Project Manager

About the Role The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating and controlling projects from brief through delivery. The role ensures that scope, timelines, resources, dependencies, risks and stakeholder expectations are actively managed across creative and production workflows.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage projects from intake and kick-off through completion and closure.
- Review briefs and ensure scope, deliverables, timelines and requirements are clearly understood.
- Build and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones and delivery trackers.
- Coordinate activities across Account Management, Creative, Production, Design, Quality Control and other delivery teams.
- Coordinate resources in line with project priorities, skills and available capacity.
- Track project status and ensure actions, approvals and dependencies are followed through.
- Identify risks, delays, capacity constraints and bottlenecks early and escalate appropriately.
- Manage changes to scope, timelines and priorities through clear governance.
- Facilitate project kick-offs, status reviews and delivery discussions.
- Maintain clear communication between stakeholders and delivery teams.
- Ensure work moves efficiently through defined workflow stages and approval points.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, reporting and decision logs.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency and resource utilisation.

Skills & Experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills,



with the ability to interpret briefs and coordinate feedback.
- Relevant project management experience within an agency, marketing, creative or production environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing integrated creative or production projects across print and digital.
- Robust planning, organisation, prioritisation and follow-through.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and changing priorities.
- Working understanding of creative, artwork, print and digital production workflows.
- Experience managing scope, timelines, risks, issues, dependencies and approvals.
- Strong stakeholder management and escalation capability.
- Experience using project or work management platforms.
- Ability to support resource and capacity planning in a delivery environment.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.

Candidate Profile A structured and proactive project manager who creates clarity, drives accountability and keeps multidisciplinary work moving while balancing delivery discipline with the flexibility required in a creative production environment.

Good to Have

- Experience working across multiple brands, markets or regions.
- Exposure to financial tracking, purchase orders, estimates or budget reconciliation.
- Formal project management training or certification such as PRINCE2, PMP, Agile or Scrum.
- Experience with workflow optimisation, reporting dashboards or process improvement initiatives.

📌 Project Manager (Karnataka)
🏢 dentsu
📍 Karnataka