Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager
Department: Beano Brain
Reporting to: Group Director – UK Qual
Location: Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, or London, UK
Ways of Working: Hybrid; 1 day a week plus a few days a month in London, UK
Contract Type: Permanent

Beano Brain, a leading kid, youth and family insights agency, is hiring for a Project Manager to join the team in our any one of our Dundee, Glasgow, or London offices with 1 day a month in our London office. Beano Brain is part of the DC Thomson media and publishing company.  

Beano Brain is a team of collaborators who balance being supportive and transparent with rebel thinking. While fostering a non-hierarchical environment where team members take initiative and aren’t afraid to challenge each other’s thinking, Beano Brain gives everyone on the team a voice.

No two days are the same at Beano Brain! The Project Manager will lead the delivery of complex, multi‑stream projects that are critical to commercial growth, operational resilience and transformation across a portfolio business. This an opportunity for a talented Project Manager to make their mark by introducing and implementing a new Project Management tool to the business.

The successful candidate will ensure projects are delivered to agreed outcomes with pace, tight control and clear accountability in an environment where margins, customer expectations and market conditions are challenging. 

The Project Manager brings disciplined project leadership, cross‑functional coordination and evidence‑based decision‑making into a business moving to a skills‑based, outcome‑driven model. It ensures project teams work to a shared plan, remove blockers early, manage risk and dependency, and use data, insight and feedback loops to deliver value and adjust quickly to external pressures. 

The Project Manager operates across multiple brands, functions and product lines in the portfolio. It covers digital, technology, data, commercial and operational change projects. It manages external partners, suppliers and delivery contractors where required. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing and developing a team of 4 people
• Senior administrative overview of all commercial projects, managing timelines, budgets, 3rd party contracts and their costs, and overseeing the recruitment team in the field
• Deliver project outcomes to agreed scope, time, cost and quality 
• Ensure all projects follow a clear plan, have measurable outcomes and deliver defined commercial or operational value
• Maintain rigorous governance, risk and dependency control
• Run disciplined governance cycles. Identify risks and dependencies early, ensure actions are owned and resolved quickly and escalate only when required
• Drive cross‑functional alignment and unblock delivery teams 
• Create clarity across functions, ensure teams understand their role and deliverables and remove blockers to maintain delivery pace
• Improve project delivery performance across the portfolio 
• Apply repeatable best practice, use data to measure performance and feed learnings into future delivery. Promote collaboration and shared standards
• Manage supplier and partner performance 
• Ensure external partners deliver to contractual expectations. Track performance, control costs and drive accountability
• Ensure outcomes are embedded and benefits realised 
• Confirm that handover, adoption, training, process changes and performance measures are in place so project outcomes are sustained