Senior Project Manager
Newcastle upon Tyne
£ 40000 - 50000/annum
Blair West is supporting a successful digital agency based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in its search for a Senior Project Manager to grow capability within the team. Building exceptional digital experiences for their clients, their customers, and users, they take pride in exceeding client expectations.
The opportunity:
* Take the lead on planning, managing and executing multiple digital projects, including managing the wider project team and budget.
* Using your natural detail orientation, you will thrive on keeping those plates spinning.
* Motivate multi-disciplinary teams to hit deadlines, overcome challenges, simplify complexity, and deliver transformative digital solutions.
You’ll be the ideal candidate for this role if you have:
* A solid understanding of software development life cycle models.
* Expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices (and the expertise to pragmatically blend techniques to deliver the best result).
* Demonstratable success implementing software or web development projects using Agile methodologies.
* Scrum certifications (or be working towards them) would be a bonus.
* Skills in managing multiple projects simultaneously.
* Experience overseeing multi-disciplinary project teams including UX, Creative, Developers and QA.
* Budgetary control and stakeholder reporting.
* The ability to engender trust and build confidence with clients, meet them f...