Senior Pitch Project Manager (With Ad Agency Background)

The role

The Senior Pitch Project Manager runs the creative and production process for global pitches from brief to final submission. You will manage multiple concurrent pitches, build plans, manage resources, and align senior stakeholders.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end project management of global pitches from initial brief to final submission.
• Manage multiple concurrent pitches across different disciplines and time zones.
• Follow and implement defined project management and production processes.
• Maintain and improve pitch management tools, templates and workflows.
• Close off each pitch with final documentation, financial reconciliation and a debrief.
• Manage the scoping, costing and planning of each pitch with creative and strategy teams.
• Create detailed project plans, timelines and resource schedules.
• Identify stakeholders and create a communication plan.
• Identify risks, dependencies and blockers and maintain risk registers.
• Manage pitch budgets including cost estimation, purchase orders, invoicing and reconciliation.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years managing projects successfully in an agency, in-house studio or new business environment.
• Experience owning pitch processes end-to-end.
• Experience managing project-level production budgets.
• Sufficient familiarity with creative and production workflows.
• Advanced use of Gen AI tools to improve workflow efficiency and output quality.
• Experience designing AI-assisted workflows for a team.
• Proficiency with project management platforms such as Monday.com, Asana or Smartsheet.
• Fluency in Google Workspace and/or Microsoft 365, plus Zoom and Teams.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Nice to have

• Additional language skills relevant to the African continent
• Formal degrees

About the company

Brandtech+ (formerly known as OLIVER+) is a global team of creative thinkers, tech-savvy trendsetters, and production pros specialising in film, CGI, automation, AI, motion design, and digital/print content. They are part of The Brandtech Group.