Project Director

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

JOB PURPOSE

We’re looking for a senior, highly versatile Project Director to support delivery across our market teams. This person will:

• Manage delivery hands-on on one or more key projects for our market teams, ensuring we operate as one integrated team for the client and employ best practice project management.
• Support/consult with other teams in our markets to shape delivery plans and ensure that comprehensive statements of work, plans and setup are in place
• As we grow the Hungary team oversee other Project managers
• Contribute (in partnership with other project managers in our market teams) to developing best practices across Project Management

The Project Director will act as the connective tissue between multiple departments, providing senior-level orchestration, integrated plans, and consistent communication across all workstreams. They must be confident navigating creative and media environments and be able to translate between disciplines to ensure seamless delivery.

This is a client-facing role, working in partnership with the Client Services team to give clients a unified, joined-up agency experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead project management across assigned accounts, ensuring smooth delivery, clear priorities, and alignment between client goals and internal workflows.
• Provide strategic input into account ways of working, resource prioritisation, and overrun management.
• Bring strong understanding of creative and media delivery and be able to optimise how the team works across workstreams.
• Build strong relationships with Client Services, Creative, Design, Media and Production to ensure smooth handovers and collaboration. 
• Proactive in bringing the right people together to unblock work, align decisions, and keep delivery moving - rather than waiting for escalation.
• Partner tightly with Business Directors to spot and resolve project blockers, ensuring delivery success and client satisfaction.
• Create and manage project plans, scopes of work, timelines, and internal and client facing tracker and documentation.
• Monitor account-level pacing, resources, and risks, ensuring issues are escalated and resolved quickly.
• As required mentor and guide Project Managers, contributing to the growth of the PM function.
• Champion best practice in project management, ensuring tools, documentation, and workflows are consistent and efficient.
• Continuously identify operational and WoW friction points and lead changes to improve efficiency, clarity and team workflow.

SKILLS AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 

• Relevant experience leading project delivery on large client projects/programme and leading or guiding other account or project managers
• Extensive experience in a project management role within an agency environment, ideally in creative, media, or production-led accounts.
• Proven experience and a strong understanding of agency workflows (planning, briefing, approval etc) and delivering projects for large multinational clients
• Experience shaping and improving ways of working across teams, with the confidence to recommend and implement operational changes. Ability to balance strategic oversight with a hands-on approach.
• Proven track record of managing complex multi-discipline projects from planning to delivery.
• Strong financial acumen and experience managing scopes, budgets, and forecasts.
• A naturally proactive communicator who anticipates needs, surfaces risks early and drives clarity across teams. Ability and experience in stakeholder management. 
• Proficient with project management and workflow tools (including Google Suite), with the ability to quickly learn, adapt to, and confidently use new systems as they evolve.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Excellent communication (fluent English) and stakeholder management skills; able to influence clients and internal leaders.
• Confidence operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and turning complexity into clear direction.
• Highly organised, calm under pressure, and experienced in managing senior cross-functional teams.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset - able to spot risks early and navigate teams through challenges.

WE OFFER

• Hybrid working policy
• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021.
• Awesome clients. Whether big, small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with all of them. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

WHY DEPT®?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION 

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.