Senior Project Manager (Casual)

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Your Role: We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager (Casual) to join The Sun News Video team on a 2-month contract, supporting the delivery of a key editorial and production initiative. Integral to this will be overseeing the setting up, planning and build of a reactionary digital / social-first news studio as well as supporting the creative team in shaping the editorial and talent search, so experience of working with technical teams, ideally within broadcast or video is key.

This role is suited to someone who is comfortable operating hands-on, bringing structure, clarity and pace to delivery while working closely with editorial, production and technical teams. You’ll play a key role in helping the team deliver a high-priority initiative, bringing calm, practical leadership to a fast-moving environment.

Day to day you will:

• Drive delivery from planning through execution, maintaining momentum and clear priorities
• Build and manage timelines, ensuring teams remain aligned and focused on outcomes
• Coordinate across editorial, production and technical stakeholders
• Identify risks early and help remove blockers to keep delivery on track
• Maintain clear communication and visibility of progress across the team
• Support operational planning and delivery across production and studio-based workflows

What we’re looking for from you:

• Proven project or delivery management experience within media, digital or editorial environments
• Comfortable working at pace and adapting to changing priorities
• Confident working directly with senior editorial, production and technical stakeholders
• Able to bring structure without slowing teams down
• Experience working within broadcast, production technology or technically complex media environments would be a strong advantage
• Comfortable stepping into an active delivery environment and quickly embedding within a team

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

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