Project Manager

The role of Project Manager is multifaceted; it requires someone with experience across a variety of disciplines and an ability to manage numerous client relationships. While a wider understanding of marketing and advertising is important for this role, those who apply must be able to show a clear understanding of the breadth of digital marketing.

- Reporting to an Account Director, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of a clients relationship.

- Your role will be to scope, implement and manage end-to-end large-scale projects, draw up project plans and timelines.

- Ensuring the integrated elements come together on time and meet stakeholder expectations for data integrity and product quality. These projects will span across the various digital channels - web applications, native mobile applications, social media, and tactical website implementations.

- This is a role based in Saudi, but you will need to work with our strategic and consulting teams across the network to deliver world-class online solutions. Those who believe in the power of digital technologies to change perceptions and change the world, and have the technical and strategic know-how to back that up, are welcome. We offer all our staff competitive salaries and the opportunity to grow as quickly as your ambition and capabilities allow you to.

A 100% digital agency, no added preservatives, and we're looking for true believers who are not only dedicated to embracing a digital lifestyle but also about spreading their love of it. You must be passionate about the web, well-versed in Internet technologies and trends, an early adopter and be willing to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment to deliver excellent work on time, on-budget and on-brief.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and coordinate the delivery of projects, ensuring they are executed to plan and timelines

- Be the touch point for the local client and off-shore production teams on all projects

- Fully understand client’s business goals and maintain current industry knowledge

- Monitor competitive environment

- Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance

- Consistently identify needs that others may not recognize and ensure approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs

- Communicate and document project status and strategic recommendations to team members and senior management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels

- Provide content supervision and quality assurance

- Serve as the primary point of contact with the client, managing their expectations with regard to timelines and deliveries

- Keep the team abreast of developments and or changes.

- Ability to provide guidance and direction to the team, in the form of a brief as well as any additional guidance once projects are under way

- Ability to envision and record the scope of a project scopes, requirements in terms of resources and associated cost proposals

- Working with the team to ensure that all projects are executed to plan by managing the entire briefing process, agency resources, as well as relationships with the various production groups involved.

- Must have previous exposure to driving response in the aspects of the customer lifecycle management including acquisition, retention, loyalty, growth, conversion, upsell, attrition and win-back.

- Must fully understand the client’s business and maintain current industry knowledge.

- Must take an active role in building the client’s business, generating new strategies and anticipating needs.

- Must make it a priority to Identify opportunities and new revenue streams within current engagements with clients.

- Ensure that account team produces all client work with the highest level of quality, ensuring that all deliverables (including creative) is on strategy.

- Assist with ongoing tracking of fiscal budgets and internal budgets.

- Ensure accuracy of all status and billing reports produced on behalf of your clients.

Required Skills:

- You must be passionate about the web

- 5 or more years of experience in a project management role within an interactive arm of an advertising agency, standalone digital shop or both in a project management role within an interactive arm of an advertising agency, standalone digital shop or both

- Demonstrated skills and experience working across digital channels

- Strong technical understanding of the internet and mobile platforms with CMS experience is a plus

- Demonstrated ability in project management using Microsoft Project or other tools

- Project management professional training such as PMI or Prince2 is desirable

- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical

- Strong technical background

- You should be able to provide business solutions proactively and work well under pressure

- You should be an influencer and have strong presentation and communication skills

- Strategic thinker

- Excellent time-management skills and attention to detail

- Strong relationship builder

- Literate in Arabic and English is a must

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