Job Specifications
2025 is all about growth here at Squiz !
We are currently looking to add a Senior Project Manager to our team who has experience delivering digital or web based projects on time and in budget. You enjoy collaborating and managing various teams to a schedule, working closely with your clients to keep them informed and updated throughout the project lifecycle.
Location: London/Edinburgh or at least able to visit the office of either on a regular basis
What you will be doing in this role
Working with one of our cross functional development squads, implementing projects for our clients
Working and collaborating closely with Squiz's customers, ensuring their objectives are heard, and understood so that Squiz work can bring business value to them.
Support the team in planning, optimizing and prioritizing their workload; ensuring that projects are delivered on time and to budget, effectively utilizing each squad member while delivering exceptional value for our customers
Driving parallel projects from initiation to completion with strong organisation, focus, and clear stakeholder communication and management
Embody the agile mindset, utilizing lean project management tools and methods to take care of their squad and project delivery based on best industry practices
Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
Prepare budget estimations based on scope of work and resource requirements
Prepare SOWs, quotes and contribute to new business proposals
Proactively manage projects' budgets, and produce detailed reporting on projects' budget spend to date vs planned spend to date as well as total forecasted spend to completion Collaboratively determine and define project scope and objectives ensuring they are aligned to customer's business goals
Develop and manage detailed project schedules and work plans
Regularly report on projects' progress both to customers and internally
Proactively manage and report on projects' risks, issues including mitigation plans. Define projects and quotation assumptions
Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
Promote collaborative working, especially with the customer by building strong professional relationships
Ideally you will have
Experience as a project manager from the IT/Tech consulting/digital agency industry working with external clients (experience with government clients will be a bonus)
Ideally you have experience delivering website, digital, CMS or Digital Experience related projects (SDLC)
Demonstrable experience applying Agile principles to project delivery
Experience working with common industry tools; JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project (or equivalent)
Understanding of a software delivery lifecycle, phases, stage gates etc
Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget and timeline
Strong experience managing project budgets according to various commercial models (with a focus on fixed price and T&M)
Experience dealing with client escalations as the main point of contact
Experience in an agency or consulting type environment where multi projects, team utilisation etc is common
Outstanding presentation and relationship building skills and very comfortable to present and communicate at senior levels and in formal government environments
Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
Strong interpersonal and creative problem solving skills
* Please note this is not a marketing project manager role. This role requires experience managing web based development projects. Websites, intranets, portals etc.
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Squiz Benefits
Squiz Flex - flexibility to work from home or one of our WeWork co-working spaces
30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
2 days of Compassionate Leave
Paid Parental Leave
Company Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day
Open Door Policy - No need to worry about chain of command here at Squiz
PS150 Annual Healthy Lifestyle Allowance
Excellent Career Development Opportunities
Who we are:
Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online.
Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.
The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.
We are headquartered in Australia, wit
About the Company
Build brilliant websites fast!
Squiz is the AI-powered DXP built for marketers. Regain independence, ease-of-use and speed. Create, optimize and govern enterprise-scale sites – without relying on devs for the day-to-day.
Other platforms weren't built for marketers. Squiz puts you back in control.
Marketers and digital teams need to move at the speed of change. You want to spin up landing pages, create content and test ideas with minimal tech reliance.
Free your devs to innovate. Everyone wins with Squiz!
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