Digital Project Manager at Hogarth

About the Job

What Does A Digital Project Manager do at Hogarth?

• The Digital Project Manager is responsible for both planning, managing and delivering projects; and providing strategic expertise across digital initiatives – ensuring all meet objectives, budgets, deadlines, quality standards and are ultimately optimised for success.
• The role is both internal and client-facing, and implementing projects will involve collaborating with teams across various disciplines (creative, technology, moving image) located both in-house and offshore.
• Key focus areas include implementation of digital advertising campaigns, including dynamic creative in display and video for personalisation; as well as the development of digital experiences, covering UX, creative and technology. Being part of such a broad and evolving landscape, the Project Manager must possess a deep passion for digital and marketing technologies, with a continuous learning mindset.

Key Responsibilities:
All Project Managers must have proven experience of the following competencies:

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

Qualifications
Skills

• 3+ 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
• Experience with personalisation (DCO) implementation and best practices, including knowledge of adservers and CMPs
• Strong knowledge of the end-to-end website development process and considerations – from discovery and UX, through to design, development and deployment
• Experience with Content Management and CRM systems
• Experience with project management tools
• Experience working with and managing globally distributed project teams (in different timezones)

Qualities

• A positive, team player
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive and self-motivated
• A problem solver
• Calm under pressure
• Continuous learning mindset