Digital Project Manager - 1 Year FTC

Journey; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Journey in Cheltenham is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead large-scale website projects with challenging functionality. You will provide on-site leadership, build and motivate the studio team, and ensure project milestones and responsibilities are met.

You will translate client briefs into the studio, explain project technicalities to clients, identify risks, maintain stakeholder communication, and drive continuous improvement in delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management, preferably digital projects.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Act independently and provide sound solutions to client or studio challenges before presenting to the digital delivery director.
• Project Planning: Creating detailed project plans, defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables, and establishing timelines and milestones.
• Translate technical briefs from clients into the studio and to be able to confidently explain project technicalities to the client with ease.
• Risk Monitoring: Identifying potential risks and issues within projects and being able to articulate these to the project team, developing mitigation strategies, and implementing contingency plans when necessary.
• Stakeholder Communication: Maintaining clear and consistent communication with project stakeholders, including clients, team members, executives, and external partners.

Job description

About Us

What you'll do

Role Overview

To be an expert in the project management field demonstrating a natural aptitude for handling large scale website projects with challenging functionality requirements.

Provide on-site leadership by building and motivating studio team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.

What You Do: key responsibilities

• Act independently and provide sound solutions to client or studio challenges before presenting to the digital delivery director.

• Project Planning: Creating detailed project plans, defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables, and establishing timelines and milestones.

• Translate technical briefs from clients into the studio and to be able to confidently explain project technicalities to the client with ease.

• Risk Monitoring: Identifying potential risks and issues within projects and being able to articulate these to the project team. , developing mitigation strategies, and implementing contingency plans when necessary.

• Stakeholder Communication: Maintaining clear and consistent communication with project stakeholders, including clients, team members, executives, and external partners.

• Act as an internal quality control check for each website project.

• Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution.

• Extensive understanding of project management principles and methodology.

• Help the digital delivery director to establish new working practices/processes that will help to improve project delivery and efficiencies.

• Prepare estimates and detailed project plans.

• Manage the day-to-day project activities & resources. and chairs the project management team meetings.

• Provide status reporting to clients and digital delivery director regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and foreseen issues.

• Continuous Improvement: Evaluating project performance and identifying opportunities for process improvement and efficiency.

• Assess and evaluate project success.

What you'll bring

We’re a collective of disruptive thinkers, digital specialists and tech pioneers. But above all, we’re a family. We win together, and lose together. And we pride ourselves on our ethos of culture first, capability second.

• Several years of experience in project management, with a focus on digital projects.

• Strong leadership and team management skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Proficiency in project management methodologies and tools (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Waterfall).

• Knowledge of digital technologies including AI agents, web development, and digital marketing.

• Ability to manage different projects in a fast-paced environment

• Problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

• Attention to detail and a focus on quality.

• Strong organisational and time management skills.

What you'll get