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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