Mid-Weight Creative Project Manager, OVO
£35-42.6k
Eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Job no longer available
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£35-42.6k
Eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for a brilliant Mid-Weight Creative Studio Project Manager to join OVO’s in house Creative Studio. You should be a great teammate, capable of building strong relationships with cross-functional partners, designers, and copywriters
- This role requires a background in creative delivery, ideally with either in-house or agency experience
- Experience in client services, delivering event collateral and production for video or photography is a real plus
- You’ll need excellent communication skills, a love for getting great work delivered, a passion for creativity and an eye for detail
- We're seeking an individual who brings contagious energy and positivity to the team and is inspired by OVO's zero carbon journey with its customers
- Are content juggling multiple things at once! From numerous briefs, resource requirements, process optimisation and scoping conversations
- Can balance quick turnaround work with longer lead briefs - we work across briefs of all shapes and sizes
- Have a passion for creative work and delivering efficiently - we love the work we create, but we also love to try and make things as efficient and effective as possible
- Get a thrill from problem solving - things come up, they always do! So we have to come up with creative solutions to problems regularly
- Are comfortable with the unknown or changeable - we work to plans and pipelines where possible, but things evolve and change (particularly in our industry) and we have to adapt to that
- Get a kick out of ‘testing and learning’ - sometimes you need to give things a go to see if it will work or not. A testing mindset and desire to continuously improve are vital for success in our team
- Can handle studio data and numbers around resource use and budget burndown
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Lead Creative Delivery Manager
- Your fantastic project management skills will ensure that your studio projects are delivered according to brief, budget, and timelines (as much as you can control!)
- You'll remain calm under pressure, keeping the team composed during tight schedules, and maintain high delivery standards
- Working within OVO’s Creative Studio you’ll be responsible for the delivery of creative and content being produced for OVO, from a wide ranging set of stakeholders
- Examples of the type of output to be delivered includes event collateral like pop-up banners, posters and merchandise, videos, performance marketing and cross channel campaign assets, tailored visuals, illustrations and comms, van wraps, policy documents, engaging customer emails and site content
- Stakeholder management is a huge part of the role, alongside ensuring our internal processes are translated into working practices on your projects
- You’ll always have an eye on opportunities to optimise how we work, and collaborating with PM team mates, to make it happen
- Partner with one or multiple briefing workstreams and be their point of contact for briefing, scoping, management of projects, process improvements and communication. Help manage their studio ‘budget’ and work with them to prioritise their pipeline
- Day-to-day management and guidance of the creative team on your briefs, project progress, resource planning, management and coordination of all project deliverables
- Ensure all processes are upheld & any areas for process development are worked through with the Lead Project Manager
- Deliver BAU Projects as your bread and butter, utilising our internal project management system OVO Creates, for certain areas of the business (to be defined when you join) & special projects based upon objectives / requirements of the business
- Regular check ins with key briefing teams to discuss upcoming briefs, ensuring we have the right resource lined up to deliver them and clarity on what is required from the brief
- Identify and manage stakeholders effectively, anticipating challenges, and developing plans to address risks
- Your key outcomes will be:
- Delivering great creative that answers the brief (and more!)
- To have a ‘one team, one dream’ mentality with the creative studio, ensuring great collaboration and output
- Excellent stakeholder relationships and trust - so you can guide them and manage their requirements in the most efficient way
- Being able to optimise how we work (not just understanding the fundamental processes)
- Within your first 3 months month you’ll:
- Know the creative team and key stakeholders you’re working with
- Having clarity around the set up of the business and how the briefing teams connect
- Have shadowed some of the PM team to understand our key processes and will start to feel confident about delivering BAU briefs
- Have scoped out some briefs independently (whilst having support from a Senior/ Lead PM where needed)Have delivered small to medium scale briefs
- Understand what good looks like (for our creative and briefs)
- Have gotten to grips with our tools and systems at a fundamental level (there will still be lots more to learn!)
- Have a solid understanding of how we report on use of ‘budget’ and brief numbers, and be able to pull your first stakeholder report
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$265.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$265.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $572.5m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Articles
Leadership
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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