This vibrant and dynamic global content marketing agency is looking for a Digital Project Manager to join a growing, global account. The ideal candidate will be someone who is experienced in managing digital projects from inception to completion, has worked with global brands, has a creative eye, is enthusiastic, motivated and thrives under pressure.
Overview of the Role
Understanding the needs of a market-leading, global brand and creating a robust project and technical plan for delivery to budget. Getting under the skin of a brief, you will work with the Planning, Finance, Account Management, Editorial and Design teams to form a solution that delivers inspiring content in a digital format for a global client and a global audience.
They are looking for best-practice project management direction on all facets of the account. You’ll create solid timing plans, write scopes of work, contribute to functional/technical specifications and ensure the team work to an Agile process. This will involve managing clients and key stakeholders, as well as external suppliers and tracking costs/budgets.
While the agency isn’t designing/building the platforms (websites/Apps), close collaboration with the client’s UX/UI agencies, the ability to speak the same language and be expert in digital process is fundamental to this role.
Key responsibilities:
Creating costs, tracking budgets and forming timing plans to work across multi-disciplined teams
Creating highly defined, easy-to-understand Scopes of Work and Project Plans
Being a key member of the client’s digital agency team, collaborating with developers, design, UX, and UI agency partners to ensure content is a key-driver in the developments of websites and Apps
Project managing the entire lifecycle of complex projects including content managed websites (WordPress, Drupal), eCRM campaigns and Apps for across all platforms (iOS, Android and Blackberry)
Educate Account Management and Creative teams about digital process
Qualifications and experience:
- Professional qualifications preferred (PRINCE2, Certified Scrum Master)
- Running complex, large-scale digital projects
- Managing teams / stakeholders (internal and client side)
- Where necessary, setting-up and managing suppliers and freelance contractors to an Agile process
- Experience in a client-facing role, being part of the team presenting creative work in-line necessary technical and functional specifications
- Working with creative teams in writing and design
Skills and knowledge:
- Using project management tools such as Jira, Trelo, Smartsheets or similar, to manage projects and track issues.
- An understanding of the technical requirements for setting up tracking and analytics for tools such as Omniture, Google Analytics and Flurry
- An understanding of digital content and multi-platform distribution, including mobile/Apps, interactive and responsive websites, assets for social channels
- SEO and analytics
- Email marketing (technical set-up, design/accessibility, distribution)
- Ability to explain complex technical issues and their implications in layman terms to internal and external contacts
- Understanding of privacy and cookie laws
