Creative Project Manager, Rapha
6 month Fixed-Term Contract
+ A company bonus scheme
4 days a week in office
Cycling apparel brand
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Cycling apparel brand
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ A company bonus scheme
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To inspire the world to live life by bike.
Role
Who you are
- 3–6 years’ experience in creative project management, production or creative operations within an agency or in-house team
- Strong understanding of integrated campaign delivery and workflows across brand, content, social and ecommerce - particularly paid media asset complexity and scaling requirements
- Strong critical path creation and management skills
- Strong budget management and financial reconciliation experience
- Experience managing freelance creative resources and external contributors
- Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through
- Calm under pressure; able to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Experience with project management and creative tools, namely Asana and Figma
What the job involves
- The Creative Project Manager will contribute to this mission by bringing structure, clarity and operational excellence to our brand marketing and creative output — enabling world-class campaigns, content and storytelling to be delivered with precision, pace and accountability
- Own end-to-end project management of campaigns, projects and content initiatives from briefing through to launch
- Build and manage critical paths across cross functional teams including Creative, Brand Marketing, Product Management, Digital, Retail, Wholesale and external partners
- Maintain clear, real-time visibility of campaign status across stakeholders and leadership
- Run the team’s operating cadence (WIP, stand-ups, review gates, action/decision logs)
- Working in partnership with the Brand Manager, define comprehensive, channel-specific asset requirements for each campaign and ensure accurate, on-time creative delivery against all agreed deliverables
- Partner closely with the Digital team and Brand Manager to scope and manage complex asset requirements including multiple formats, cut-downs, versioning and localisation
- Maintain complete oversight of asset production from briefing through to final supply
- Ensure the team receives timely inputs from the business (product info, messaging, channel requirements, specs, approvals)
- Structure reviews so feedback is consolidated, aligned and actionable
- Own briefing templates, project tracking systems, intake processes and deliverables governance
- Manage engagement with external partners and freelancers alongside functional leads
- Help oversee resourcing across Creative, Copy, Content and Design in partnership with functional leads
- Ensure the right people - internal and freelance - are working on the right projects at the right time
- Implement lightweight templates and working practices that stick (not over-engineered process)
- Manage internal campaign and project budgets, including allocation of spend to freelance resources
- Alongside our Producer, help track internal budgets across multiple concurrent campaigns and ensure accurate forecasting and reconciliation
- Escalates scope/timeline trade-offs and cross-functional conflicts to the CCO when decisions are required
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Rapha is a cycling apparel brand that aspires to create items of the highest possible quality by using advanced manufacturing techniques. Having been the clothing supplier to Team Sky, as well as the women’s UCI WorldTour team CANYON//SRAM, Rapha has worked to align itself with the best names in sport.
The company has seen a series of ups and downs as UK consumer interest in cycling rises and falls. For example, it was able to capitalise on peaks in the market generated first in the wake of the 2012 Olympics, as well as during the pandemic - though it has also faced lulls. Despite this, the company remains positive, and says it has made moves that put it in position to unlock its next phase of growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Access to a Global Employee Assistance Programme
- A variety of resources to support your mental health and wellbeing
- Monthly social events
- Quarterly team away days
- Regular talks and events organised by our Culture Club
- Generous annual leave rising with length of service
- Enhanced parental leave options
- Enhanced pension schemes
- Healthcare
- Lessons to build confidence, inspire and support those at the beginning of their cycling journey (you don't need your own bike to take part)
- Annual testing allowance so you can put our products through their paces
- Significant staff discount
- Flexible working - we just have core hours for collaboration and time with out teams
Company HQ
Archway, London, UK
Leadership
Simon Mottram
(Founder & Director)Previously Brand Marketing Consultant at various companies, including Interbrand, Sapient, Circus and Fourth Room.
Fran Millar
(CEO)Previously CEO at Belstaff, INEOS Hygienics and INEOS Grenadiers Cycling Team.
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