Editorial Project Manager 6 Month FT Contract
About The Role
The Telegraph is a digital-first subscriptions business continuing its transformation from its print heritage. Within Editorial, this means continuously evolving our organisational design, processes and ways of working to better serve subscribers and strengthen our position as a leading digital news provider in the UK and overseas territories.
Reporting to the Strategic Project Manager and working closely with members of the Editorial team, the Editorial Project Manager will support the delivery of transformation initiatives within Editorial.
The role is responsible for managing defined projects or workstreams within the agreed transformation plan. This includes developing detailed delivery plans, coordinating cross-functional teams, tracking progress against milestones and proactively managing risks and issues.
While overall strategic direction, prioritisation and senior stakeholder alignment sit with the Strategic Project Manager, this role is accountable for ensuring disciplined execution and day-to-day delivery of assigned initiatives, helping to translate strategic objectives into practical and measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate high-level objectives into clear, structured delivery plans
- Manage day-to-day execution and coordination of tasks
- Track milestones, dependencies and benefits, providing regular and accurate updates
- Proactively identify risks and issues, recommending solutions and escalating where required
- Work closely with delivery teams to maintain momentum and accountability
- Liaise with other departments to ensure actions are progressed
- Develop strong working knowledge of the subject matter to support informed recommendations
- Prepare materials and updates for stakeholder discussions and governance forums
- Apply proportionate project management tools and methods, supporting rapid and effective change
- Support early-stage scoping activity led by the Editorial Strategic Project Manager
- Help surface interdependencies and sequencing considerations
- Build strong working relationships across the business to support effective delivery
Key Skills
- Experience delivering projects or workstreams, even if not in a formal project management role
- Strong organisational and coordination skills
- Structured, analytical thinking
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment
- Clear and confident written and verbal communication
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships
- Pragmatic, solutions-focused approach
- Resilient and adaptable when plans evolve
- Ability to track progress, manage risks and escalate issues appropriately
- Experience within the media sector (desirable)
- Experience delivering commercial projects (desirable)
- Recognised project management qualification (desirable)
- Exposure to agile, continuous improvement or process optimisation methodologies
Our benefits
The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Training and development
With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.
Our commitment to inclusion
At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.
To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.