Senior Digital Project Manager

Leading Digital Agency

London

Permanent

Salary £60,000

Role purpose

An excellent opportunity for a Senior Digital Project Manager to join a leading Digital agency in London. You would be responsible for managing the strategic and technical delivery of work across some of the agency’s largest and most commercially focused accounts. Working closely with the client and account management team, you will plan and deliver work streams across often highly technical and business critical platforms. You will deliver project plans, budgets and review the feasibility of proposals. You will work collaboratively with other teams including strategy, UX, design, editorial and technology to deliver exceptional work and manage risk effectively.

Main responsibilities

· Manage client relationships at a senior level, communicating authoritatively regarding technical and strategic issues and proposing approaches and solutions

· Deliver end-to-end design & technology projects at scale, experience working with UX, visual design, development & test resource

· Understand and interpret clients’ business objectives and requirements against multiple work streams, with the ability to assess, plan and prioritise

· Work with the account management team to define the scope of projects and work streams, producing detailed plans, budgets and specifications

· Monitor project performance, timelines and budgets, and report on these regularly to the account management team

· Ensure delivery against estimates, budgets and timelines

· Identify risks early in deliveries and formulate plans to mitigate against them, resolving issues before they arise

· Facilitate continual process and delivery reviews

· Prepare functional specifications, in collaboration with UX and technology teams

· Work collaboratively with other agency teams, including strategy, UX, design, editorial and technology to ensure the best result for your projects

Experience

· Minimum 5 years’ digital agency experience

· Technically, commercially and strategically focused

· Accomplished at managing multiple work streams and programmes of ongoing updates/improvements

· Experience with technically complex and commercially led digital platforms with an emphasis on third party integration

· Ability to multi-task in a fast moving environment

· Excellent project management skills, with experience of managing budgets, estimates and schedules

· Excellent internal and client management skills, with a proven ability to add value internally and for clients, ensuring on time, on budget and on brief delivery

· Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills

· Experience of inspiring and motivating a cross functional team

· In depth understanding and practical experience of Agile and Waterfall methodologies

· In depth understanding of project management documentation, such as product and sprint backlogs, RACI, burn down charts and user stories

· In depth understanding of multiple CMS platforms

· In depth understanding of project management software, such as MS Office and MS Project (essential), and Codebase, JIRA, Basecamp (desired)