Horizontal Digital

Senior Project Manager (3-6 month contract)

Horizontal Digital

Posted 6 hours ago

Employment Type

Contract

Location

Dubai

Requirements

5+ years client-facing digital project management experience, 2+ years agency/consultancy experience, 2+ years managing large scale website projects, Prior exposure to Sitecore and Salesforce, Experience with Jira/Confluence preferred, Ability to earn SCRUM certification within 90 days

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide agile project management oversight for multiple projects:
  • Define project objectives, scope, estimate, timeline and level of effort.
  • Develop project strategies and plans, and identify the methods and tools required for the project.
  • Keep projects on track and on budget while resolving issues with clients.
  • Monitor progress and budget against plan.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
  • Manage scope by coordinating and responding to requests for changes from original specifications.
  • Ensure quality through planning, execution, quality assurance, and quality control techniques.
  • Identify, analyze and mitigate risks to maximize the results and minimize the consequences.
  • Work closely with the end users, business technologists, and other stakeholders to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs, then develop system requirements and design specifications; direct efforts to refine conceptual systems design requirements into the technical design.
  • Provide solutions, leadership, and motivation to project team members.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years client-facing digital project management experience, preferably using agile methodologies.
  • A minimum of 2 years agency/consultancy experience. 5+ years preferred.
  • A minimum of 2 years of experience managing large scale website projects that include discovery, strategy, user experience, creative design, front end development, website development, QA, deployments, and maintenance.
  • Prior exposure to digital marketing solutions such as Sitecore and Salesforce.
  • Experience with Jira/Confluence preferred.
  • Ability to earn SCRUM certification within 90 days.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with digital and Salesforce project management
  • Arabic language is useful, but not essential

About the Company

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for ambitious companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lock Arms

We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

Show Hustle

We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, we anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change

From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what’s next.

Elevate empathy

We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle

We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.

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