Description
Project Manager - DigitalContract until end of year
Up to £400 per day via umbrella only
Remote/Brentford
The NEXT team is looking for project management support for one of their priority programmes in Beta Phase (gearing to launch) to help accelerate cross functional teams' effort and hit delivery deadlines. The project is complex and multi-faceted (think of basically creating a start up from scratch); involving user experience design, app + direct to consumer site development + testing with diverse marketing tech stack, physical products design, procurement and supply chain, content production + quality check and sign off, finance, marketing launch planning (to quote a few ).
Ideal profile is a jack of all trades project manager that is digital native, lives and breathes agile methodologies, has a passion for understanding and learning customer behaviours to create memorable user-experiences and that brings constant positive puppy energy to the team in order to enable speed and hit delivery deadlines whilst having fun and maintaining an efficient & cohesive team spirit.
Responsibilities and Duties:
The goal is to organize the teams and work to help the program find a rhythm to free up time for optimization. You will be an essential element of the team whose voice would be valued and will not only project manage but often also partake in the actual work when relevant.
Activities:
o 60% of time:
- Conduct Project kick-off with workstream leads and key stakeholders. Determine a consistent process for request intake and help to align with existing resources
- Create basic project structure for the project; documentation storage, project status cadence, team communication methods, role & responsibilities/RACI Matrix
- Create status reports and executive readouts to ensure communication on project health is clear to workstream leads as well as senior leaders and people are aligned
- Provide input to team on product management and E-commerce strategy
- Lead E2E testing pre go live
Qualifications:
Min 5 years' experience in Project Management both in SME + big companies
Ideally experience in digital product development from idea inception to MVP with track record of coordinating multiple cross functional teams
Product Management
Agile Methodologies (ideally scrum master certification)
Design Thinking
Digital Strategy
Client & Stakeholder Relations
Customer Experience
Customer Research
Business Analysis
JIRA/Confluence
Adobe Suite