Junior/ Midweight Project Manager
About the Job
We’re urgently looking to recruit a Junior/ Midweight Project Manager.
As an NMA Top 100 Interactive Agency and Wales’ largest independent digital agency, we work on a range of digital projects for exciting clients ranging from mobile and social media applications to enterprise CMS-driven solutions.
We have a reputation for delivering creative and cutting edge projects so we’re looking for someone who is as passionate about digital as we are. We actively encourage continuous learning and development and reward talent so this is a great opportunity for you to shine.
You will be responsible for projects with budgets between £2k and £50k and be working with clients on projects that target national and international audiences. You will have experience of the successful delivery of a number of concurrent projects, preferably within an agency and be really committed to delivering amazing results. Ideally, you should have 1-3 years’ experience of project management and/or support for web applications.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Responsibility for the delivery of quality digital projects up to £50k in value, on time and budget.
- Providing leadership to a highly experienced team of professionals in disciplines including creative, front end, technical and other support teams.
- To proactively manage the specification and build of the project using tenacity and commercial awareness.
- To manage internal and external risks, being confident to challenge unclear requirements or aspirations.
- To be able to apply your experience of project management techniques – estimating, detailed project planning, progress tracking and risk management.
- To keep accurate, organised records of all aspects of the project, including management of PIDs, Functional Specs, Issue Logs, Risk Logs and Project Finance, providing a complete audit trail of decisions and project progress sign-offs.
- To stay abreast of digital technologies to a suitable standard for client management at executive level, empathising with the priorities and needs of a range of customers from public sector to private.
Mandatory skills:
- Ideally 1-3 years demonstrable experience of digital project management preferably in an agency environment.
- The ability to produce project documentation, including basic business analysis / requirements gathering.
- The ability to manage the production lifecycle from specification to live.
- A good understanding of digital technologies and the current marketplace.
- Proactive, customer focussed and able to act with urgency.
- Great communication skills and leadership potential.
In return we will give the right candidate the following benefits:
- Great salary (18k - 28k) depending on experience
- Contributory (3%) Pension
- Child-Care voucher scheme
- Cycle purchase scheme
- Free fruit
- Training
- Social events
- Subsidised gym membership
- A great environment to work in, nice colleagues and interesting projects.
Sequence is an equal opportunities employer
For this position we are only interested in hearing from direct applications, we do not want to hear from any recruitment agencies at this time.
