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
What you will be doing in this role
1. Working with one of our cross functional development squads, implementing projects for our clients.
2. Working and collaborating closely with Squiz’s customers, ensuring their objectives are heard, and understood so that Squiz work can bring business value to them.
3. Support the team in planning, optimizing and prioritizing their workload; ensuring that projects are delivered on time and to budget, effectively utilizing each squad member while delivering exceptional value for our customers
4. Driving parallel projects from initiation to completion with strong organisation, focus, and clear stakeholder communication and management.
5. Embody the agile mindset, utilizing lean project management tools and methods to take care of their squad and project delivery based on best industry practices.
6. Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
7. Prepare budget estimations based on scope of work and resource requirements
8. Prepare SOWs, quotes and contribute to new business proposals
9. Proactively manage projects’ budgets, and produce detailed reporting on projects’ 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
10. Develop and manage detailed project schedules and work plans
11. Regularly report on projects’ progress both to customers and internally
12. Proactively manage and report on projects’ risks, issues including mitigation plans. Define projects and quotation assumptions
13. Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
14. Promote collaborative working, especially with the customer by building strong professional relationships
Ideally you will have
15. Experience as a project manager from the IT/Tech consulting/digital agency industry working with external clients (experience with government clients will be a bonus)
16. Ideally you have experience delivering website, digital, CMS or Digital Experience related projects (SDLC)
17. Demonstrable experience applying Agile principles to project delivery
18. Experience working with common industry tools; JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project (or equivalent)
19. Understanding of a software delivery lifecycle, phases, stage gates etc.
20. Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget and timeline
21. Strong experience managing project budgets according to various commercial models (with a focus on fixed price and T&M)
22. Experience dealing with client escalations as the main point of contact
23. Experience in an agency or consulting type environment where multi projects, team utilisation etc is common
24. Outstanding presentation and relationship building skills and very comfortable to present and communicate at senior levels and in formal government environments
25. Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
26. 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 -
Squiz Benefits
27. Squiz Flex - flexibility to work from home or one of our WeWork co-working spaces
28. 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
29. 2 days of Compassionate Leave
30. Paid Parental Leave
31. Company Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day
32. Open Door Policy - No need to worry about chain of command here at Squiz
33. £150 Annual Healthy Lifestyle Allowance
34. Excellent Career Development Opportunities