Senior Digital Project Manager

Placed: 06/12/17
Region: United Kingdom
Category: Jobs


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Do you want to be the driver of a campaign for an exciting digital transformation plan?

About us
Leaders Romans Group is one of the leading pioneers within the property industry. The group comprises two consumer facing brands (Romans and Leaders) both have experienced rapid growth on the principle of evolving to our customers needs. The group has ambitious plans to become a front-runner in digital, this not only includes developing sophisticated websites to; increase our client base, improve client retention and client experience - but to also establish new touch points via new digital platforms (e.g. mobile applications, client portals, artificial intelligence, virtual reality) to ensure the group maintains a competitive advantage. You will also be starting work in a brilliant new modern office space (thats just for the digital development team!) in Wokingham that includes restaurant, showers and break-out areas.

About the role
To be the owner of all digital projects this will see you taking project concepts from grass roots and holding kick-off meetings with stakeholders to identify; business vision, strategy, commercials, scope statements, risks/rewards, compliance requirements. Once projects have been identified it will be up to you to build comprehensive project plans that include all key components; commercial cost, ROI, defining roles and responsibilities (SMEs, project team, staffing plans, end users), scheduling. Following project sign off, it will be your role to hold daily/weekly project meetings to manage the project implementation (to budget and time) and effectively communicate updates with the business.

About you
You will be an advocate and champion for our extensive digital transformation plans, you will own and manage our project road map, and your role will be the key component that pulls projects from their inception, into commercial project plans and facilitates their implementation.

You will be;
- Enthusiastic, confident and able to deliver high quality digital projects
- A personable individual that can build relationships with colleagues and suppliers
- Commercially astute enabling you to build commercial costs into projects and measure ROI, which can be communicated back to stakeholders
- Able to motivate project teams to deliver high quality output, to plan and to budget
- Able to proactively identify problems with meeting projects deadlines before they happen, and be able to quickly and decisively come up with plans to resolve issues
- Well versed in managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Able to work within an Agile methodology
- Able to identify efficient project patterns or better working methodologies that deliver the best output
- Able to manage project ticketing, ensuring tickets are properly prioritised and resolved in priority order
- Experience working collaboratively with 3rd party software providers to deliver integrations required by the business e.g. establishing APIs or redefining an API requirement with a software provider

In return we offer a competitive salary package, full induction and training, and the opportunity to grow your expertise at an expanding company that can offer you a rewarding and progressive career.

Due to the high volume of applications that we receive, if you are not contacted within 10 days then your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. Please keep reviewing our vacancies in case a suitable position arises in the future. We wish you every success with your job search.

The closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we would advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment