Agile Digital Project Manager at Dotsavvy

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage a broad portfolio of digital projects by establishing direction, aligning people and resources, and inspiring them to get the job done.
• Work face-to- face with clients throughout the delivery cycle, understand their problems, deliver quality digital solutions, and ensure that customer satisfaction remains high.
• Continuously work on defining and refining the agile project management model (i.e.SCRUM) employed by Dotsavvy as our service offerings expand and our methodology continues to evolve and mature.
• Define and refine project management methodologies followed within Dotsavvy; improving the processes and driving innovation and modernization of our service delivery.
• Detailed tracking and communication of project progress from a task, time, schedule, and cost perspective.
• Maintain accurate and up-to- date project plans enabling intelligent decision making by all stakeholders.
• Identify change orders, generating necessary documentation, and negotiating such change orders with the client.
• Identify risks and escalate them to relevant team members for intervention and resolution
• Un-block project issues by engaging appropriate management and resources where necessary.
• Support the professional development of your project team members – be aware of their career aspirations and provide written performance evaluations as part of our project closeout process.
• Motivate the people in your team, through strong leadership, and maintain a good pulse of your project and risk mitigations.
• Work with the account management, business development and production teams to identify, scope, and estimate additional business opportunities with your current clients.
• Work closely with our business development, account management and production teams to help close new business.
• Assist in responding to incoming RFPs, participate in strategic scoping initiatives and new business presentations/pitches, review and approve outgoing proposals.
• Ensuring that scope, budget, resources, schedule, and engagement terms are correctly modelled and that effort is always accurately estimated.
• Perform internal project audits to ensure that the project management process is being followed and organisational risk is minimised.
• Must be able to quickly and objectively identify key risks & mitigations on a given project already in progress.
• Provide day-to- day mentoring and oversight for team members and help them grow professionally.
• Participate in the training & ramp-up for new team members as and when required.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a computing sciences, engineering, business, or information technology related field of study
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of professional services consulting experience, working with external clients
• Experience having successfully rescued a major “failed” project through superior project management performance
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of applications development, digital marketing, or consulting experience, including at least 1-2 years as a team lead with a proven track record of delivering complex solutions on time
• Experience in implementing enterprise-grade digital business solutions
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of project management experience with both waterfall and agile methodologies, with a proven track record for project planning, executing, controlling and closing
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated and highly organised with solid problem solving skills.
• Diplomatic ability to influence others without having authority to do so
• Superior project management software experience
• Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key stakeholders
• Ability to mediate disagreements competently and negotiate a win-win resolution for all parties
• Excellent ability communicating internal and external executive stakeholders
• Ideally but not mandatory experience working within a digital agency or professional services firm environment
• Ideally but not mandatory experience in managing digital projects and processes
• Ideally but not mandatory PMP and/or ScrumMaster or Agile Certification designation or working towards the same.