Freelance Project Manager

• Freelance Project Manager
• Brand Design & Packaging
• Hybrid: 3 days per week in our Bishopsgate office, London
• Contract: 3 months | Start: ~27th July 2026About Future
• Brand
• We're Future
• Brand, the flagship branding agency within the multi-award-winning global advertising agency network Omnicom.25 years young with a head full of big brand experience and a gaze fixed firmly on the future, our work over the last two decades has changed the brand landscape today.
• What we do next will change tomorrow.
• We're based in some of the most exciting and vibrant cities on the planet, balancing global scale with cultural connection.
• That means we're on the doorstep of many of the world's biggest brands, and within reach of the very best talent around.

Together, we are a diverse brand, experience and design community who believe that brand is how a company's people, products and services behave wherever and whenever they show up in the world. Our work focuses on measuring and maximizing brand behaviour by connecting corporate purpose with everyday lived experience.

It's through this work that we deliver our purpose: To transform the future of businesses by changing how their brands behave today. And because we believe strongly that the future our brands create must be a future for us all, our shared values - Progressive, Adaptable, Collaborative and Empowering - put difference and diversity at our core.

The role

We're seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead a complex, high-volume tobacco and tobacco-adjacent brand design account. You'll manage multiple projects simultaneously, coordinate with stakeholders, control budgets and timelines, and maintain our commitment to excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate the day-to-day running of multiple projects for a major tobacco and tobacco-adjacent account
• Collaborate with stakeholders to review objectives and translate requirements into project plans and creative briefs
• Plan, cost and manage projects in coordination with external suppliers
• Control project timelines, budgets, and coordinate the team with a solutions-based attitude
• Adhere to strict processes, maintain project timetables, and escalate risks proactively
• Provide support to Project Directors including client reporting and resourcing

What We're Looking For

• Essential:
• Advanced Project Management skills with strong financial acumen and organisational ability
• Previous project management experience with a brand design agency – packaging and brand design experience compulsory
• Proven comfort and experience working on tobacco and tobacco-adjacent brand design projects
• Knowledge and experience of design, creative and production processes
• Commercial awareness and ability to propose solutions quickly
• Desirable:
• Proficiency with Float, Smartsheets or Screendragon
• Equal Opportunities
• We believe that ideas get better when they are inherently diverse and shared in highly inclusive ways and we want to hear from those who think differently from us. We truly believe in the strength of diversity and the richness it can bring.
• By bringing different people together great things happen.

FutureBrand is an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

FutureBrand is a disability-confident committed employer and will guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets the minimum criteria for the role. Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications, we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme. If you have a disability, we want everyone to feel at ease when going through our recruitment process.

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