Digital Project Manager

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As a Digital Project Manager, you have the responsibility to manage the delivery of concurrent projects within budget, time and quality requirements. You operate with a large degree of autonomy in managing your projects. Key objectives are delivery, quality and business success whilst engendering and promoting a collaborative team focused approach.

Main duties:

* Be part of a high performing team.

* Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders building a rapport and credibility with key people

* Day to day one of your key objectives is to ensure the project management function is aligned to the development process.

* Resolve issues and remove barriers to success

* Follow the project delivery process to ensure standards are kept consistent across all projects

* Management and delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

* Be able to identify the appropriate resource levels required to meet the demands of your projects.

* Ensure projects are managed to protect profitability and change control is in place to manage scope.

* Ensure your projects hit their deadlines in accordance with the planning process and the client brief.

* Produce, manage and communicate project plans.

* Produce and distribute project status reports to clients weekly.

Skills required:

* Minimum of 2 years IT Project Management experience

* Experience of Managing budgets of £200K to - £1m

* Understanding of infrastructure and software development lifecycles, together with a strong Project Management methodology experience.

* Vendor and Supplier Management

* Excellent communication skills in order to conduct and moderate technical exchange workshops with stakeholders

* Strong skills in people management, risk management, process organisation and technical expertise, negotiating and issue resolution capabilities.

* Ability to lead a project using own initiative and working as part of a team.

* Proven ability to build internal and external relationships with key people.

* Proven ability to be part of an effective team.

* A track record of successfully delivering business critical projects or programmes, and a relevant project management qualification (PRINCE2, PMP, AGILE, SCRUM etc) or equivalent experience.

* Experience of managing the full project lifecycle.

* The resilience to overcome issues and drive activity and results.

* Able to think about the business goals whilst maintaining your role as the client advocate.

* Able to engage in and manage negotiations, project issues, risks and opportunities.

* Experience in conflict resolution.

* Comfortable and confident in understanding your role defending scope whilst seeing and developing opportunities for cross-sell and upsell of services.

* Process orientated with a pragmatic approach.

* The management of projects that span multi-disciplinary areas of differing size and complexity to meet business expectations and deliver results.

* 2yrs experience as a project manager in a commercial environment.

* Must be able to demonstrate matrix management of a project team of 3-5 resources.

* Good understanding of website platforms and working knowledge of customer management systems.

* Must be able to demonstrate an intermediate level of understanding of the web from both a production and consumer standpoint.

* Must be able to manage 3-5 concurrent projects/clients.

* Experience of presenting to clients at senior management level.

* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel/Google Spreadsheets.

* Able to produce and manage Gantt charts.

* A good understanding of what it takes to maintain and develop the most productive client relationships.

* Must be comfortable working towards defined Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).

* Must be able to quickly understand the client, their products and their industry.

* Experience in managing the following types of projects; digital, e-commerce, system integration, SEO optimisation and conversion optimisation.

Benefits:

* 22 days holiday plus bank holidays

* Your birthday off

* One day extra holiday for every year worked

* Flexi-time

* Discounted gym membership

* Option to take part in Tough Mudder

* Childcare vouchers

* Health scheme (after 1 year)

* Optical care vouchers

* Employee assistance programme

* Perkbox employee scheme

This role requires somebody with 1 years experience working within a digital agency.

Keywords: Software Development, Agile, SCRUM, e-commerce, Vendor and Supplier Management, IT Project Manager