Campaign Manager

About the Company

We are a global creative agency operating across sport, gaming, and entertainment, built on a model that is distinctive within the industry.

At the heart of our approach is a worldwide network of over 11,000 influential fans and cultural tastemakers. This community provides real-time insight into audience behaviours, passions, and emerging trends, enabling us to create work that sits at the forefront of culture.

By listening closely to fan communities, we help brands solve complex challenges, maximise the value of their sport and entertainment partnerships, and ultimately create campaigns that resonate deeply and lead cultural conversation.

Role Overview

As Campaign Manager, you will play a key role in planning and delivering integrated brand campaigns. You will lead and support campaign execution, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to a consistently high creative standard. This role requires strong project management capability, clear communication, and the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders to keep campaigns running smoothly.

Department: Client Services
Reports to: Campaign Director
Location: Manchester

Key Responsibilities

Campaign Coordination & Execution

• Support the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, complex integrated marketing campaigns, ensuring key milestones are achieved.

• Own and manage the full delivery of smaller integrated campaigns.

• Assist in managing timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure campaigns remain on track.

• Coordinate across creative, production, strategy, and media teams to ensure seamless execution and effective resourcing.

• Develop a strong understanding of departmental responsibilities and agency-wide processes, actively driving best practice across all projects.

• Work closely with senior client service leads to strengthen client relationships and build confidence in campaign delivery.

• Present creative concepts, strategic thinking, and insights to clients alongside agency colleagues.

Client & Stakeholder Support

• Act as a day-to-day client contact, providing regular updates and ensuring clear, consistent communication.

• Support senior leadership in managing external partners, talent, agencies, and internal teams.

• Assist with campaign reporting, status updates, and post-campaign analysis.

Project & Budget Management

• Own and maintain detailed project timelines, ensuring all deadlines and deliverables are met.

• Support overall budget tracking, flagging risks or potential overspend and identifying efficiencies.

• Take ownership of specific budget areas, ensuring spend remains controlled and scope creep is minimised.

• Identify and escalate potential project risks to senior stakeholders.

Creative & Strategic Collaboration

• Work closely with creative teams to ensure outputs align with brand guidelines and campaign objectives.

• Support strategic planning by helping integrate audience insights and data into campaign development.

• Ensure all deliverables remain aligned with the overarching creative vision.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 3 years' experience in campaign or project management within a creative, marketing, or advertising agency.

• Strong understanding of integrated marketing campaigns, including digital, social, experiential, and content production.

• Excellent organisational and communication skills with strong attention to detail.

• Proven ability to lead internal teams through campaign delivery.

• Confident in guiding clients through the campaign process.

• Comfortable managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

• Proactive, solutions-focused team player.

• A genuine passion for sport, gaming, or wider culture is essential.

Sphere Digital Recruitment currently have a variety of job opportunities across digital so feel free to get in touch with us to find out how we can help you. Please take a look at our website.

Sphere is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications regardless of ethnic origin, race, religious beliefs, age, disability, gender or sexual orientation, and any other protected status as required by applicable law.

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