Digital Project Manager - remote

Posted 3 years ago
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Overview:
As a successful rapidly growing company with an ever-growing reputation as an agency that delivers results, Insites Digital are looking to hire a proactive, driven and ambitious Remote Digital Project Manager.

Role Context &Purpose :
As a Project Manager at Insites Digital you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day workflow of projects from brief to delivery. You will know how to work with your internal teams, external vendors and clients to control deadlines and manage scope changes. You will be able to successfully negotiate timelines, milestones, Statements of Work and expectations. You will be required to collect, interpret and analyse data.

Key Responsibilities/Tasks:

  • Lead daily project meetings ensuring all team members are aware of their priorities and deadlines for the day and upcoming week
  • Lead effective internal and external project, kick off and wash up meetings
  • Manage the day to day of the studio effectively, utilising resources while implementing the most effective strategies and techniques for maintaining speed, effective cost and high creative output
  • Create project plans for each project and manage timelines and gantt charts within our project management system to effectively plan, control and delivery projects within agency process
  • Create and assign tickets to team members, making sure tickets are completed and progressing in a timely manner for each project
  • Assist in reviewing and quality testing work ensuring the tasks assigned to each team member have been completed as per expected and to a high standard
  • Actively manage relationships with stakeholders across business teams, strategic partners and third-party suppliers
  • Respond in a timely manner to clients on all things project related
  • Evolve product vision, strategy and roadmaps to meet clients and business goals while staying ahead of their needs
  • Produce Statements of Work and Functional Requirement Specification documents for clients
  • Effectively document and explain new requirements to the development team using user stories
  • Manage internal and external amends on projects while keeping the budget, scope, user experience and client relationships at the forefront of everything we do
  • Understand competing priorities across the business and effectively prioritising core digital requirements, project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
  • Support the Account Managers with budgets and milestones
  • Support the Leadership Team by reporting on budgets, forecasts, utilisation, capacity and analysing this data to further improve processes and reach targets
  • Provide monthly project reports using tools like Google Datastudio to allow us to report on progress and further suggest areas of improvement or where to invest in the future
  • Manage the development team, reviewing their performance weekly and holding personal development meetings monthly

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Passionate and experienced working as a Project Manager in a digital production environment
  • Experience leading and managing a studio team with both creative and technical skillsets remotely
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills
  • Highly organised
  • Multi-tasking and priority focussed mindset
  • Problem solving capabilities with a proactive approach to assess risks and manage situations accordingly
  • Work collaboratively as part as a cross-functional team to deliver the roadmap –Prioritising the backlog –translating roadmap features into requirements, features, user stories &acceptance test criteria
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Adaptable and agile to clients needs and requirements
  • An understanding of resource utilisation
  • Financial acumen and good understanding of project profitability
  • Experience implementing processes and ensuring quality of delivery

Expected Start Date: ASAP

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent