Senior Project Manager

Job Description

THE BIG PICTURE

Bernadette is a digital experience agency and part of VCCP Group. VCCP is the challenger agency for challenger brands, with over 1500 people around the world. We offer full-service marketing and brand experience solutions from advertising to media buying, content production to data science, customer mapping to platform design & build.

Bernadette is a friendly and knowledgeable team of 80 specialists across Strategy & Data, UX, Design, Motion, Technology & Engineering, Project & Account Management and Operations, all dedicated to creating great work across all digital channels.

Bernadette means ‘Brave as a bear’. Being brave as a bear is having the confidence to face any challenge. It’s having a relentless curiosity. Fearlessly breaking new ground and having a passionate pioneering digital spirit.

OUR CULTURE

VCCP Group has a unique culture, and we are looking for people who will make a positive contribution to this, therefore the candidate must have the following attributes:

● A collaborative nature

● An entrepreneurial spirit

● Take pride in their work

● Have an honest approach

● Be un-precious and be able to recognise that a good idea can come from anywhere

● Take responsibility

THE ROLE

The Project Management team is 20 strong and integral to delivering great work across the whole agency. We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our team who thrives on learning, developing and inputting into projects and teams, not just “managing” them.

You will have the ability to apply your experience and skills to different project types from integrated campaign production to platform development, adapting approaches and ways of working to suit the project requirements and overall context.

In addition to project management, you will work closely with the Project Directors and leadership team to ensure the team is supported to follow best practice and deliver world-class work.

To succeed, you must be creative and technical, strategic and executional, artistic and scientific. You excel at the opposite ends of the spectrum and find a middle ground without descending into mediocrity.

The successful candidate will be someone who can demonstrate how they will bring a robust yet flexible approach to the role, they will show energy and enthusiasm for the discipline of delivery as well as a hunger to push the boundaries for more innovative solutions. They will be a team player, yet be someone who can be self-sufficient and show real problem solving skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensuring the successful delivery of a high profile and exciting digital projects from conception through delivery within the projected time frames.
• Developing work plans, timelines and budget estimates, ensuring that development proceeds smoothly, efficiently and to a defined process.
• Facilitating technical, design, creative, and strategic team members to execute the project within the spirit and specifications outlined by the client.
• Writing and maintaining project documentation such as Statements of Work, project plans, risk registers, burn reports.
• Working with a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external
• Regularly reporting to the relevant clients and internally on the status of assigned projects.
• Ensuring the project meets or exceeds budgeted financial objectives, including revenue and margin.
• Ensuring that project risks have been identified and risk management mitigation is undertaken
• Working with the Ops Team to assign and direct appropriate resources

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Confident in managing large and complex digital projects with large project teams.
• Solution-orientated
• Helpful, flexible and resourceful, yet delivery focused
• Strong commercial awareness
• An excellent communicator with strong team management skills
• Calm, positive and optimistic even when under pressure
• Experience working in fast-paced environments
• Strives to learn, grow and to expand experience.
• Experience scoping, briefing, documenting, timeline management, risk mitigation, change management, and delivery for large projects
• Experience in delivering both digital communications and web solutions projects
• Experience in managing the delivery of high-volume traffic, consumer facing websites & platforms (e.g. e-commerce, rewards, or transactional systems)
• Ability to work with Strategy, data, UX and design and technical teams to deliver high quality work
• Experience in Agile / Iterative based processes whilst working towards fixed goals & deadlines.

If this sounds like you or someone you know, then we'd love to hear from you!

VCCP DE&I STATEMENT

We believe that DE&I is about creating a strong culture of inclusion within our agency, where everyone can thrive and be their authentic self. VCCP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or ethnicity. If you require any adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know via [email protected].

CRIMINAL RECORDS INFORMATION

As part of our onboarding process, you will be required to complete a Criminal Records Declaration regarding any unspent convictions. For roles in finance, HR, Legal, IT or senior management, we may be required to verify your declaration with a basic DBS check, as well as an Adverse Finance and ID check.

**Please note, we try to respond to as many applications as possible but, if you do not hear from us within two weeks of submitting your application, please assume we are unable to proceed with your application for this specific role. Thank you for your interest in VCCP**