Mid-Level E-commerce Project Manager

Tom & Co.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook Air

Birthday off

24 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Tom & Co. is a fast-growing agency seeking a superstar Project Manager with proven e-commerce experience to build best-in-class websites.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary pod, collaborating with designers, developers, analysts, and QA to deliver client projects across sectors including Fashion, Homeware and Luxury. You’ll drive Agile ceremonies, nurture client relationships, and own project timelines, budgets, and risks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of project management experience.
• Experience working with Magento2 preferable.
• A clear communicator to internal teams and clients.
• Good technical website understanding.
• Understanding of PM methodologies, particularly Scrum.
• Use of project management systems, particularly Jira.
• Bright, ambitious, and looking to progress in a fast-paced environment.
• Well organized and a logical thinker.

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership and leading the pod in the delivery of all work.
• Leading various agile ceremonies within the pod, eg. daily standup, refinement, kanban prioritisation and scheduling.
• Keeping track of priorities and managing work accordingly.
• Updating clients on scheduled work and any unexpected changes.
• Joining the client for project weekly calls to provide updates, and maintaining excellent relationships.
• Plans midterm resource vs holidays and escalates if risk of insufficient resource.
• Ensures actions and decisions from retrospectives are carried forward.
• Proactively analysing delivery statistics and looking for opportunities to optimise or increase delivery/efficiency.
• Oversees Service Desk delivery and escalates urgent or slow-moving issues.
• Weekly call with Head of Project Management to provide status update on pod delivery & project progress.

Skills

3+ years project management

Magento2 experience

Clear communicator

Technical website understanding

Scrum knowledge

Jira

ClickUp

Ambitious, fast-paced

Tools

Jira

ClickUp

Job description

We are a fast-growing agency looking for a superstar Project Manager with proven e-commerce experience and an appetite to build best-in-class websites.

Our client portfolio includes well-known brands such as Topps Tiles, Oliver Bonas, and Agent Provocateur with many more clients across various different sectors including Fashion, Homeware, Luxury, Gifting, Outdoors, Food, and Charity.

We believe that work should be fun and that as a team we produce better work when people enjoy their job and are passionate about what they do. Sounds good?

Location

The Tom&Co nerve centre is located at our brand new, trendy office near Tower Bridge. We can promise you a fun and creative place to work with a company that is growing fast so you will have plenty of opportunities to develop. We have openly embraced the flexibility of working from home and days in the office, with two compulsory office days.

Summary of responsibilities

As a project manager you will have full control of one of the “Pods” within the company. Each pod will consist of a multi-disciplinary, fully autonomous team, consisting of a designer, business analyst, FE & BE developers, QA testers, and a technical analyst, that will be geared towards looking after a subset of T&C’s clients.

Below is a list of expected responsibilities:

• Taking ownership and leading the pod in the delivery of all work
• Leading various agile ceremonies within the pod, eg. daily standup, refinement, kanban prioritisation and scheduling
• Keeping track of priorities and managing work accordingly
• Updating clients on scheduled work and any unexpected changes
• Joining the client for project weekly calls to provide updates, and maintaining excellent relationships
• Plans midterm resource vs holidays and escalates if risk of insufficient resource
• Ensures actions and decisions from retrospectives are carried forward
• Proactively analysing delivery statistics and looking for opportunities to optimise or increase delivery/efficiency
• Oversees Service Desk delivery and escalates urgent or slow-moving issues
• Project managing “retainer projects” within the pod
• Creating and maintaining project timelines and responding to and communicating changes
• Managing project budgets and identifying areas of riskWorking with the Account Strategist to secure additional budget if required
• Ensuring any referrals to our partners are communicated to the AS team to introduce and ensure commission is received
• Weekly call with Head of Project Management to provide status update on pod delivery & project progress; proactive participation in improving the team efficiency and processes is expected
• Using Jira for managing all internal work
• Using ClickUp for client and project management, ensuring it’s utilised, maintained and remains organised

Skills and experience

• +3 years of project management experience
• Experience working with Magento2 preferable
• A clear communicator to internal teams and clients
• Good technical website understanding
• Understanding of PM methodologies, particularly Scrum
• Use of project management systems, particularly Jira
• Bright, ambitious, and looking to progress in a fast-paced, challenging work environment
• Well organised and a logical thinker
• Passionate about e-commerce and all things digital
• Naturally well-organised, reliable, and enjoys working in a methodical way

What's in it for you

You will be part of an ambitious agency, experiencing rapid growth. This is a great opportunity where you can progress alongside the company, working closely with the directors, whilst being surrounded by people who are always willing to help each other.

We offer a scheme for personal self-development as we believe in growing our employees' potential to the full. There are lots of opportunities within the company to develop and increase responsibility and skill set. We work hard through the week but never shy away from a wind down on a Friday.

You will be joining a welcoming, friendly team, with a good sense of humour. You will have 24 days holiday, bank holidays on top, and we even give you your birthday off to celebrate in style. To top it all off – you’ll work on a shiny new MacBook Air, which you can take home, naturally.

We believe in paying people what they feel they deserve, so you tell us what that is and we will tell you if our pockets are deep enough.

We are committed to diversity within our team and encourage and support females, POC, LGBTQ+ and peoples of all abilities to apply to our roles. We are focused on involving more diverse individuals in all our teams, but especially in our technical teams to do our bit to shrink the gender and diversity gaps in STEM.