Mid-Senior Project Manager - Freelance
DESCRIPTION
We’re on the lookout for a brilliant midweight Project Manager. If you have some good digital agency and with both campaign and website build experience and you’re quick, communicative and organised then this could be the role for you. We need a strong midweight Project Manager to come in to manage a large campaign for an exciting client, ranging from the build of a website, to video production, social assets and other campaign deliverables such as banners and emails. You’ll be personable and approachable and you’ll enjoy working with internal teams and feel comfortable managing external stakeholders.
Working as part of a team you will be responsible for helping to understand the client’s brief, gather and prioritise requirements, set up projects correctly, task plan with a team, establish project costs, track, monitor and report on project progress, as well as managing the overall delivery of a large, technically complex digital product development project for a financial services client.
You’ll need to be really organised and have fantastic communication skills, hold a high degree of responsibility, with the diplomacy to build relationships and manage external and internal stakeholders whilst keeping projects on track. You will ensure our internal processes are translated into working practices and be responsible for ensuring these are adhered to at all times.
Requirements
REQUIREMENTS
Responsibilities
* Managing a fast-paced campaign with different workstreams and stakeholders.
* Managing technical web build projects of varying size and complexity, working with UX, design and development teams.
* Managing varying campaign deliverables including video production, social assets and email builds.
* Ensuring quality of assets being delivered across the varying workstreams
* Experience in end-end WordPress builds, QA, UAT and content management is essential.
* Owning the delivery of these campaigns including being the point of contact for the client throughout the project lifecycle.
* Produce all necessary documentation on your account(s); ensuring correct templates are used where necessary.
* Monitor financial tracking on a per project basis and work with your department and account leads to mitigate any issues that arise
* Developing great working relationships with other departments and promoting positive liaisons at the project level
* Supporting client-side project stakeholders by representing requirements and business value within Hugo and Cat
A Project Manager must have the following essential skills, knowledge or abilities:
* Experience of delivering projects with deliverables such as those outlined above, within top digital agencies
* Ability to quickly understand project briefs or the status of in-flight projects that are assigned to you
* Ability to quickly absorb agency processes and understand how to apply them to manage projects effectively from the outset
* Good industry knowledge, with experience in a relevant businesses and their processes
* Proven ability to create, manage and track against a milestones (e.g. roadmap or timeline), flagging blockers, dependencies etc early on to avoid delays
* A proven track record of managing complex projects and implementing innovative, interactive and consumer focused solutions
* Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with peers and clients, and the ability to achieve results under challenging circumstances
* Ability to make sound commercial and financial decisions, quickly grasp an understanding of complex problems and propose solutions to facilitate fast resolutions
* Ability to work well under pressure, whilst remaining objective and retaining a positive approach
* Be self-motivated, self-driven and independent, requiring little day-to-day oversight
* Demonstrated commitment to high standards of excellence and integrity, showing solid business acumen and sound judgement
* Outstanding communication skills at all levels, (presentation, written, verbal)
* Highly organised and tenacious, with exceptional attention to detail
* PRINCE2 Practitioner/Scrum Master/Product Owner accreditation is desired, but not essential