Technical Project Manager

Havas Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global content agency is seeking a Technical Project Manager to drive a transformative global initiative. The successful candidate will manage multi-faceted projects, ensuring alignment across technical and business teams while delivering high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in project management.
• Solid understanding of Agile, especially Scrum.
• Organised and proactive, able to manage multiple initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Drive progress across the delivery roadmap.
• Manage feature intake and decision-making.
• Act as a key communication bridge between teams.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Agile frameworks

Communication

Project management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Adobe Content Supply Chain

Job description

Agency :

Prose On Pixels

Job Description :

Prose on Pixels is a global content at scale agency built to address the marketing challenges of today and deliver meaningful content into the future. With our unique Audience-First production model, we Create, Scale and Personalize content to captivate audiences and achieve desired brand and business outcomes.

Fusing creativity and performance, we create harder working, more sustainable content, reducing waste, and providing stronger ROI.

Introduction

Project Unify is Prose on Pixels’ internal global transformation initiative, focused on aligning all studios onto a shared global tech stack. We’re looking for a Technical Project Manager to ensure the smooth running of this complex programme. You'll be responsible for driving progress across a cross-functional delivery roadmap, supporting global stakeholders, and maintaining momentum across feature development.

This is a hands-on, fast-paced role, ideal for someone with strong technical understanding, stakeholder management skills, and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage feature intake and decision-making : Triage and challenge new requests , guiding them through gating sessions to determine next steps in collaboration with technical and operational stakeholders.
• Facilitate prioritisation and planning sessions : Help teams assess impact and urgency, and support transparent, collaborative prioritisation of the roadmap.
• Manage and track progress across workstreams : Oversee multiple concurrent feature deliveries, ensuring teams remain aligned to timelines, dependencies, and quality expectations.
• Act as a key communication bridge : Translate technical information for non-technical stakeholders and ensure updates are clearly cascaded between teams.
• Escalate blockers and manage risk : Monitor the pipeline, maintain a RAID log, and flag issues early, proactively driving resolution and escalating where needed.
• Coordinate across tech and business teams : Work closely with development leads, Scrum Master, Business Analysts, and global stakeholders to ensure initiatives are well scoped, resourced, and moving forward.
• Run and support key meetings : Own agendas, keep meetings focused, follow up on actions, and ensure decisions are documented and communicated.
• Drive process consistency and improvement : Keep documentation up to date, evolve workflows as needed, and champion consistency across the global team.
• Represent the tech team : Join early scoping calls or workshops and support the communication of proposed solutions and technical approaches back to the business.

Experience & Skills Required

• 3 + years’ experience in project management within a product, technology, or transformation-led environment.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex workstreams across a matrixed, fast-paced, and international organisation.
• Solid understanding of Agile frameworks, especially Scrum, with experience working closely with development teams or cross-functional delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence leading cross-functional meetings.
• Comfortable translating between business and technical teams and challenging where necessary to drive the best outcome.
• Organised and proactive, able to juggle multiple initiatives, keep meetings focused, and follow through on actions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present clearly to stakeholders at all levels.
• Comfortable using Jira, Confluence, and other modern collaboration/project tracking tools.
• Experience with Adobe Content Supply chain is a bonus (Workfront, AEM Assets, Fusion, Frame.io).
• Resilient under pressure, with the ability to stay calm, prioritise effectively, and maintain momentum.

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Contract Type :

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.