Digital Project Manager

Join A Local Team With A Global Footprint

Ogilvy Social.Lab is setting global benchmarks in digital marketing and is driven by offering our expertise to both local and international clients through a multi-market footprint.

We have enabled 'borderless ways of working', operating as connected teams and providing Creative, Content, Media and Intelligence capabilities to Ogilvy agencies and clients in more than 20 countries.

Join our globally connected team and work on challenging projects that transcend borders. Embrace a career that takes you to new horizons and make a global impact!

We are looking for a Digital Project Manager

Ogilvy Social.Lab is looking for an experienced Digital Project Manager with a strong digital background to nurture and develop some of the most loved and established national and international brands.

The Digital Project Manager coordinates various digital projects from briefing to delivery, including resource and time planning. A thorough understanding of (and appreciation for) Digital is required to fulfill this role.

Responsibilities:

• Partners 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 efficencies.
• 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.

Qualifications

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

• Fulltime job
• Local and Global client portfolio
• Attractive package and benefits
• Continuous trainings. Career conversation and growing opportunities