Marketing Project Manager

Role: Marketing Project Manager
Location: Birmingham / Hybrid
Salary: Up to £42,000 Pro Rata
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract for 6 months

Overview

Keystream is supporting a leading national tourism and destination marketing organisation in the search for a Marketing Project Manager to join their Global Marketing team on a 6-month fixed-term basis.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Project Manager with a background in marketing, content delivery, digital projects or campaign operations to play a key role in coordinating complex content programmes across domestic and international markets.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of a major website auto-translation initiative alongside wider content marketing projects, working across multiple teams, agencies and stakeholders to ensure activity is delivered on time, within budget and to a high standard.

The Opportunity

As Marketing Project Manager, you'll work closely with senior marketing leaders, content specialists, digital teams and external suppliers to turn strategic priorities into clear delivery plans and successful outcomes.

You'll be responsible for coordinating project plans, managing risks and dependencies, tracking delivery against milestones and ensuring teams remain aligned across a complex and fast-paced environment. The role combines traditional project management disciplines with stakeholder engagement, content planning and operational delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage marketing and content projects from initiation through to delivery
• Create and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones and reporting
• Coordinate delivery across internal teams, agencies and suppliers
• Support the delivery of a website auto-translation programme
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, budgets and decision logs
• Facilitate project meetings and ensure actions are tracked through to completion
• Maintain visibility of workloads, priorities and delivery timelines
• Produce clear status reports and stakeholder updates
• Ensure content activity is coordinated across digital, social, PR and related channels
• Identify opportunities to improve ways of working, governance and delivery processes
• Build strong working relationships across marketing, digital, commercial and operational teams

Essential Experience

We're interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams
• Strong planning, organisation and delivery management skills
• Experience delivering projects to agreed timescales and budgets
• Ability to manage risks, dependencies and competing priorities
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management capability
• Experience coordinating internal teams, agencies or third-party suppliers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working in matrix organisations and influencing without direct authority
• Understanding of marketing, content marketing, campaign delivery or digital communications environments
• Experience working within public sector communications or similar regulated environments would be highly advantageous

About You

You'll be:

• Proactive, organised and delivery-focused
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously
• Confident building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• A pragmatic problem-solver who can remove obstacles and keep projects moving
• Calm under pressure and able to adapt to changing priorities
• Collaborative and comfortable working across multidisciplinary teams
• Focused on continuous improvement and delivering high-quality outcomes

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of the tourism, destination marketing or international marketing sectors
• Experience supporting website delivery, localisation or translation projects
• Exposure to digital content, website or marketing operations environments

Location & Working Pattern

This role offers a hybrid working model with Birmingham as the primary office location. Candidates should be based within reasonable commuting distance of Birmingham or London (within approximately 90 minutes travel) and be comfortable attending the office when required, while benefiting from significant flexibility in day-to-day working arrangements.