Senior Project Manager

Overline is a leading digital marketing consultancy specializing in providing comprehensive marketing solutions to the biggest advertisers across the world. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to manage complex consulting and transformation projects on a global scale, requiring a solid grasp of product development approaches and AGILE practices.

Responsibilities:

• The effective management and coordination of multiple projects or workstreams within a programme of work
• The creation of efficient and well managed project environments from project initiation to close and analysis
• Work closely with clients, teams, and other project managers to plan and identify detailed requirements, facilitate prioritization and defining the definition of done
• Development of comprehensive timing plans or TimeBox plans for clients and team
• Forecasting team allocation and booking of resource and helping resolve and identify future conflicts
• The coordination and planning of clients and teams across geographies
• Project & RAID log management and ownership
• Capture, evaluate, and overcome project risks, and produce reports for management and key stakeholders
• Identify and mitigate change impact - Support project teams in solution, resolution and escalation matters
• Setting up and improving communication channels within a project
• Capturing and distributed notes, actions & decisions
• Development and ownership of client status documents and project health related reports
• Providing clear financial forecasts, reports and utilization of teams
• Manage budgets for projects, be responsible for reporting on project health and final reconciliation to business leads
• Coach teams in best practice for Agile, scrum, logging and planning
• Building structure and rhythm within projects to ensure teams connect
• Ensuring the process is followed and evolved in an interactive and collaborative manner, tailoring for project and team where appropriate
• Travel to client site or location internationally on occasion

Requirements:

• Ability to maintain high levels of accuracy, momentum and output
• Ability to create and work in a structured paced environment
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Experienced in challenging how work is delivered
• Engaging directly with clients and rallying internal and client-side teams to ensure clear planning and channels of communication are maintained
• A minimum of 5 years senior project management experience
• Hold a qualification in AGILE, Scum or Prince2
• Experience in managing Time and Materials budgets of £500k+
• To be an absolute process nerd
• Working within large programmes of work (within any of the following: technology, marketing, transformation & change management)
• Excellent presentation & communication skills, able to tailor to your audience
• Experience in coaching Agile and delivery practices to teams
• Experienced with multiple delivery techniques, including Product Dev, DevOps principles and application of these principles within teams and projects
• The use of Jira and Confluence or similar
• Experienced working with data teams
• A good knowledge of MarTech technology and applications