Senior Project Manager

Role Summary

The Senior Project Manager has day-to-day responsibility for the smooth and effective running of a range of digital projects, across a wide range of clients at Unipro. You will be confident managing project teams and delivering large projects with budgets in the region of £1m+, including digital applications and website development.

To succeed you must be in control of your projects yet allow ideas the space and freedom to thrive. You see and understand the big picture but are also the expert of the project specifics and the detail of what it takes to deliver it on time, to budget whilst delighting the client and end users. You excel at switching seamlessly between conceptual, visionary thinking and pragmatism to find a happy middle-ground, avoiding the mediocre compromise. You will be supported in this as part of a structured Project Management team, within which you will have opportunities to learn and to grow your career further.

What will happen when I join? 

You will be personally welcomed by our department heads and your line manager, and given plenty of chance to ask questions. You will then be onboarded into your team and work closely with team members to ensure you have the best experience possible.

What will be my day-to-day responsibilities?

You are a project leader and facilitator with proven skills and experience in the following: effective project set up and initiation, budget control, project tracking and reporting, risk and issue management, quality assurance and project resourcing.

Experience in different project management methodologies with opinions about what to use when and why is vital.

The Senior Project Manager oversees all factors that govern project success to ensure delivery within time, cost, and quality parameters. The Senior PM also provides guidance, support and is an exemplar of best-practice approach and behaviour for junior and mid-weight Project Managers.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of a range of digital projects, throughout the full project lifecycle, for multiple and diverse clients.
• Manages and delivers multiple workstreams for various types of digital projects within multiple accounts, to agreed scope, timings, budget, and quality.
• Main point of project-level communication – in regular contact with internal and external partners engaged in delivering the project.
• Constantly analyse the areas that could potentially throw the delivery off track, log these risks and list what you plan to do to mitigate against them.
• Be on top of your projects and manage timings, key milestones, budgets, resourcing, risks.
• On a weekly basis, report project tracking, including hours and budget spent to date, estimated hours and budget at completion (EAC). Escalate any projects at risk – based of variance from baseline on delivery dates or budget overspend to the PMO.
• Facilitate scoping and planning sessions with the wider team to ensure appropriate estimates can be shared with the client, from initial ballparks, to detailed planning and costs for more accurate proposals.
• Produce project documentation, including Statement of Work (SoW), RACI, Risk log.
• In conjunction with the Account Manager, provide appropriate reporting to the client of any changes or potential impact to agreed project deliverables.
• Assess the time and financial impact of changes and communicate to clients as appropriate.
• Mentoring, providing guidance and a best-practice behaviour example to junior and mid-weight Project Managers.

What skills and experience do I need?

If you can fulfil most of the following attributes, skills and experience shown below, this could well be the job for you:

• At least 6 years’ experience delivering digital projects, within in a fast-paced agency environment.
• Strong commercial awareness.
• Solutions orientated, focusing on delivering customer benefit.
• Problem solver – analytical, logical, and creative in equal measure.
• Flexible, helpful, resourceful, yet always delivery focused.
• Reliable team player who promotes collaboration.
• Keen interest in digital technology and how it can be utilised to solve complex problems.
• Has a diplomatic approach to all situations.
• An excellent communicator with strong team management skills. Distils complex ideas into concise written and verbal descriptions.
• Positive and calm under pressure.
• Can quickly separate the important tasks from the trivial with ability to identify the most useful next steps.
• Excels under pressure and can take on multiple challenges simultaneously
• Highly adept at least 2 mainstream project management methodologies, applicable to software development.
• Website development experience incorporating knowledge of usability best practices.
• Demonstrable experience managing large and complex projects with large project teams.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Familiarity with delivering projects in a highly regulated environments such as pharma or fintech.
• Knowledge and understanding of Low-Code platforms, including OutSystems.
• Experience as an Agile Delivery Lead is advantageous.
• Scrum Master certification.
• Familiarity with web content management systems (CMS), such as Drupal, WordPress, or other CMSs.
• Experience with one or more web analytics platforms.

What is the application process? 

At Unipro, we want all candidates to feel welcomed, confident, and ready to showcase their potential and capabilities. 

We know pursuing a new career opportunity can be daunting. We strive for our process to be empathetic and considerate of both the candidates we meet along the way and the team members we introduce to you. Interviewing can be stressful and often filled with self-doubt or the imposter syndrome, and we get that. We’ve outlined our process in hopes that it will help dissipate any of those sentiments. 

By the end of the interviewing experience at Unipro, we aim to provide every candidate with a realistic preview of their work-life in the company. Whether through the conversations with technical team members or with leadership, we want you to walk away feeling seen, heard, and given every opportunity to succeed. 

Here’s what you can expect: 

1. Introductory phone call with a member of the talent acquisition team. Typically, 20 minutes or so, this is an opportunity for you to get to know Unipro, and there will be plenty of time to ask any questions. 
2. This will be followed by a video chat with our PMO Lead to discuss the more in-depth aspects of the role and how it fits into the organisation (60 minutes) 
3. If we can’t decide between candidates or if there are more questions to cover off, we will arrange a second interview with one of the Senior Project Managers so you can ask any further questions you may have about the company or the role, and where they will talk to you about some of the projects we work on.

Once a candidate has successfully completed each stage of the interview process, the team gathers to discuss each stage carefully. Once there is agreement, an offer will then be made. We will do our best to provide as much verbal feedback as possible. 

Our goal is to have candidates complete the interview process within two weeks. However, we can accelerate or decelerate as needed based on a candidate’s preference and availability. 

How to Apply

About Unipro 

We pride ourselves on our ability to listen to the needs and wants of our clients and to tailor a bespoke solution to whatever challenges they’re faced with. Our strength comes from a wealth of in-house knowledge and expertise and a drive to challenge the status quo. 

Reading this specification marks the start of a fantastic opportunity for you to join our company – a company that truly cares for its employees and that nurtures talent and potential to further secure our position as a major player in the digital transformation workspace.