Senior Project Manager

Squiz; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital experience platform company is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee digital projects. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills, experience in Agile methodologies, and the ability to manage budgets while ensuring client satisfaction. This role offers the flexibility to work from home or co-working spaces, alongside a competitive benefits package including generous annual leave and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Paid Parental Leave

£150 Annual Healthy Lifestyle Allowance

Excellent Career Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a project manager in IT/Tech consulting.
• Demonstrable experience in Agile project delivery.
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools.

Responsibilities

• Implement projects for clients with a cross-functional team.
• Manage project budgets and ensure timely delivery.
• Build collaborative relationships with clients.

Skills

Project management

Agile principles

Budget management

Client relationship management

Presentation skills

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

MS Project

Job description

2025 is all about growth here at Squiz !

We are currently looking to add a Senior Project Manager to our team who has experience delivering digital or web based projects on time and in budget. You enjoy collaborating and managing various teams to a schedule, working closely with your clients to keep them informed and updated throughout the project lifecycle.

Location: London/Edinburgh or at least able to visit the office of either on a regular basis

Responsibilities

• Working with one of our cross functional development squads, implementing projects for our clients.
• Working and collaborating closely with Squiz’s customers, ensuring their objectives are heard, and understood so that Squiz work can bring business value to them.
• Support the team in planning, optimizing and prioritizing their workload; ensuring that projects are delivered on time and to budget, effectively utilizing each squad member while delivering exceptional value for our customers
• Driving parallel projects from initiation to completion with strong organisation, focus, and clear stakeholder communication and management.
• Embody the agile mindset, utilizing lean project management tools and methods to take care of their squad and project delivery based on best industry practices.
• Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
• Prepare budget estimations based on scope of work and resource requirements
• Prepare SOWs, quotes and contribute to new business proposals
• Proactively manage projects’ budgets, and produce detailed reporting on projects’ budget spend to date vs planned spend to date as well as total forecasted spend to completion Collaboratively determine and define project scope and objectives ensuring they are aligned to customer’s business goals
• Develop and manage detailed project schedules and work plans
• Regularly report on projects’ progress both to customers and internally
• Proactively manage and report on projects’ risks, issues including mitigation plans. Define projects and quotation assumptions
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
• Promote collaborative working, especially with the customer by building strong professional relationships

Qualifications

• Experience as a project manager from the IT/Tech consulting/digital agency industry working with external clients (experience with government clients will be a bonus)
• Ideally you have experience delivering website, digital, CMS or Digital Experience related projects (SDLC)
• Demonstrable experience applying Agile principles to project delivery
• Experience working with common industry tools; JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project (or equivalent)
• Understanding of a software delivery lifecycle, phases, stage gates etc.
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget and timeline
• Strong experience managing project budgets according to various commercial models (with a focus on fixed price and T&M)
• Experience dealing with client escalations as the main point of contact
• Experience in an agency or consulting type environment where multi projects, team utilisation etc is common
• Outstanding presentation and relationship building skills and very comfortable to present and communicate at senior levels and in formal government environments
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Strong interpersonal and creative problem solving skills

* Please note this is not a marketing project manager role. This role requires experience managing web based development projects. Websites, intranets, portals etc.

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Benefits

• Squiz Flex - flexibility to work from home or one of our WeWork co-working spaces
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 2 days of Compassionate Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• Company Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day
• Open Door Policy - No need to worry about chain of command here at Squiz
• £150 Annual Healthy Lifestyle Allowance
• Excellent Career Development Opportunities

Who we are

Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online.

Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.

The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.

We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.

Why work for Squiz?

You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ve ever meet. We are made up of a diverse range of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we all love what we do.

We have a lived commitment to flexibility, we know the success of our people is dependent on them having a balanced life. You will be offered flexibility as to where and how you work every day. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.

Come as you are - We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with “why?” to really understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do. We also check our egos at door, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.

We understand the effort it takes to apply for a role. We are committed to respond to each and every applicant, successful or not.

Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.