Project Manager (Maternity Cover - 12 month Fixed-Term Contract)

Company Description

Working at The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What we offer you

We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.

Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.

Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

Job Description

As a Project Manager, you will report into the Brew Project Management team and also work within the wider Adaptavist Project Management community. You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of multiple client engagements, focusing on Digital Strategy, SEO, PPC and Social Media campaigns, ensuring that these are delivered to the customer’s expectations, on time and within budget.  You will also assist with account management and the other Project Managers within the team.

You will serve as the main point of contact in the client relationship for ongoing Digital Marketing Services project work, to develop, maintain and grow those relationships. You will be responsible for tracking project progress, providing client and internal reports, managing risks and issues ensuring the team is being used effectively.

What you'll be doing

Project & Programme Management

• Responsible for a series of projects, campaigns or complete programme of work, potentially spanning months
• Managing costs and profitability for projects/campaigns/programmes of work
• Identifying and recommending opportunities to improve project plans and practises to senior management
• Leading and managing multi-disciplined teams

Resource Management

• Identifying and managing resources to ensure work is delivered to agreed standards of quality, time and cost
• Ensuring high quality estimates
• Project tracking and reporting
• Dealing with conflicting demands on the team

Client Relationships

• Be the main point of contact with the client
• Preparing Statements of Work (SOWs) and contracts
• Ensuring the client is receiving high quality work according to the agreed specification
• Providing regular progress reports, negotiating commercial aspects and ensuring invoicing is accurate

Qualifications

Essential

• Self-motivated with a proven track record of successfully managing digital projects of varying sizes particularly within Digital Strategy, SEO, PPC and Social Media
• Web, creative or digital agency background 
• Confident in customer management and ability to influence others and lead, particularly when discussing Digital Strategy, SEO, PPC and Social Media campaigns.
• Able to effectively manage multiple concurrent projects
• Commercial understanding and numeracy
• Ability to combine attention to detail, with understanding of “big picture” and trade-offs
• Comfortable in dynamic technical organisation with a rapidly expanding customer base
• Ability to interact and communicate with individuals at all levels of the organisation
• Strong communication skills, specifically in a strategic planning capacity
• Personable, helpful and professional attitude

Desirable

• Experience utilising Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Comfortable working with remote teams utilising collaboration tools (e.g. Zoom, Slack, Skype, etc.)
• Understanding of Project Management methodologies, e.g. Agile approaches (e.g. Scrum, SAFe), Waterfall, PRINCE2, etc.
• Enthusiasm for new technology and using it for problem solving and process improvement
• Experience of working in matrix environments with multiple stakeholders

Additional Information

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At The Adaptavist Group, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

What to expect

We have published some support on Interviewing with us to try to alleviate any pre-interview anxieties, here you’ll find information to help you prepare and ace an interview at TAG.

You can read them here

Equal opportunities for everyone

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.

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We look forward to your application!