Project Manager Jobs in 2020

Project Manager

Job Type : Contract, Full Time

Salary : £500 – £550/day

A passion for Media, digital advertising, Publishing and Fashion? Look no further!

A Global company, home to well known Iconic brands is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of high-profile strategic digital product initiatives. You will be responsible for the successful delivery of work streams that span and innovate across their product ecosystem. You will be engaging with key business stakeholders across the business, including Editorial, Commercial & Consumer Marketing and Commerce at all levels of the organization, including Senior Executives. As a key liaison point to coordinate decision-making across stakeholders, and to manage delivery across their Global Product, Technology & Data teams. You will be experienced in working in a fast-paced, OKR-oriented agile environment and will have the experience to negotiate priorities, inter-dependencies and opportunities to help us maximise business and customer value and reach millions of users worldwide.

ABOUT YOU- ESSENTIAL SKILLS
● Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
● Requires a minimum of 5+ years project experience in Product or Technology field (ideally in the Media Industry)
● Experience with delivery of direct-to-consumer and/or advertising-based digital product experiences for media or streaming industry.
● Experience in a senior-management facing role with a successful track record of project delivery working in a matrixed global corporate environment
● You are self-driven, comfortable with ambiguity and motivated to deliver results-oriented outcomes
● You are highly collaborative and able to effectively communicate technical concepts to different audiences. You build trusted relationships and can demonstrate proven success in negotiating priorities and supporting informed decision-making across at all levels of the organization
● You are able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and have a successful track record of delivering complex global initiatives to schedule and budget.
● You have excellent written and verbal English communication skills
● Experience with Project Management and Agile Software Development toolsets: JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheets, Windows Suite (MPP, Excel), Google Docs
● PMI/PMP Certification or Prince 2 qualification
● You love working with a global team and are flexible to adjust hours accordingly
● You raise the bar on all work, and share best practices
About you – desirable skills – Experience and/or interest in working with Media, digital advertising, Publishing, Fashion
Role responsibilities
● Lead prioritisation and planning across multiple digital product workstreams to ensure you meet stakeholder go-to-market plans with clear success criteria and measurable results
● Anticipate project dependencies at a cross-functional level including product, technology, editorial, commercial and consumer revenue
● Project manage delivery end-to-end from inception to launch ○ Technical solution design and development ○ Build, Test and Acceptance ○ Infrastructure delivery ○ Technology and business implementation & optimisation ○ Benefit realisation (benchmarking / tracking) to project objectives
● Facilitate business case development where required and ongoing budget tracking and resource management
● Own stakeholder communication across your projects providing accurate and timely status reporting for multiple audiences, including executive leadership, program office, and project teams. ○ Business engagement and discovery project management ○ Business change management & transition ○ Manage risk profile, prioritisation and resolution process ○ Report to leadership on progress, roadblocks, and priorities ○ Communicate with multiple teams and staff on priorities, tasks, and goals
● Manage across multiple concurrent build phases supporting build delivery with optimised agile & scrum practices, sprint planning, estimation, velocity management, burn down / burn up planning, QA & data migration & product feature release.
● Actively challenge and refine scope and prioritisation based on experience and domain knowledge; additionally seeks peers reviews with external (non-project related) resources to validate estimates & delivery approach