Digital Project Manager at Ogilvy South Africa

Digital Project Manager

• The Digital Project Manager coordinates various digital projects from briefing to delivery, including resource and time planning. A thorough understanding of (and appreciation for) UX/UI, Development, SEO and Data is required to fulfill this role.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with capability leads in ensuring that project objectives are defined and clear, and team capabilities and skills are engaged successfully to achieve objectives.
• Resource Forecasting - Plan accurate resource forecast based on an objective view of the current and future project pipeline.
• Project Spend Reporting - Understands how project success impacts on margin. Can partner with the account and product management team to course correct overspend. Applies change management process within projects to drive efficiencies.
• Post Project Analysis - Partners with leads on analysis of the total project budget against the total project cost (based on timesheet hours) ensures that all learnings form part of future briefs.
• Staff Forecasting - Forecasting the resources needed to staff a portfolio. Ensuring that the skill set, and experience matches requirement.
• Presenting - Capability of clearly presenting thoughts, ideas, structure, and form, both verbally and visually.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate would have the following background:

• Digital PM experience with exposure to Development (A Must).
• Ability to accurately scope out new projects: breaking down deliverables and requirements, structuring the projects, identifying correct resources, putting together costs/time. (PM tool experience with Smartsheets, Workbook, Trello, Asana and Jira).
• Ability to schedule, track and prioritise the work correctly with critical deadlines and milestones.
• Tracking project spend, burn rate and resource capacity.
• Can deal with any day-to-day issues but still able to have a bigger picture view of project portfolios.
• Flagging any risk upfront and solving any blockages.
• Liaising with product management and account management to ensure all deliverables are met and Budgets are adhered too.
• Ability to keep a team motivated and moving forward.