Salterbaxter is a Creative, Sustainability Consultancy delivering end-to-end sustainability to expertly navigate from materiality through to reporting and from big strategy visions to detailed goal setting, through brilliant, brave communications. Our  goal is to make sustainability creative, tangible and actionable. Our passion is to deliver big ideas that will inspire the necessary step change for a future in which business and society thrive. 

Our Commitment
Diversity and inclusion is a core part of who we are at Salter Baxter. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group – whatever their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion doesn’t just fuel our creativity and innovation, it brings us closer to our people and audiences. We will continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered and more importantly comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work. As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Groupe UK is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. 

You will be part of the Project Management/Client services team and support the Reporting team across a broad range of projects, mainly focused on sustainability and annual reporting management. You may run small assignments (parts of larger projects) under direction, and will work with other internal teams – sustainability consultancy, designers, production – to deliver client needs.

Role responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with other teams to ensure client and project needs are consistently met with regards to project objectives
• Be responsible for all project-related administration – this includes budgets, scheduling, meeting planning, minutes, follow-up, managing relevant third-parties and service providers, and being three steps ahead of projects at all times!
• Assist with day to day management and delivery of both client and internal projects
• Contribute to and actively engage in internal financial reporting processes
• Work in our Excel finance templates to create budgets, and monitor and track efficiency and profitability
• Demonstrate attention to detail at all times to ensure quality of all project outputs - documentation, proofs and communication
• Deliver high standards of client service at all time - responsive, proactive and professional
• Checking proofs to ensure accuracy throughout each project
• Liaison and coordination of meetings, interviews, etc.
• Provide research and support to the team where needed
• Provide meeting support - note taking, etc. - when required

Previous experience:

• Experience of working in a professional / office environment (can be part-time or work experience)
• Microsoft Office experience (especially Excel, but also PowerPoint and Word)
• Ideally have some experience of project delivery or project management
• Interest in corporate communications and sustainability

Personal qualities and skills:

• Proactive, organised and meticulous - keep promises, meet deadlines and solve problems
• Professional in outlook and a proven team player
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to respond and adapt to a range of situations and contexts
• Ability to work in an agile manner and adapt to changing requests – internally and externally
• Comfortable working in a small and ambitious team within a large agency structure
• Digitally savvy, a plus if active on social channels and passionate about sustainability, brands and communications

Competitive salary and great benefits:

We want to prove that being a consultancy on a big mission isn’t at odds with running a really human business where life outside of work is as thriving and rewarding as everyone’s actual work.

Our work culture, benefits and training programme are all set up to support this.

The guiding principles we lead and work by:

• No Bullshit: Honest, hard thinking must come first. Deep sustainability knowledge and no fluff. We bring expertise, insight and intel to every issue and every challenge. No lazy thinking, no short cuts.
• Creativity with intent: Sustainability needs creativity more than ever - a unique creativity, built on deep knowledge and ambition. Creativity with intent. Creativity to find new solutions to old problems, to make sustainability mainstream and attractive to all audiences.
• Collaboration as an action, not a word: We care and we look out for eachother. We partner for success – with colleagues, with sister agencies, with clients and with stakeholders. We are all in this together and our success comes from collaboration, not competition.

Culture – a buzzword to many, but not to us. We’re dedicated to making our work as enjoyable, balanced and rewarding as possible. 

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with employees being office-based on Mondays and two other days during the working week.

If you have any adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you.

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