You will be responsible for projects with budgets up to and sometimes in excess of £1m. You will have a successful track record of managing a number of concurrent projects, preferably within an agency environment and be really committed to delivering amazing results. You must have 5 year’s experience of budget holding responsibility project management for web application or user experience driven software.
Key responsibilities of the role include :
– Responsibility for the delivery of enterprise web application projects up to £1m in value, on time and budget and to quality. Able to ensure that functional and non-functional (performance, infrastructure, security) requirements are given equal priority to achieve the final result.
– Leadership of a highly experienced team of professionals in disciplines from business analysis to performance testing. Able to link up specialists in our team with specialists on client side and keep track of both.
– To proactively manage the PID and specification of the project using tenacity, commercial awareness and whilst maintaining a sense of urgency.
– To manage internal and external risk exceptionally well, being confident to challenge unclear requirements or aspirations, ensuring a win-win result.
– To be able to apply your 5 years plus experience of project management techniques – estimating, detailed MS Project plan development, dependency mapping, WBS production, progress tracking, risk management, test cycle management to lead to a successful result.
– Keeping accurate, organised records of all aspects of the project, including management of PIDs, Issue Logs, Risk Logs and Project Finance, providing a complete audit trail of decisions, project progress sign-offs and caveats, which would enable a third party to continue to manage the project at any point.
– Full profitability accounting including reporting and cash flow monitoring on a per account basis and track on a weekly basis on any monitoring systems in place.
– Getting informed of developments in digital marketing technology to a suitable standard for client management at executive level, empathising with the priorities and needs of a range of customers from public sector to private.
Mandatory skills :
• 5 years plus demonstrable experience of web application / user experience driven software development project management preferably in an agency environment
• Responsibility for overseeing the production of technical documentation such as specifications and/or wireframes
• Ability to project manage unit testing, system testing, SIT and UAT practices (in conjunction with the test manager)
• Good understanding of web application technology and the current marketplace
• Proactive, customer focused and able to act with urgency (please think hard about whether this describes you – don’t apply if it doesn’t)
In addition to these skills we are looking for someone who is passionate about the web and thrives from working in a team of like-minded people.
In return we will give the right candidate the following benefits:
• Great salary (30k – 45k) depending on experience
• Contributory (3%) Pension
• ChildCare voucher scheme
• Cycle purchase scheme
• Training
• Social events
• Subsidised gym membership
• Seriously good coffee and more!
To apply for this post please send the following to sara.packer@sequence.co.uk
• Your updated CV and salary expectation
• A brief note explaining why you want to develop your career at Sequence