Strategic Project Manager

We're hiring for a creative and strategic leader to manage high-impact design and marketing projects for a reputed multidisciplinary design studio.

You'll lead cross-functional teams, manage client relationships (founders, CMOs, government), and ensure seamless project execution from brief to delivery.

What We're Looking For:

6–12 years of experience in project management (design or marketing domain preferred)

Strong background in client servicing & stakeholder management

Expertise in project scoping, budgeting, and timeline planning

Proven experience leading creative/design teams

Prior work experience in design studios, marketing/advertising agencies

If you're someone who thrives on structure, creativity, and collaboration — this is for you

JOB DESCRIPTION-

Your job will entail the following broad deliverables:

• Project management
• Business Development
• Support services

You will work under and report directly to the Business Manager at Lopez Design

Project Management-

• Schedule and manage the project with the client team regularly.
• Gather creative briefs from the client and supervise as well as oversee their execution by the design team.
• Deliver project through strategy and design team assigned to the project.
• Managing project planning to completion and client communication for a wide variety of projects - both simple and complex and large and small - independently or as part of a team.
• Participate and assist the team in creating presentations
• Coordinate between all teams to work seamlessly
• Bring a fresh point of view to our client's challenges and ensure the brand image is always ahead of the curve in terms of knowledge, expertise and insight
• Participate and contribute towards Strategy and concept directions and creativity to meet the end goal of a successful project delivered in time at high Lopez Design standards.
• Create weekly reports with your Business manager to the CEO of Lopez Design.
• Gather project status, develop mitigation strategy and hold weekly meetings with the team with the Business manager.
• With high client satisfaction and good relationship management, increase scope and billing or acquire additional projects.
• Ensure billing and payment cycles are maintained as per schedule. Work closely with the Accounts Department to deliver the same.

Business Development-

• Marketing: A large part of Business Development at Lopez Design happens through marketing. This function will require you to strategize on how to market Lopez Design to get the maximum impact. Besides overall strategy, the task will involve making a quarter-wise calendar programme, breaking it down into how each vertical at Lopez Design gets promoted to designing the communication and delivering it across various channels.
• Solicitation of new businesses: with the business manager. Being a key driver behind the process of winning new work, creating opportunities and organising and making pitch meetings. This would broadly involve handling new business communication, creating opportunities, designing and creating strategy of approach, planning bespoke proposal and process making, and sales initiatives for different verticals of Lopez design.
• Client acquisition: This will involve interacting with a client prospect, understanding the brief or requirement, business development with strategy pitches, creating a scope of work and timesheet and creating a detailed proposal. Interact with client prospects and bag the project.
• Newsletter: The task will also involve strategizing the newsletter structure, and planning and delivering the same on a monthly basis.
• Lopez Design website: Coordinate and manage content
• Awards: Shortlist relevant national and international awards Lopez Design should participate in, prepare budgets, design, and deliver the entries.
• Anthony Brand: Promote Anthony as a brand ambassador and principal of Lopez Design. Create a strategy and plan in fructifying the same. This will include, Jury members, Talks, Lectures, workshops, etc.
• For the work above, you will work along with the Business Manager. Also, report to her for planning, progress reporting and delivery. You will also work with the Lopez Design strategy, content and design team to deliver various aspects required. You will assist the Business Manager in creating formal weekly reports to the CEO of Lopez Design.

Support Services-

• Support HR: As part of your involvement with teams and clients, you will be called upon to conduct interviews and coordinate on induction-related support and manage programmes around it.
• Support Administration as and when required in context to projects, facilitating teams, organising transport/tickets, and meeting clients.
• Lopez Design from time to time organises FORUM and mini-conferences at the studio or online. You will need to organise and manage such events along with the Business Manager with support from the rest of the team.

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹1,500, ₹2,000,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

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