Annalect UK Project Manager - OMG UK
Annalect UK Project Manager - OMG UK
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About the Role:
- This Project Manager role plays a pivotal part in overseeing and ensuring the successful of complex client partner and strategic projects critical to revenue growth and organisational success.
- Act as a leaderfostering a culture of excellence and collaboration. Providing mentorship and guidance to agile project teams ensuring accountability and fostering a culture of high performance.
- Strategic Planning:Develop and communicate comprehensive project plans including detailed work breakdown structures timelines and milestones resource allocation margin and budget tracking. Collaborate with executive stakeholders to define project goals deliverables scope and strategic alignment. Manage the whole lifecycle of a project reporting on progress and managing risks and issues escalating where necessary to the project board and contributing to stakeholder updates where necessary.
- Timings and Project Plans:Define realistic project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organise and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports reporting on key performance indicators; proactively identify assess and manage project risks and issues implementing effective mitigation strategies correcting any deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects
- Resource Allocation:Allocate resources effectively manage track and reconcile project budgets track expenses to ensure projects are delivered within budgetary constraints. Report on project performance and resource allocation and capacity to the management team.
- Operational Excellence:Define and manage a welldefined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management methodologies and standards across the organisation. Identify opportunities for process improvement and streamline workflows to enhance operational efficiency. Identify and implement usage of agile tools to enhance efficiency and quality.
Experience:
- Ability to influence and motivate teams and influence executive management. Including exceptional communication skills and being a logical confident voice
- Demonstrable commercial acumen and the ability to translate that into scoping & resource planning.
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment
- Ability to manage a wide range of projects with a focus on quality budgets and timings
- Demonstrable experience in using project management tools such as Jira and Smartsheet to deliver medium to large projects on time
- Experience working with distributed teams advantageous
- A proven track record of successfully implementing software or web development projects using Agile methodologies including 4 years of experience as a Project Manager managing large complex projects in a hightech development environment with multifunction teams.
- Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies with enterpriselevel application development projects.
- PMIACP CSM or equivalent certification preferred.
- Experience overseeing multifunction project teams with at least 10 team members including Developers Data and Infrastructure Engineers Data Scientists and Product Managers.
- Sufficient level of technical background to provide credible leadership to development teams and to be able to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues.
About the Agency:
Omnicom Media Group UK (OMG UK) is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc. headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and Newcastle. OMG UK exists to power its four UK agencies OMD UK MG OMD PHD UK and Hearts & Science. The four agencies have open access to OMG UKs Centres of Excellence which provide marketleading capabilities across Digital Marketing Creative Solutions Investment and Futures.
OMG UK agencies are holders of numerous Agency and Network of the Year accolades alongside multiple awards at the Global Festival of Media Awards Cannes Lions The Drum Awards and IPA Effectiveness Awards.
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We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable you can email us confidentially at to let us know how we can support you.
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