
Project Manager - Leeds
- Leeds
- £34,000-40,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Schedule project workload across executional teams, coordinating with stakeholders and colleagues to prioritise delivery
- Liaise with internal specialist teams and clients to agree scope of work, timeframes and costs
- Create and communicate project plans
- Create supporting documentation & risk registers
- Work with lead developers to ensure tasks estimates are present and monitor progress of the developers against estimates
- Run stand-up meetings with the production team
- Ensure work is completed to specification
- Creating project specific efficiencies
- Liaise with QA testers to ensure work has been thoroughly tested
- Provide regular reports to internal teams and clients
- Lead regular project washups, documenting outcomes and support in implementing agreed process changes
- Report on the commercial element of the project and ensure that the day rate is maintained throughout delivery
- Help develop processes and procedures that consistently drive positive change and growth within the Project Management team and the wider business
- Support SPM / Principal PM / Head of PM on high profile projects with larger complexity and numerous stakeholders
- Experienced in Project Management
- Strong decision maker
- Able to solve problems independently
- Strong time management and organisational skills
- Interest in websites and related subjects; knowledge of trends in website design, UX, CRO, development, CMS, SEO etc
- Experience managing digital projects and/or client accounts, ideally in an agency environment
- Strong experience in project planning and resource management
- Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile or Hybrid project methodologies
- Strong client/stakeholder facing experience
- Ability to clearly communicate concepts to clients
- Ability to steer clients in terms of what is and isn't feasible or is relatively easy/difficult
- Comfortable leading client-facing meetings and setting agendas
- Attention to detail
- Commercially-minded
- Digital agency experience
- Strong team leadership or project group management; experience working with developers and designers
- Experience working with content management systems (Kentico, Umbraco, Shopify, Adobe and BigCommerce)
- Experience with any project planning and resource management tools e.g. Jira, Teamgantt, HubPlanner and other resourcing, project management and tasks management tools
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office