Digital Project Manager

Job Title: Agile Project Manager/ Digital PM

Location: London

Duration: 6 Months

Description:

Client is looking for an experienced Project Manager with Agile delivery experience to manage and deliver digital projects. They will lead across a complex multi-function, multi-vendor, global environment. The Project manager will ensure delivery balancing time, cost and quality while maintaining excellent stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Orchestrate the delivery of solution designs, development, functional and user acceptance testing, cutovers as well as transition to support of various projects - working closely with a team of Business Analysts and Engineers both on-site and remote.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies for the stream, communicating agendas and outcomes
• Manage project financials including initial business case, estimates, budgets and forecasts across Opex and Capex.
• Proactivity manage a complex project stakeholder environment up to executive level across multiple internal functions and locations.
• Lead and manage internal resource across a matrix organization and across a supplier landscape globally.
• Define and manage a clear communication strategy across project team up to executive levels
• Directly manage experienced workstream leads within the project of work.
• Establish an approach for ensuring the realisation of benefits and the measurement of those benefits against the business case across the entire programme.
• Close projects and conduct lessons learned sessions to capture and document the knowledge and ensure its availability to other programme and project managers.

Core Accountabilities/Measures of Success

• Delivery of projects on time, within budget, and within scope.
• Stakeholder satisfaction with level of engagement throughout the project.
• Accuracy and timeliness of programme reporting.

Qualifications, Skills, Experience Required

• Delivered £250k-£5m projects/programmes on time and on budget.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in Agile and an understanding of Jira and continuous delivery.
• Ability to apply both creative and pragmatic thinking to problem solving.
• Can work autonomously with excellent attention to detail.
• Proven leadership and people management expertise, with the ability to prioritise activities and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve results.
• Experience working with offshore teams and agencies
• Ability to take a holistic view of the business case, using this to guide project execution, and understanding of the broader context of decisions.
• Strong judgement with willingness to take responsibility for project decisions.
• Experience in the Retail industry, Digital Development, working across large websites and Digital applications.