Digital Project Manager

Role Description

Exciting role for anyone who wishes to work at the heart of a digital delivery and project management environment for a digital agency with over 25 years history and an excellent client portfolio. The role is focused on project management, traffic management, planning and resourcing of work for customers by the competency teams. Maximising quality deliverables being completed and correctly delivered first time, as well as efficient understanding, throughput and productive use of the competency teams.

Responsibilities

• Project, Risk & Resource Management: Traffic management and prioritisation of features, requirements and the associated releases to maximise productivity
• Confidence and variance management across features, requirements and releases
• Daily and weekly resourcing adjustments and scheduling of team
• Support the completion of weekly resourcing / capacity processes
• Manage, monitor and report on confidence / risk and requirement variances
• Provide regular release status reports for internal and external use
• Manage risks, actions, issues, decisions (RAID) and internal and external escalations
• Facilitate communication and dialogue within the team to achieve release objectives
• Release Planning & QA: Understand scope of a release and its functionality, so that you can work with QA Analysts and Developers to create test plans
• Support preparation of Release Notes to communicate release content to client
• Manage testing during stabilisation phase of each release and then the overall project

Desirable Skills

• Project management ideally using agile methods
• Experience of working on digital projects useful
• Analytical and methodical mindset for release planning in TargetProcess
• Good communication and people management skills
• Organisational and time management skills
• Microsoft Office, and in particular Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Project

What We Offer

• Full training given to progress in this role
• Health Care Scheme with gym membership discounts
• Pension Scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Invitation to join our annual summer team day and Christmas party plus a range of social events throughout the year
• Bournemouth based office 5 mins walk to the award winning beach
• In office fruit, drinks & snacks always available

Personal Situation

The right candidate will already be based in Bournemouth or the surrounding area, alternatively if they are relocating they must have strong ties to the area such as family. The right candidate would typically have a degree from a marketing, digital or IT background.