Digital Project Manager

Appius; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital project management agency based in Bournemouth is seeking a Digital Project Manager who will focus on traffic management and project delivery. This role is open to junior and mid-level candidates, and full training will be provided. Responsibilities include managing project deliverables and facilitating team communication. Competitive benefits include a health care scheme and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Health Care Scheme with gym membership discounts

Pension Scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Social events throughout the year

In office fruit, drinks & snacks

Qualifications

• Experience in project management preferably using agile methods.
• Ability to work on digital projects is useful.
• Strong communication and people management skills.

Responsibilities

• Traffic management and prioritisation of features to maximise productivity.
• Manage risks, actions, issues, and decisions effectively.
• Facilitate communication within the team for release objectives.

Skills

Project management

Analytical mindset

Organisational skills

Microsoft Excel

Communication skills

Education

Degree in marketing, digital or IT

Tools

TargetProcess

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Project

Job description

Overview

Position: Digital Project Manager

Location: Bournemouth office 3-5 days per week, up to 2 days remote working.

Hours: Monday to Friday (with flexi-time and hybrid working options).

Salary: Subject to Experience. Junior, Mid & Seniors welcome.

Role Description

Exciting role for anyone who wishes to work at the heart of a digital delivery and project management environment for a digital agency with over 25 years history and an excellent client portfolio. The role is focused on project management, traffic management, planning and resourcing of work for customers by the competency teams. Maximising quality deliverables being completed and correctly delivered first time, as well as efficient understanding, throughput and productive use of the competency teams.

The role will identify and facilitate the definition of project and retainer releases, manage the progress of deliverables within these releases to completion, and ensure that the project and its associated releases are completed in alignment with the specification and ongoing client dialogue. Central to this role will be an understanding of the deliverables that align with the functional and technical specifications, the QA Analysts development of test plans, the execution of this testing and the management of the resolution of bugs.

The traffic management approach is facilitated through a 6-week view of resourcing, which feeds into this week, next week and last week focus for weekly activity, which this role will help to administer under the guidance of the Program Director. Tools that are used in the role include primarily TargetProcess, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Excel to manage and define release packages and deliverables, manage team time logging and the management of release confidence and variance.

Role is aimed at junior experienced project managers. Full training will be given to help progression.

Responsibilities

• Traffic management and prioritisation of features, requirements and the associated releases to maximise productivity
• Confidence and variance management across features, requirements and releases
• Daily and weekly resourcing adjustments and scheduling of team
• Support the completion of weekly resourcing / capacity processes
• Manage, monitor and report on confidence / risk and requirement variances
• Provide regular release status reports for internal and external use
• Manage risks, actions, issues, decisions (RAID) and internal and external escalations
• Facilitate communication and dialogue within the team to achieve release objectives

Release Planning & QA

• Understand scope of a release and its functionality, so that you can work with QA Analysts and Developers to create test plans
• Support preparation of Release Notes to communicate release content to client
• Manage testing during stabilisation phase of each release and then the overall project

Desirable skills or those on which you will be trained

• Project management ideally using agile methods
• Experience of working on digital projects useful
• Analytical and methodical mindset for release planning in TargetProcess
• Good communication and people management skills
• Organisational and time management skills
• Microsoft Office, and in particular Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Project

Measurable Targets

• Company profit and gross margin
• Volume of productive hours or "throughput" managed
• Release recovery ratios and confidence levels
• Personal billable hours achieved

What We Offer In Return

• Full training given to progress in this role
• Health Care Scheme with gym membership discounts
• Pension Scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Invitation to join our annual summer team day and Christmas party plus a range of social events throughout the year
• Bournemouth based office 5 mins walk to the award winning beach
• In office fruit, drinks & snacks always available

Personal Situation: The right candidate will already be based in Bournemouth or the surrounding area, alternatively if they are relocating they must have strong ties to the area such as family.

The right candidate would typically have a degree from a marketing, digital or IT background.

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