Senior Creative Project Manager - Brand

About Pleo

Messy spend management is tricky business. And tedious processes are a lose-lose situation for all involved, not just finance. At Pleo, we're changing that. We build spend solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike - with a vision to help all businesses ‘go beyond’.

The word ‘Pleo’ actually means ‘more than you’d expect’, and living by that mantra has been the secret to our success over the last 10 years.

Now, we’re at a pivotal moment in our journey; every move we make has a direct impact on our 40,000+ customers, our business, and our collective success. We need people who take pride in uncovering customer needs, who turn complex problems into simple solutions, challenge the way things are done (respectfully), and always aim high. With great ambitions driving us forward, we can’t say we’ve got this whole thing figured out. And frankly, that’s half the fun! What we can say is that we’re a driven, progressive, and, importantly, a kind bunch of 850+ people from over 100 nationalities, all committed to delivering the future of business spending, together.

About the role

The Creative Production studio team sits squarely within our Brand function working alongside our Brand Foundations team. You will report directly to the Director of Brand Strategy & Experience and join a tight-knit, highly experienced group of project management leads and producers.

In this role, you will lead our internal Creative Production studio team, the execution engine delivering all branded assets across Pleo, including campaign and performance assets, global adaptation and localization, event branding, content marketing, web, socials and lifecycle design. You will balance hands-on delivery with direct people management for a team of three in-house designers and copywriter, ensuring our creative output remains fast, scalable, and sharp across all touchpoints.

Who you’ll be working with and reporting to

Our Brand department is 13 people across two teams: Brand Foundations and Creative Production. You'll lead the four-person Creative Production studio, a senior copywriter, two senior designers and a motion designer, spread across our European offices. Day to day, you'll work alongside a peer project lead on Brand Foundations, a brand strategist, our producers, and internal partners in Events, Lifecycle, Performance Marketing, HR/People Ops and Legal, plus our media agency. Most of the studio's clients are internal teams across Pleo.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Creative Project Manager, you will

Creative Production & Operations

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Studio Ownership: Lead end-to-end execution across all creative production studio work streams, ensuring projects hit quality benchmarks, deadlines, and brand standards. This is also not just intake of brand requests but also spotting opportunities proactively for brand involvement and governance across the business.

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Project Management: Own intake of BAU requests, filtering and assigning work while acting as the bridge between requestors and the studio team. Define scope upfront and ensure the team has what it needs to execute. Contribute to project plans for integrated campaigns and large events and manage Creative studio kick-offs, status reporting, and timeline and milestone tracking.

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Core Output Focus: Oversee production for high-performing marketing assets, market localization and adaptations, event branding, and content marketing.

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Process & Integration: Partner closely with peer project leads, producers, and the Brand Foundations team to streamline intake briefs, cross-team handoffs, and resource sharing.

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Global Asset Delivery: Manage asset adaptation frameworks to keep our brand consistent across different regions and channels.

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Capacity Planning: Own and manage resourcing across internal teams and freelance support, balancing capacity against demand and prioritizing against business needs when demands compete.

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External agency partnerships: Serve as the lead creative point of contact for asset production with our media agency. Manage sprint-style monthly asset delivery in response to agency and internal performance team briefs, keeping output aligned with the media plan. Review final creative placements across Meta and LinkedIn to ensure assets display correctly on paid channels.

People Management & Leadership

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Direct Management: Line manage, mentor, and foster career growth for a cross-functional team of three in-house designers and one copywriter overseeing their daily priorities and bandwidth.

Stakeholder Alignment & Strategy

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Cross-Functional Partner: Serve as the strategic operational bridge connecting the studio with Marketing, Events, HR/People Ops, and Legal.

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Leadership Alignment: Work closely with the Director of Brand Strategy & Experience and Associate Director of Brand Management to align studio output with broader brand goals and business priorities.

We launched our new brand in September, so this is a moment to build. The studio has the basics in place, but intake, briefing, project tracking and resourcing are still early. You'll set the ways of working that the studio runs on, and we'd love you to bring AI into how we plan, brief and produce.

What you bring

You'll thrive in this role if you have

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In-House Brand Experience: Minimum 5-7 years of work experience. Solid background working in-house in a fast-paced brand function (tech, scale-up, or high-growth environment).

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People Leadership: Direct experience line-managing creative talent (designers/artworkers) based remotely in different offices in Europe with an empathetic, growth-oriented approach.

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Production Scope: Broad familiarity managing workflows across digital performance, multi-market localization, physical/virtual events, AI creative production, and employer branding.

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Culture Driver: Thrives in a peer environment working alongside other motivated and constructive senior PMs, producers, creatives, and strategists.

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Operational Skills: Mastery of modern project management tooling and AI-powered workflows (e.g. Asana, Notion, Jira, Slack).

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Project Management Experience: Strong hands-on project management experience in a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment, running multiple projects concurrently. Comfortable not just initiating projects, but staying a consistent presence throughout: managing delivery, and reassessing priorities and capacity as needs shift.

Why is this role a good fit for you

This role is a good fit for you if

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You love day-to-day production and get a kick out of turning an event brief into finished collateral within a week.

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You want to build how a studio works, from intake to resourcing, as much as you want to ship the work.

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You enjoy leading creatives, giving them clear briefs and keeping the work grounded in what the business needs.

This role is not a good fit for you if

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You mainly want to work on big brand campaigns. We run around two a year, and they're produced with an external agency. The studio adapts those assets, but most of the work is events, performance creative and BAU requests.

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You prefer a predictable, planned workload. Last-minute requests are part of life on Brand.

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You haven't line-managed people yet. Direct people management of the studio team is a core part of this role.

How you’ll develop in this role

In your first 6 months at Pleo, you'll

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Deliver the studio's day-to-day work to our speed and quality standards, in line with the new brand guidelines.

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Set best practice for how the studio takes in, briefs, tracks and resources work.

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Improve how we estimate and plan capacity, using AI where it makes sense.

The location

Please note: We can hire on a remote, hybrid or in-person set-up in any of the locations listed on the advert but you will need to be physically based in the country of your choice with a valid right to work. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role in any of the listed locations.

Show me the benefits!

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Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)

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Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office

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