Project Manager

**Overview**

** 4 day work week (on a full-time contract)**

This isn't a role or company that we see very often.

Due to excellent growth, a brilliantly led digital business based in Chester, is looking for a passionate Project Manager, who enjoys lead generation through marketing methods, thinking differently and adding real value, to join their growing team.

The company are a digital agency, who are among the best at what they do in the UK and the only ones in the North West, therefore, the projects worked on are more focused on partnership with clients.

The team operate on a 4 day work week instead of 5 days on full-pay and remote working.

**The Role**

Reporting to the Head of Development the Project Manager will join the Delivery Studio and help the team to successfully deliver amazing, industry-leading digital projects for a range of clients, working across multiple departments. Role responsibilitiesinclude but are not limited to:

- Manage and deliver multiple large and complex projects concurrently, controlling project budgets, scope and quality.
- Be the hub of communication for your projects - in regular contact with internal and external partners and preparing regular project status reports.
- Encourage and facilitate collaboration. Set up projects in Zoho Projects to give full visibility but allow the team to collaborate independently.
- Create robust and realistic plans including schedules using internal tools and templates.
- Work with client’s third party agencies suppliers to jointly scope, manage and deliver campaigns when appropriate.
- Be on top of your projects and know timings, key milestones, budgets, resourcing, risks, etc.
- Own project governance and ensure adequate logging of change requests, issues and risks.
- Be firm but fair in judgement: push back when scope creep or suggested budgets are not realistic whilst understanding the constraints of the client.
- Understand the workings and needs of the account you are partnered with; have a good understanding of the client’s needs and adapt your communication and project plans to fit their unique circumstances.
- Be commercially aware: At all times have an idea of the status of the budget of your projects; any variations from budget accounted for and where possible mitigated flagging all budget risks to the Head of Operations.
- Maintain a high level of knowledge within your field and be a key person whose opinion and advice on project delivery is actively sought by clients and colleagues.
- Be able to confidently communicate with clients effectively and independently and support the wider Project Team in handling challenging issues.
- Actively seek to improve project procedures and work with the Operations team to update project policies and processes to improve efficiency and quality.
- Ensure that internal and client sign-offs are obtained on all key project deliverables, and that you have an audit trail.

**Personal Requirements**

**Essential**
- Professional project management qualification such as PRINCE2, APM PMQ, PMP or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years of experience in digital development and project management are required.
- Excellent understanding of web technologies such as.NET, CSS, Umbraco CMS, APIs and Apps.
- Experience in using and administering project management tools such as Zoho Projects, budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software.
- Experience in a digital agency environment.

**Some things that might give you that extra edge**
- Previous experience within a similar role
- A Business/Management or Information Technology degree
- HubSpot Certifications, i.e. Inbound, Inbound Marketing, Growth-Driven Design Agency. (You can enrol right now on the hubspot academy website to gain access to these free courses - they’ll look great on your CV)
- Excel skills
- Experience with HTML/CSS, Adobe Creative Suite, CMS

**The Package**
- **£35,000 to £40 000 base plus extensive benefits**:

- Private healthcare cover & pension
- 23 days annual leave + Bank Holidays (Also close for at least 10 days over Christmas)
- Anniversary gifts - increasing with each year - to include a paid-for holiday on 5 and 10 years, plus additional days holiday, team lunches and company celebrations - we really do like to make a fuss of our colleagues.
- Annual 'away days' somewhere fun and exciting to strategise and reset
- Personal development opportunities - we've sent employees all over the world to train in their field
- Flexible start & finish times - we're happy to consider all forms of flexible working
- Remote work flexibility with HQ based in Chester (Some level of attendance required)
- Free parking