Senior Project Manager - 3-6 Month Contract

At Horizontal Digital we hold ourselves to one key belief: Youre only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites apps portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy data design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lock arms

We forge relationships that make our impact 1000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

Show hustle

Were not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead we anticipate opportunities collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change

From new technologies to workplace philosophies we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate whats next.

Elevate empathy

We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle

We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger more inspiring ideas.

But enough about us. Lets talk about you.

We are looking for a Digital Project Manager who will lead full lifecycle digital transformation projects from inception to implementation using agile methodologies.

What youll do:

• Provide agile project management oversight for multiple projects:
• Define project objectives scope estimate timeline and level of effort.
• Develop project strategies and plans and identify the methods and tools required for the project.
• Keep projects on track and on budget while resolving issues with clients.
• Monitor progress and budget against plan.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
• Manage scope by coordinating and responding to requests for changes from original specifications.
• Ensure quality through planning execution quality assurance and quality control techniques.
• Identify analyze and mitigate risks to maximize the results and minimize the consequences.
• Work closely with the end users business technologists and other stakeholders to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs then develop system requirements and design specifications; direct efforts to refine conceptual systems design requirements into the technical design.
• Provide solutions leadership and motivation to project team members.

Who you are:

• You get it done. Grit is your middle name. You are organized have excellent time management skills and have spidey sense for issues before they arise. While doing all of that you have a positive attitude and delivery high quality work for clients.
• You are a natural leader. You are self-motivated with a high degree of initiative and follow-through. Mentoring others is something you do out of habit. You are eager to succeed and understand that putting in the work is the way to get where you want to be.
• Youre an outstanding communicator. You are able to convey information to all key stakeholders in both written and verbal formats. Preparing and delivering presentations is second nature.

What you bring:

• A minimum of 5 years client-facing digital project management experience preferably using agile methodologies.
• A minimum of 2 years agency/consultancy experience. 5 years preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience managing large scale website projects that include discovery strategy user experience creative design front end development website development QA deployments and maintenance.
• Prior exposure to digital marketing solutions such as Sitecore and Salesforce.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence preferred.
• Ability to earn SCRUM certification within 90 days.
• Arabic language is useful but not essential

Required Experience:

Senior IC