Alchemy Digital is a friendly, small digital agency with a reputation for designing and building world class websites. This role is pivotal to the success and the growth of the business over the next few years.

The day-to-day

Typically, a digital project manager will be:

• Managing the design and development of website for our clients
• Liaising and updating stakeholders on the status of projects
• Advising clients on cost, available resources, problems and solutions
• Tracking the project deliverables and matching those with agreed deadlines
• Reporting on success criteria for delivered projects by measuring results
• Allocating tasks, and resrouces to the design and development team at Alchemy
• Keeping track of latest digital campaign trends and analysing digital behaviour

Key Responsibilities

• Planning website design and development projects from the initial stages through to final delivery
• Continuously assessing working methods and processes and making recommendations for improvement
• Identifying and implementing KPIs and project milestones
• Reviewing project resources and providing an analysis on whether they meet the demands of the project
• Forming strong relationships with the client and developing communication channels between the relevant parties
• Ensuring key Service Level Agreements are met
• Regularly updating key stakeholders on project status
• Overseeing the project’s financial budget, notifying stakeholders of key cost implications, changes to budget, spending and cost changes
• Analysing the success of client website, producing reports and data analysis as supporting evidence
• Working as part of a team to win new business and develop current client relationships as part of the business pipeline
• Managing inbound client requests, budgeting for them and allocating them effectively into the studio.
• Developing outbound performance improvement plans for our client roster.

Key Skills

• Background in digital project management working on website projects from initial briefing to delivery
• Technical competence and understanding of WordPress, HTML5, HTML and CSS
• Evidence of working with Agile project management methodologies
• Multi-tasker with ability to juggle many projects
• At least five years of recent agency experience with strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Passion for IT, e-commerce and digital projects
• Creative flair and innovative approach

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Project management certification desirable
• Understanding of web technologies, such as WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Relevant Experience

• Proven experience of effectively managing large-scale projects from brief through to delivery
• Bonus point if you yourself were once a website developer, and can demonstrate advanced understanding of development techniques. (Soley to aid in planning /control rather than ever working on development activity yourself.
• Adept at building effective client relationships and working with several stakeholders to deliver targets
• Experienced in a range of project management software including PRINCE2, Agile and Waterfall
• Strong communication with excellent presentation, report writing and data analysis capabilities
• Ability to work under pressure, change direction when required and work on a range of client projects at the same time
• Experience of identifying business opportunities, building client relationships and seeking new business