Overview
2025 is all about growth here at Squiz🚀
We are currently looking to add a Senior Project Manager to our team who has experience delivering digital or web based projects on time and in budget. You enjoy collaborating and managing various teams to a schedule, working closely with your clients to keep them informed and updated throughout the project lifecycle.
Location: London/Edinburgh or at least able to visit the office of either on a regular basis
Responsibilities
* Working with one of our cross functional development squads, implementing projects for our clients.
* Collaborating closely with Squiz's customers, ensuring their objectives are heard and understood so that Squiz work can bring business value to them.
* Supporting the team in planning, optimizing and prioritizing workload; ensuring that projects are delivered on time and to budget, effectively utilizing each squad member while delivering exceptional value for customers.
* Driving parallel projects from initiation to completion with strong organisation, focus, and clear stakeholder communication and management.
* Embodied agile mindset, utilizing lean project management tools and methods to take care of the squad and project delivery based on best industry practices.
* Predicting resources needed to reach objectives and managing resources in an effective and efficient manner.
* Preparing budget estimations based on scope of work and resource requirements.
* Preparing SOWs, quotes and contributing to new business proposals.
* Proactively managing projects' budgets, and producing detailed reporting on project budget spend to date vs planned spend to date as well as total forecasted spend to completion. Collaboratively determine and define project scope and objectives ensuring they are aligned to customer's business goals.
* Developing and managing detailed project schedules and work plans.
* Regularly reporting on projects' progress to customers and internally.
* Proactively managing and reporting on projects' risks and issues including mitigation plans. Defining project and quotation assumptions.
* Providing project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress.
* Promoting collaborative working, especially with the customer by building strong professional relationships.
Ideally you will have
* Experience as a project manager from the IT/Tech consulting/digital agency industry working with external clients (government clients a bonus).
* Experience delivering website, digital, CMS or Digital Experience related projects (SDLC).
* Demonstrable experience applying Agile principles to project delivery.
* Experience with industry tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project (or equivalent).
* Understanding of a software delivery lifecycle, phases, stage gates, etc.
* Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget and timeline.
* Strong experience managing project budgets according to various commercial models (focus on fixed price and T&M).
* Experience dealing with client escalations as the main point of contact.
* Experience in an agency or consulting environment where multi projects and team utilization are common.
* Outstanding presentation and relationship-building skills and comfort presenting at senior levels and in formal government environments.
* Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
* Strong interpersonal and creative problem-solving skills.
* Please note this is not a marketing project manager role. This role requires experience managing web based development projects. Websites, intranets, portals etc.
Must be Eligible to gain an Enhanced Security Clearance - more details can be found here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels
Benefits
* Squiz Flex - flexibility to work from home or office
* 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Company Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day
* Open Door Policy - No need to worry about chain of command here at Squiz
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - 24/7 confidential support for you and your family
About Squiz
Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online.
Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.
The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.
We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.
Why work for Squiz?
You'll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you've ever meet. We are made up of a diverse range of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we all love what we do.
We have a lived commitment to flexibility, we know the success of our people is dependent on them having a balanced life. You will be offered flexibility as to where and how you work every day. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.
Come as you are - We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with "why?" to really understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do. We also check our egos at door, we don't take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.
We understand the effort it takes to apply for a role. We are committed to respond to each and every applicant, successful or not.
Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Project Management and Information Technology
Industries: Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education
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