Senior Marketing Project Manager

Please note: This role requires fluency in German This is an 11-month maternity cover role, with potential for extension subject to business needs and successful performance in the position.

What we are looking for 

At tmp, our Senior Marketing Project Manager lead relationships, inspire teams, and help our clients achieve results that matter. We’re looking for someone with a passion for marketing and a drive to create impact, with a vested interest in internal mentorship. 

This role is critical to the success and health of our client partnerships. You’ll be the trusted advisor who translates client goals into campaigns that embody a real wow factor. You’ll balance strategic thinking with day-to-day delivery, ensuring every project runs smoothly, every brief hits the mark, and every opportunity to grow is seized. 

What you will do

Client management and leadership 

• Be the heartbeat of the client relationship by providing clear, consistent, and timely communication in real-time.  

• Lead on regular communication to provide real-time updates on day-to-day activities. 

• Lead meetings, provide reporting that includes updates on the work, timelines and budgets, remain proactive in resolving any blockers or risks. 

• Drive briefing calls to capture client requirements and reporting needs. 

• Facilitate effective feedback discussions both verbally and in writing, distribute and follow up on action points to ensure issues, challenges or blockers are resolved in a timely manner. 

• Build strong relationships with clients through articulating marketing thinking, being a trusted partner and managing their expectations.

Program management 

• Represent your client’s brand, strategy, and objectives internally to give your team the proper context to succeed. 

• Rally the right team members to align on shared responsibilities, processes, resourcing, and delivery tasks to bring campaigns to life.  

• Lead the creation of briefs and kickoff meetings that inspire confidence and set the tone for delivery. 

• Keep client work moving smoothly by spotting risks early, organizing schedules, setting sharp actions, and driving accountability. 

• Review work with a critical but constructive eye, ensuring quality and alignment with client goals. 

• Review and monitor campaign results, identifying key insights to inform future activity. 

Commercial management 

• Create accurate, commercially sound project estimates, quotes, and statements of work. 

• Be accountable for the financial administration of your projects including POs, invoices, forecast data, and reporting. 

• Track budgets, timelines, and profitability of your projects timely and with diligence. 

• Mitigate any commercial risks and find smarter, more efficient ways of working. 

• Champion delivery that balances client impact with sustainable profitability. 

Marketing strategy 

• Get an understanding of your clients’ business, industry and challenges.

• Translate insights into recommendations on marketing solutions that sharpen strategy and elevate outcomes while still delivering on the business objectives of your clients. 

• Share best practices and success stories across your account team to inspire success. 

• Continuously seek ways to optimize campaign activity, improve outcomes and quality of work. 

Business development 

• Proactively spot new areas where tmp can add value to client accounts through expanding our scope.

• Collaborate with your Account Director to identify where tmp can have a greater impact and lead the way to turn those opportunities into action. 

• Build and nurture enduring relationships by deepening trust with current clients and cultivating alumni networks that keep tmp top of mind well beyond a single project. 

Mentorship 

• Delegate with intention, creating opportunities for junior team members to take ownership and grow in confidence. 

• Provide clear, constructive feedback and ongoing coaching that helps elevate both the work and the people behind it. 

• Act as a role model, setting high standards while guiding others on how to meet them. 

Success is measured by 

• Team feedback: your project team have clear direction and are clear on what they are doing. 

• Client feedback 

• Project profitability 

• Accuracy and stability of delivery in line with plans: maintaining accurate forecasting across your projects. 

• Accuracy of project finances.

Requirements

Who you are 

• An experienced project manager, that is ready to take the next step with a desire to grow and excel in your career. 

• Positive and resilient, with the ability to anticipate challenges and move through them with vigor and solutions. You inspire confidence in both clients and colleagues. 

• Effective communicator that is clear, compelling, and confident. You can simplify complexity to influence stakeholders. 

• Pragmatic yet ambitious; you are able to balance logical decision-making while having the courage to share your own point of view to challenge thinking and raise the bar 

• Prone to curiosity and always asking questions, listening deeply, and turning insight into actionable solutions. 

• You have a creative spark and are ready to bring energy and fresh ideas to every project.  

• Highly organized and able to prioritise your own workload when managing multiple clients and projects at a given time. 

• You have a mentorship mentality. You are eager to support and coach, those around you while being strong in your ability to delegate where appropriate. 

What you will need

• 2-3 years of strong, demonstrable experience in marketing project management, ideally in a B2B or agency environment. 

• History of providing delivery on successful marketing campaigns in response to business and client challenges. 

• Operational understanding of how integrated marketing campaigns are built and delivered. 

• Hands-on experience leading and coordinating cross-discipline teams (for example - asset production, strategy, creative, data, and media) and guiding them to successful delivery. 

• Proven ability to manage client and partner relationships with multiple stakeholders, budgets, and timelines. 

• Confidence in communicating at Manager and Director levels. 

• Experience with commercial management, such as estimating costs, scopes, and budgets. 

• Proficient with account and project management tools, methodologies, and processes. 

• Proficient with IT tools (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), with the ability to pick up new systems quickly.  

• Languages skills: German C1 level, English B2 level 

As an employee of The Marketing Practice, we expect you to remain up to date with information security training and policies, and the company policies set out in your contract. For management roles, this includes ensuring members of your team undertake relevant training and adhere to company policies. 

Benefits

What we offer you:

An international team with colleagues from Germany, the UK, the USA, and Australia – friendly, open, and helpful. 33 vacation days, a job ticket or Wellpass, company pension plan, and a 37.5-hour week that you can arrange flexibly. Our office right by the Isartor in Munich is modern, centrally located, and dog-friendly. And because we believe in genuine trust, we work hybrid: You decide when it's office time and when working from home is more convenient. Sounds good? Then let's get to know each other!