Job Specifications
Role Summary
The Senior Project Manager has day-to-day responsibility for the smooth and effective running of a range of digital projects, across a wide range of clients at Unipro. You will be confident managing project teams and delivering large projects with budgets in the region of PS1m+, including digital applications and website development.
To succeed you must be in control of your projects yet allow ideas the space and freedom to thrive. You see and understand the big picture but are also the expert of the project specifics and the detail of what it takes to deliver it on time, to budget whilst delighting the client and end users. You excel at switching seamlessly between conceptual, visionary thinking and pragmatism to find a happy middle-ground, avoiding the mediocre compromise. You will be supported in this as part of a structured Project Management team, within which you will have opportunities to learn and to grow your career further.
What will happen when I join?
You will be personally welcomed by our department heads and your line manager, and given plenty of chance to ask questions. You will then be onboarded into your team and work closely with team members to ensure you have the best experience possible.
What will be my day-to-day responsibilities?
You are a project leader and facilitator with proven skills and experience in the following: effective project set up and initiation, budget control, project tracking and reporting, risk and issue management, quality assurance and project resourcing.
Experience in different project management methodologies with opinions about what to use when and why is vital.
The Senior Project Manager oversees all factors that govern project success to ensure delivery within time, cost, and quality parameters. The Senior PM also provides guidance, support and is an exemplar of best-practice approach and behaviour for junior and mid-weight Project Managers.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of a range of digital projects, throughout the full project lifecycle, for multiple and diverse clients.
* Manages and delivers multiple workstreams for various types of digital projects within multiple accounts, to agreed scope, timings, budget, and quality.
* Main point of project-level communication - in regular contact with internal and external partners engaged in delivering the project.
* Constantly analyse the areas that could potentially throw the delivery off track, log these risks and list what you plan to do to mitigate against them.
* Be on top of your projects and manage timings, key milestones, budgets, resourcing, risks.
* On a weekly basis, report project tracking, including hours and budget spent to date, estimated hours and budget at completion (EAC). Escalate any projects at risk - based of variance from baseline on delivery dates or budget overspend to the PMO.
* Facilitate scoping and planning sessions with the wider team to ensure appropriate estimates can be shared with the client, from initial ballparks, to detailed planning and costs for more accurate proposals.
* Produce project documentation, including Statement of Work (SoW), RACI, Risk log.
* In conjunction with the Account Manager, provide appropriate reporting to the client of any changes or potential impact to agreed project deliverables.
* Assess the time and financial impact of changes and communicate to clients as appropriate.
* Mentoring, providing guidance and a best-practice behaviour example to junior and mid-weight Project Managers.
What skills and experience do I need?
If you can fulfil most of the following attributes, skills and experience shown below, this could well be the job for you:
* At least 6 years' experience delivering digital projects, within in a fast-paced agency environment.
* Strong commercial awareness.
* Solutions orientated, focusing on delivering customer benefit.
* Problem solver - analytical, logical, and creative in equal measure.
* Flexible, helpful, resourceful, yet always delivery focused.
* Reliable team player who promotes collaboration.
* Keen interest in digital technology and how it can be utilised to solve complex problems.
* Has a diplomatic approach to all situations.
* An excellent communicator with strong team management skills. Distils complex ideas into concise written and verbal descriptions.
* Positive and calm under pressure.
* Can quickly separate the important tasks from the trivial with ability to identify the most useful next steps.
* Excels under pressure and can take on multiple challenges simultaneously
* Highly adept at least 2 mainstream project management methodologies, applicable to software development.
* Website development experience incorporating knowledge of usability best practices.
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About the Company
Unipro is a software studio that creates bespoke software not just to solve problems, but to give unparalleled control and lasting technological advantage to our clients. We are an inquisitive team that gets to the heart of business challenges, and once solved, the IP of everything we create becomes yours giving you the freedom to control your roadmap, develop strategic advantage, and future-proof your business. Bespoke software. Unrivalled advantage.
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