Senior Digital Project Manager (2 month contract)

Ogilvy New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Ogilvy New Zealand is seeking a Senior Digital Project Manager to join the Auckland team on a short-term contract (2–3 months). You will lead cross-functional teams through full project lifecycles, balancing budgets, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.

The role requires strong leadership, experience with marketing automation, CRM, and CMS platforms, and the ability to manage multiple projects and client relationships while maintaining governance and delivering high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Digital project management experience, agency/consulting preferred.
• Experience with marketing automation, CRM, and CMS implementations.
• PMP, Scrum Master, or SAFe certification preferred.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams through full project lifecycles, from initiation to deployment.
• Develop and oversee comprehensive project plans detailing resources, milestones, risks, dependencies, and timelines.
• Collaborate with client and internal stakeholders to define objectives and gather requirements.
• Utilise Jira, Confluence, Wrike, Monday.com, and SharePoint for tracking and reporting.
• Implement Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Engage with marketing automation platforms and CDP/CRM/CMS tech.
• Mentor junior project managers and foster continuous improvement.
• Maintain governance and project documentation.

Skills

Project management

Agile

Stakeholder management

Marketing automation

CRM

CMS

Leadership

HTML/XML/JavaScript basics

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Wrike

Monday.com

SharePoint

Slack

Teams

Zoom

Job description

**Business unit:** Ogilvy One

Location:** **Auckland

Employment type: Fixed Term Contract

We are ateam of creative and strategic minds, driven byour purpose to create enduring brands and emerging ideas.

We partner with our clients to deliver strategic, creative work we are proud of.

We learn together, create together, win together, and most importantly, have fun together.

About the role:

Ogilvy One is on the hunt for a Senior Digital Project Manager to join the NZ team on a short-term contract for 2-3 months.

As a Senior Digital Project Manager, you will build award-winning brands and solve business problems creatively. You must be adept at managing varied groups of stakeholders and prioritising deliverables to produce exceptional work every time.

You will serve as a senior consultant to some of our largest and most progressive clients, helping them make key decisions and remain their day-to-day contact throughout the full lifecycle of the programs. In this role, you will be expected to manage multiple concurrent projects and ongoing client relationships with ownership of the account’s financial performance.

The role requires strategic thinking, technical acumen, and hands-on leadership in complex project lifecycles—balancing marketing automation, CRM, and content management systems.

Whatyou’lldo:

• Lead cross-functional teams through full project lifecycles, from initiation to deployment, ensuring timely, on-budget, and quality delivery.
• Develop and oversee comprehensive project plans detailing resources, milestones, risks, dependencies, and timelines.
• Collaborate with client and internal stakeholders (creative, data, content, consulting, technology) to define objectives and gather requirements.
• Utilise and promote project management and workflow platforms (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Wrike, Monday.com, SharePoint) for tracking, reporting, communication, and workflow effectiveness.
• Implement best practices for project management, adopting methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
• Engage with marketing automation platforms (Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle, Braze, Sitecore, Magento, Tealium) and customer data platforms (CDP), CRM, and CMS technologies.
• Mentor and guide junior project managers, championing team excellence and continuous improvement.
• Foster a productive, inclusive, and collaborative environment across distributed teams in various geographies and time zones.
• Manage project profitability, resource allocation, and proactively mitigate risks and issues.
• Support pre-sales activities by preparing proposals, statements of work, and change requests.
• Maintain governance standards, regularly updating project documentation and compliance.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience: Experience in digital project management, preferably in agency or consulting contexts, with a track record in marketing automation, CRM, and CMS implementations.
• Technical: Experience with PM/Workflow platforms (Wrike or Monday) and collaboration tools (Slack, Teams, Zoom). Familiarity with HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, and DevOps processes is advantageous.
• Certifications: PMP, Scrum Master, or SAFe certification preferred.
• Methodologies: Deep understanding of Agile, Waterfall, hybrid, and servient leadership approaches.
• Leadership: Strong stakeholder and team management skills, proven mentoring capability.
• Industry Exposure: Experience with large-scale digital marketing solutions, CX technologies, and digital transformation in diverse industry sectors.
• Communication: Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.

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