Digital Project Manager

Ogilvy One is the Digital arm of Ogilvy South Africa.

We are focused on creating impactful relationships by design between our clients and their customers. We are on a mission to redefine the boundaries of creativity and technology. Our team is at the forefront of crafting innovative digital experiences that captivate, engage, and convert.

We are looking for a:

Digital Project Manager

The Digital Project Manager coordinates various digital projects from briefing to delivery, including resource and time planning. A thorough understanding of (and appreciation for) UX/UI, Development, SEO and Data is required to fulfil this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with capability leads in ensuring that project objectives are defined and clear, and team capabilities and skills are engaged successfully to achieve objectives.
• Resource Forecasting - Plan accurate resource forecast based on an objective view of the current and future project pipeline.
• Project Spend Reporting - Understands how project success impacts on margin. Can partner with the account and product management team to course correct overspend. Applies change management process within projects to drive efficiencies.
• Post Project Analysis - Partners with leads on analysis of the total project budget against the total project cost (based on timesheet hours) ensures that all learnings form part of future briefs.
• Staff Forecasting - Forecasting the resources needed to staff a portfolio. Ensuring that the skill set, and experience matches requirement
• Presenting - Capability of clearly presenting thoughts, ideas, structure, and form, both verbally and visually.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate would have the following background:

• Digital PM experience with exposure to Development (A Must)
• Ability to accurately scope out new projects: breaking down deliverables and requirements, structuring the projects, identifying correct resources, putting together costs/time. (PM tool experience with Smartsheets, Workbook, Trello, Asana and Jira)
• Ability to schedule, track and prioritise the work correctly with critical deadlines and milestones.
• Tracking project spend, burn rate and resource capacity.
• Can deal with any day-to-day issues but still able to have a bigger picture view of project portfolios.
• Flagging any risk upfront and solving any blockages.
• Liaising with product management and account management to ensure all deliverables are met and budgets are adhered too.
• Ability to keep a team motivated and moving forward.

Offer:

• Location Johannesburg or Cape Town.
• Hybrid model of 3:2.
• Local and Global client portfolio.