Digital Project Manager

We are looking for a Digital Project Manager to join our client's growing team based in the UK to deliver some really cool products and services. Their teams are all currently working remotely, with the option to spend time in the office if you want to. 

Our client is an innovative digital brand agency based in London and Newcastle that work with a number of global, big name clients.

The Role
Our client would like an exceptional Project Manager to work with their project team. If you’re looking to develop your skills on a diverse range of projects within an ideas driven team, this one’s for you. Working directly with the Head of Delivery and Senior Project Managers; to be successful in this role, you’ll be bright, ambitious and thrive working in a collaborative environment driving the projects forward alongside the full team of designers, strategists and developers. In this role, you’ll get the opportunity to show your passion for creativity and technology, deliver exceptional experiences, stand up for your work and your teams and inspire both the team and their clients. There will be an emphasis on stakeholder management and client relationship skills. You’ll be comfortable taking a mixture of exciting digital projects from concept to delivery, generating budget estimates and project plans. A high level of organisation is crucial to this role to deal with the number of quick turnaround projects that you’ll be involved in.

Key Skills and Experience:

• A graduate degree or equivalent/relevant qualification
• 3+ years of experience in a digital agency as a Project Manager
• Excellent understanding of stakeholder management and client relationship experience.
• A solid understanding of various project management methodologies and how to adapt these to the project and client deliverables.
• Demonstrable experience working within complex projects with different types of project teams
• Proven experience of managing project finances, timelines and resourcing
• Excellent multitasking skills and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities

Role Expectations:

• Manage roles and responsibilities day-to-day whilst taking a pride in self and work
• Be trusted to manage time, tasks and people without creating issues
• Be able to work on any aspect of a job and capable of managing multiple jobs/tasks to their time and standards, achieving desired outcomes
• Hosting client status calls and managing expectations
• Write and share project status reports with Head of Delivery and/or Senior Project Managers
• Manage project resourcing, deliverables and budgets
• Be confident in writing proposal and scoping documents for Head of Delivery and/or Senior Project Managers
• Technical understanding with delivering web development projects.
• Understanding of development frameworks and UAT processes.
• Care for our brand, culture, business and workspace – contributing to making the agency a great place to be
• Work brilliantly independently and with others, can self start and manage. With the pandemic, we’ve all had to adjust the way we work. The agency will support you to work remotely.
• Take a wider view of what's going on whilst maintaining awareness of team and workload
• Spot, flag and help catch issues across the team before they have an impact
• Be flexible and adaptable - hands on, can do, solution focused
• Actively learn the commercial and management side of their role & craft
• Be trusted to manage, delegate, check and monitor others across the project team

Desirable Skills:

• Confident with UX and IA: its necessity, benefits and differences between design and development
• Be able to produce user stories (including acceptance criteria)
• Feel comfortable with multiple teamwork tools to satisfy internal and external necessities
• Handle difficult client conversations with support from Head of Delivery and/or Senior Project Managers

Ideal person:

• Track record of successful small and large scale digital project deliveries
• Excellent organising and planning skills
• Good team player and able to work independently
• Self-starter who is proactive in nature
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to build effective cross functional and external relationships
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Can-do attitude
• Adept creator of Project Plans
• Comfortable with MS Office, Google Suite, Jira and project management plan tools

We regret only successful candidates will be contacted.