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With a passion for all things digital, you are an experienced project manager who has repeatedly proven your ability to deliver, on time and on budget, complex digital projects.
Proactive, knowledgeable and keenly organized, you thrive in a leadership role and know how to get things done; you collaborate respectfully with client partners, effectively galvanize contributing teams, author technical documents with ease – and you have the skills and experience to manage milestones through challenging conditions to contain scope and ensure project specifications are met. You don’t mind putting that extra bit of effort in to get a project completed on time, and you are excited by change.
Ariad Communications is a strategic digital marketing agency working with some of Canada’s leading brands in financial services, CPG, health care, automotive, and telecommunications. Our digital work is wide-ranging and includes application and web site builds, CRM/lead nurture/email, and social media execution.
You will be responsible for:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
You bring extensive, leadership experience across the five process groups of project management:
Initiating: probing client objectives and mandatories to develop appropriate solutions; facilitating the creation of technical project briefs; outputting or overseeing PM documents including business requirements, project workflows, feature scope lists and future priorities; accurately forecasting resource utilization; providing cost estimates.
Planning: determining skill and resource requirements and assisting in the assembly of digital project teams; establishing tasks, sequence, milestones and dependencies; creating work-back schedules; authoring SOWs, SLAs, and other PM plans.
Executing: managing cross-functional teams including meaningful collaboration and consultation as required; actively monitoring and managing scope, schedule, budget and risk to foresee issues and manage stakeholder expectations; supervising technical vendor relationships and deliverables.
Monitor & Controlling: developing or overseeing QA & QC plans, change requests, budget control; ensuring timely and consistent project reporting.
Closing: leading post-mortem analysis; closing contracts and vendor relationships; overseeing the archival of project files.
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
As a senior-level PM, you will closely manage relationships with a range of clients, vendors and partners, ensuring top-quality service and delivery throughout – and beyond – project-based engagements. You will:
Be both the ‘client champion’ and the ‘project champion’.
Ensure the client perspective permeates all aspects of the project and is communicated internally.
Facilitate walkthroughs of requirements and design documents with client and project teams.
Level communications to ensure the target audience is meaningfully supported or informed.
Establish and maintain relationships with senior and technical client stakeholders, advising as required on all issues that relate to the scope of the agency’s engagement or digital expertise.
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
As a leader within the Project Management group, you will provide coaching, mentoring and guidance to progress the professional development of the team, and to strengthen and enhance the practice within the agency. This includes:
Adopting, modeling, enforcing and otherwise contributing to the overall improvement and quality of Ariad’s processes
Identifying excellence as well as skill gaps across the project management team, and mentoring, determining appropriate supports and overseeing career advancement planning.
Ensuring support team members (including creative, technical, and strategy) understand and execute against project management best-practices.
Assist in making resource recommendations and in staffing various digital programs.
Recognizing areas for internal process and practice improvement and working with the senior management team to implement and communicate change.
You Must Have:
A broad and deep understanding of project management methodology, including experience executing across Agile, Waterfall and Scrum.
Demonstrated experience in managing multiple digital projects specifically related to Mobile/Web solutions
Ability to translate complex technical concepts verbally and in writing, levelling communications appropriately to meaningfully inform the target audience.
An undergraduate degree in a related field.
It Would Be Nice to Have:
Experience working with large healthcare clients.
Experience working in a marketing/advertising agency environment.
Professional certifications such as PMP, CSM, or ITIL.
Knowledge of e-mail/CRM marketing.
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