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Careers at Insites

Digital Project Manager

  • FULL TIME
  • Hitchin, Herts
  • No recruiters

Overview:

As a successful rapidly growing company with an ever-growing reputation as an agency that delivers results, Insites Digital are looking to hire a proactive, driven and ambitious Remote Digital Project Manager.

Role Context & Purpose :

As a Project Manager at Insites Digital you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day workflow of projects from brief to delivery. You will know how to work with your internal teams, external vendors and clients to control deadlines and manage scope changes. You will be able to successfully negotiate timelines, milestones, Statements of Work and expectations. You will be required to collect, interpret and analyse data.

Key Responsibilities/Tasks:

  • Lead daily project meetings ensuring all team members are aware of their priorities and deadlines for the day and upcoming week
  • Lead effective internal and external project, kick off and wash up meetings
  • Manage the day to day of the studio effectively, utilising resources while implementing the most effective strategies and techniques for maintaining speed, effective cost and high creative output
  • Own and develop: statements of work, project plans, estimations, project tracking
  • Updating documentation throughout the project life cycle
  • Create and assign tickets to team members, making sure tickets are completed and progressing in a timely manner for each project
  • Assist in reviewing and quality testing work ensuring the tasks assigned to each team member have been completed as per expected and to a high standard
  • Actively manage relationships with stakeholders across business teams, strategic partners and third-party suppliers
  • Respond in a timely manner to clients on all things project related
  • Responsible for ensuring projects are delivered on time and budget
  • Produce Statements of Work and Functional Requirement Specification documents for clients
  • Manage internal and external amends on projects while keeping the budget, scope, user experience and client relationships at the forefront of everything we do
  • Understand competing priorities across the business and effectively prioritising core digital requirements, project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
  • Support the Account Managers with budgets and milestones
  • Support the Leadership Team by reporting on budgets, forecasts, utilisation, capacity and analysing this data to further improve processes and reach targets
  • Manage the development team, reviewing their performance weekly and holding personal development meetings monthly
  • Quality assurance, making sure the correct resources have reviewed and signed off work before delivery
  • Own client communication from project conception to delivery
  • Responsible for client sign-off on key project deliverables
  • Define and document best practices and contribute to the company knowledge sharing effort
  • Look after and mentor studio team members
  • Monitor individual employee progress and set/track monthly targets for all project team members

Required Skills and Experience:

  • 3-4 years of digital project manager experience - comfortable working in a mixed creative and technical environment
  • Experience using project tracking software such as Jira, Asana
  • Experience running SCRUM based meetings such as stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews and retrospectives
  • Ability to build strong and trusting relationships with internal and external parties
  • Impeccable attention to detail
  • Incredible organisational skills and ability to enforce processes when required
  • Confident with client management and able to effectively represent the company in client interactions
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills
  • Highly organised
  • Multi-tasking and priority focussed mindset
  • Problem solving capabilities with a proactive approach to assess risks and manage situations accordingly
  • Work collaboratively as part as a cross-functional team to deliver the roadmap – Prioritising the backlog – translating roadmap features into requirements, features, user stories & acceptance test criteria
  • Adaptable and agile to clients needs and requirements
  • An understanding of resource utilisation
  • Financial acumen and good understanding of project profitability
  • Experience implementing processes and ensuring quality of delivery

Nice to haves

  • Experienced in delivery of digital UX and front end build projects

If you have any questions about this role or would like to apply for the position just send in an email to careers@insitesdigital.com