The Senior Digital Project Manager is responsible for both planning, managing and delivering projects; and helping to optimize processes to ensure all projects meet objectives, budgets, deadlines, quality standards and are ultimately setup for success. 

The role will primarily require solid experience and understanding of producing and localising digital advertising campaigns across the region (including DCO/personalization); but will also need experience developing digital experiences, covering UX/UI design, creative and technology. Being part of such a broad and evolving landscape, the candidate must possess a deep passion for digital and marketing technologies, with a continuous learning mindset. The role is both internal and client-facing – you will be responsible for managing and guiding internal teams and collaborating closely with creative agencies and media partners. Planning and delivering projects will involve working with team members from various disciplines (creative, technology, moving image) based locally, regionally and globally. 

Key Responsibilities:  

Digital expertise: An internal source of expertise in the digital field with broad knowledge of digital ecosystems and their interactions with business strategy and marketing campaigns. This includes a deep understanding of display and video advertising (adservers, best practices, DCO) and the drive to proactively research and understand emerging trends and developments in digital marketing and experience in order to advise and guide stakeholders.•      Scoping and documentation: Requirements gathering and elicitation, creation of project documentation, including clear SOWs and functional specifications 

•      Cost estimates: Gathering effort estimates from relevant resources and teams, creating project cost estimates and proposals, controlling scope and costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget. This includes resource planning, budgeting and project reconciliation.

•      Resource management: identifying and scheduling the right resources for projects across globally distributed project teams; defining roles and responsibilities (RACI) in the project

•      Time management: Timeline planning for both simple and complex projects, with the ability to ensure timely completion of projects, whether fast-turnaround digital campaign projects (1 day-1 month turnaround) or web projects with multiple dependencies

•      Briefing: Efficiently creating clear briefs for tasks, leaving no room for assumption, ambiguity or misinterpretation. Close collaboration with team members and resources to ensure timely and high-quality implementation of tasks

•      Quality management: Meticulous attention to detail when reviewing project deliverables, and the ability to ensure that every project delivery meets the quality needs of the brief, best practice and client expectations. 

•      Communications management: Proactive management of internal and external stakeholder expectations; clear and articulate communication with team members and clients from different backgrounds and time zones

•      Risk management: The ability to identify, analyse, and properly respond to project risks

•      Project management methodology: Strong understanding of project management methodologies and processes

•      Stakeholder management: The ability to guide and manage stakeholders (clients, partners, internal) throughout the entire project lifecycle – ensuring all are aligned to the objectives, scope of work, timeline, RACI and risks identified

•      Organization: The ability to juggle a varied workload (e.g fast-paced display campaigns and web projects) and to priorities time effectively  

•      5+ Years Project Management Experience within Digital Production 

•      Passion for all things digital - driven by technology and innovation 

•      Strong knowledge of digital advertising (static, HTML5) and social media content production 

•      Strong knowledge of the end-to-end website and application development process and considerations – from discovery and UX, through to design, development and deployment 

•      Experience with project management tools such as Jira

•      Experience working with and managing globally distributed project teams (in different timezones)

•      Process driven – able to adopt and enforce global processes, and proficient defining and improving where appropriate.