drinks, culture, art, music, theatre, travel and entertainment in over 350 cities and over 50 countries. The Company is monetising this global reach and its strong traffic from a desirable audience by offering bespoke 360-degree multichannel advertising solutions to international, national and local brands and businesses. Since its launch in 1968, Time Out has become a global brand that advertisers and consumers love and trust.

Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, leveraging the Time Out brand to bring the best of the city together under one roof: its best chefs, drinks and cultural experiences – based on the editorial curation Time Out has always been known for. The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in Lisbon, quickly becoming one of the city's most popular destinations. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion and there are currently 13 open Markets: in addition to Lisbon, there are sites in New York (in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood and in Manhattan's Union Square), Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Dubai, Cape Town, Porto, Barcelona, Bahrain, Osaka and Budapest. More Time Out Market locations are in the pipeline as the global expansion continues.

Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the world’s greatest cities, the people enjoying them and the businesses in them. As a truly global team we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Cape Town and Sydney and beyond. It’s our expertise, authenticity and collaboration that make us successful and a unique team.