Contract Description
Project Manager – Meptik EMEA
Role: Project Manager, Meptik EMEA
Department: Customer Excellence
Location: London
Reports into: Director of Project Management (US, Atlanta based)
Type: Contractor/Freelancer
About the role
Meptik are looking for an experienced, full-time Project Manager to join our expanding team. This position will sit within Meptik (a Disguise business), and also the Global Disguise organisation.
The Project Manager will have solid client facing Project Management experience; managing complex client facing projects of $5M+, across multiple time zones.
This person will work alongside internal technical and creative teams, as well as managing 3rd party vendors.
The Project Manager will bring experience of managing technical projects (including Hardware Installation) within a creative environment, to ensure some of our most exciting virtual production projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to budget.
What you will do
- Responsible for managing multiple, complex external client-facing projects with budgets around $5M+
- Develop and implement detailed project schedules, work plans and project budgets
- Partner with internal teams to define project scope and objectives
- Manage resourcing for projects; allocating and scheduling resources including human capital and equipment based on organisational priorities and project requirements
- Manage and report project progress, performance and risks
- Client management; comfortable being a point of contact for all project stakeholders. Able to handle, escalate and resolve issues
- Stakeholder management (3rd party vendors, partners, rental companies, internal technical teams, creative teams, sales and support teams)
- Ensure strong & clear communication between all parties in a given project
Experience we are looking for
- Experience implementing complex technical projects for large hardware installations
- Experience managing multiple technical client facing projects concurrently, to budget and on time
- Experience managing, creating and monitoring project budgets around $5M
- Experience developing, delivering and managing project plans, risk & issues, task scheduling, and change control
- Experience handling resource management for projects including allocating, scheduling and analysing resource utilisation
- Experience managing and communicating with multiple stakeholders including 3rd party vendors, clients and internal technical and creative teams
- Experience using project management software such as smartsheet resource manager and Jira
- Experience working in a Creative-Tech Industry (such as Production or Live Event Installation)
Behaviours and values
- You will have clear and proactive communication to interact with clients, 3rd party vendors and internal teams across multiple time zone
- You will have a positive, can-do attitude
- You will enjoy problem solving in order to manage resources and overcome project issues
- You will be innovative and forward thinking in order to manage risks, increase productivity and efficiency
- You will be nimble with ̎no ego̎
- You will have the ability to remain calm under pressure when dealing with complex time critical issues
- You will have excellent attention to detail, to enable governance and project processes
- Ability to travel both to Atlanta to spend time with the Meptik Project Team (roughly twice a year) and on client site within EMEA (roughly 5-9 times per year up to a week at a time)
About Meptik and Disguise
Meptik is the one-stop shop for bridging realities.
We help our clients build their next virtual production powerhouse, fuel it with stunning virtual sets, deliver in-camera visual effects on set, and create immersive audience experiences.
As one of the most experienced teams in the industry, we have the creative vision and, as part of Disguise, access to the latest Emmy-award-winning tech to help clients Upset Reality™. We've done it for big and small productions, corporate clients, major film studios, broadcasts, and live events.
Clients can work with us throughout their entire creative journey, or let us be part of their next visual masterpiece.
Meptik came into the Disguise offerings in 2022.
Who we are:
Meptik builds mind-blowing experiences from start to finish. With our mission to Upset Reality™, we marry the creative & technical to do more immersive storytelling, create unique visual environments, and engage audiences with something they've never seen before. And since every great project starts with a great brief, for Meptik, it was this: Hire great talent. Trust them. And leave the egos at the door.
- Growth opportunities Our team is constantly growing and expanding into multiple locations. And as a disguise company, we are part of an even larger network with multiple teams across the globe.
- Team culture We've cultivated a team of hardworking, humble, fun and incredibly talented, passionate individuals who bring out the best in each other and the unique projects they create.
- Become part of the future At Meptik, we pride ourselves on doing things that haven't been done before. When working with us, you become part of a forward-thinking, boundary-busting team.
- Industry & Community Leader We're continuously involved with local community chapters to train individuals on the future of content production.
All the realities. None of the B.S.
We take pride in building our business and establishing ourselves as leaders in the industry with a company culture that exemplifies our values in everything we do, from employee experience to customer relationships and every decision in between.
- No ego: we are the sum total of all of us and no one person is better than another
- Honest: do the right thing in every situation for each other and for our clients
- Passionate: about furthering our craft and dreaming of new frontiers
- Dedicated: to Meptik as a company and a culture
- Excellence: we strive to be the best in every area while always exhibiting professionalism
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