Description
Interactive Project Manager/IPM/Web Project Manager/- Contract- Toronto, Canada
Interactive Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Work with the pursuit team to complete RFP's, project scoping, sizing and pricing estimates
- Drive project delivery through effective use of internal and client status meetings
- Partners with other project leaders to lead teams of 10-15 people. Builds and structures the project team to ensure maximum performance.
- Maintains awareness of the current industry environment that shapes opportunities for client solutions (ie news events, trends, mergers, etc.).
- Clarifies and communicates project objectives and success criteria.
- Develops relationships with, and ensures the appropriate participation of, key client stakeholders and client executives; Provides day-to-day project contact for the client
- Manage and control project scope and the change control process
- Manages the project financials including overall project budget
- Assure that projects complete according to schedule and within budget
Experience Guidelines
- At least 3-5 years of project management experience, from an interactive agency
- At least 3-5 years of leadership and/or management experience
- At least 2-5 years experience managing larger, more complex and cross functional interactive agency projects
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, negotiating, influencing, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, decision making, and conflict resolution skills
- Demonstrated ability to assume a leadership role in managing project, departmental and enterprise risks related to projects, systems and business analysis
- 3+ years of client management experience liaising with business owners and executive level clients
- Solid understanding of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations and run team meetings
- Strong knowledge of software development life cycles, web technologies, web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Proven mentoring, supervisory, and team-building skills