Junior Digital Project Manager

Our client is an awarding-winning integrated marketing agency for the digital age. The team consists of 75 plus highly skilled individuals with proven ability to deliver projects across the public and private sectors.

The Company uses a vibrant blend of creativity and technology to deliver successful, measurable campaigns. Ultimately, they make brands engage with people to bring them closer together through experiences fuelled by unbiased, effective communication.

With ISO9001:2008 accreditation and PRINCE2 qualified project managers, the Company works closely with each client to ensure successful delivery. Client involvement, feedback and collaboration are key elements in their tried and tested strategy.

Our clients mantra is to be fresh and clever by pioneering market-leading strategies on an international scale, whilst working with a broad mix of the very latest creative and digital technologies. Always remembering that the Customer Experience will always come first, our Clients customer are who we aim to please.

Responsibilities

Project Managers must be able to motivate, inspire and sustain people. Team members and clients look to the Project Management Team for quality outputs, efficiency, expertise, solutions and the ability to solve problems and help with remove obstacles.

As a Project Manager you will have gained experience of integrated projects across the board in Traditional, Technology, Digital and IT. Your experience working for multiple high profile brands or within an agency environment will mean that you are comfortable with managing multiple projects at any one time with consistency, gravitas and credibility.

You will manage your own projects (typically 7-10 projects at any one time) with a minimal need for support from your seniors in the team. In addition to managing projects you will be equally as happy playing role as part of a team helping your Project Manager colleagues and the Digital Director as and when needed.

• Working directly with other project managers within the team on digital implementations
• Taking direction and delivering objectives to senior members of the team
• Manage working relationships with the development, creative and client services teams
• Develop, maintain and demonstrate a strong level of project management skills, through every project
• Delivering financial reporting on projects to the senior members of the team including ROI creation and forecasting
• Responsible for project deliverables, maintaining the overall project plans across multiple areas to ensure effective delivery within budget and to the agree timescales, quality and benefits realisation requirements

Essential skills

• Must have some experience in managing projects through the full cycle of digital projects, preferably in an agency environment
• Ability to take direction from senior members of the team
• Strong awareness capability for multiple projects with financial and non-financial benefits
• Good PC Skills, including Excel and MS Project
• Great all round organisation skills
• Outstanding relationship and stakeholder management skills
• Educated to a minimum degree level or relative professional qualification such as Prince, Agile, Scrum
• Personal competencies
• Excellent organisation, communication, presentation, negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Highly motivated individual
• Skilled communicator
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Sound team leadership skills
• Able to cope with varying workload pressures and to self-manage
• A professional approach and manner