Job Description

The Mid-Weight Project Manager is responsible for the day-to-day task management of Medium sized engagements (2-4 team members, up to £150/200k revenue). You are the client project contact, ensuring project scope is defined, adhered to by both client and team, managing the project plan, whilst providing direction to all members of the project team. You are ultimately responsible for planning and coordinating activities of individual projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and client needs are met.

Being a good Mid-Weight Project Manager requires a diverse mix of skills and experience. To be effective you need to be more than just organised and a good communicator. You’ll need to be able to prioritise, keep calm and focused, be able to delegate, not assume too much, be approachable, and have a passion for Digital Products, Social, as well as marketing comms and CRM. You’ll want to know how things work and you are always on the look-out for new tools, improvements and ways of doing things. And all of this while maintaining your sense of humour!

Responsibilities

• Define responsibilities, set direction and allocate tasks within the project team
• Stakeholder management both Internally and externally
• Create and own the plan, including estimation, tracking, updating
• Weekly reporting/recording for company (including resource forecast)
• Develop statements of work leveraging experience of key discipline leads
• Motivate others in your project to come up with new ideas and initiatives. Encourage them to challenge current approaches / methods.
• Develop and support your project team so that all members perform well
• Help your team set individual goals which build towards the wider team or project goals
• Identify and tackle poor performance or inappropriate behaviour
• Escalate issues to senior staff when appropriate

Qualifications

• Experience as a Project Manager in an agency web/digital consulting environment would be a plus!
• Experience managing marketing, creative or technology projects
• Experience developing project approaches and plans using PRINCE2 and/or Agile project methodologies
• Strong meeting facilitation skills
• Ability to run client workshops to discuss requirements
• Excellent client facing communications skills
• Can articulate Project Management methodology – processes, practices, team management, project delivery phases
• Ability to turn requirements into a viable project plan and marshal resources required to deliver
• Business process orientation
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks and priorities