Location: Cape Town
Description:
Our client is a digital marketing agency offering smart, bold, innovative solutions to premium brands and adventurous entrepreneurs alike. Above all, they are obsessed with injecting soul into digital. Why? Because their ultimate goal is to facilitate interaction between people and brands, not computers
Their Cape Town office is currently seeking a talented mid – senior level experience Project Manager who will play a large role in one of their exciting CRM projects.
You will be responsible for the planning, management, coordination and financial aspects of campaigns and projects. If you are someone who can handle multiple digital projects and can work under pressure in a fast paced and dynamic environment, then contact us now.
The successful candidates should be passionate about everything digital and ooze positivity! They are looking for a team player that is self-motivated, ambitious and above all tenacious!
You will be responsible for:
Defining project scope, goals and deliverables in collaboration with a project team and in accordance to their methodologies
Preparing necessary and relevant documentation to ensure the successful delivery of your projects
Organising, collaborating with and leading multiple teams
Preparing project timelines and assigning resources
Setting, tracking and reporting progress on jobs using the appropriate project management tools to requirements
Identifying risks and effectively mitigating these with stakeholders
Managing project dependencies and work streams
Timeously communicating expectations, risks, issues and progress on jobs
Negotiating with departments to source the right skills and resources for the job
Reviewing, testing and approving the final delivery of your project
Requirements
Relevant tertiary Degree/Diploma
Three to five years’ digital project management experience
You must have the following software skills
MS Project
Excel/Word/PowerPoint
Beneficial skills:
Working on digital projects between multiple advertising and/or digital agency environments
CRM or large digital platform experience
Facilitating collaboration on digital projects while working with teams in above the line, below the line, activation and other third party digital design and development agencies
Advantageous
Software skills:
Visio
Photoshop
Axure or wireframing tool
Bug reporting software skills
Personal Skills/Attributes
To understand and run projects according to basic project management methodologies and processes, such as waterfall and agile
To have strong leadership and interpersonal skills
To think strategically and be a problem solver
To be highly organised and work well under extreme pressure
To have an attention for detail
To effectively identify when and how to prioritise tasks
To understand the requirements of a digital team (i.e. strategy, usability, copy, design, development, QA and more)
As senior project managers they would expect you to be proficient using typical project management tools (such as Gantt Charts, project progress reporting tools, bug tracking software, etc.)
Strong knowledge of typical project management tools and respective software (such as MS Project) would be expected of junior to midweight project managers.
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