Project Manager

Job Overview 

As a Senior Project Manager at Loop Horizon, you will be leading across a range of engagements to deliver implementation and support of our client projects. You’ll be working closely with our internal Client Leads, Marketing and Development teams to shape and scope out what’s needed and deliver the best outcomes for our clients.

Your responsibilities will include working with the client and internal teams to scope out delivery, ensuring that projects are initiated successfully and that all parties are clear on scope and success criteria

Successful delivery of project outcomes via:

• Delivery Planning and Orchestration: Build, track and own project plans, identifying key milestone, roles and responsibilities and monitoring progress versus plan; ensure effective forums are in place across the delivery teams to monitor progress and identify issues (e.g. daily stand ups)
• Financial Management:Manage budget, forecasts and resource burn down activities; ensure all activities are completed within the forecast resource budget 
• StakeholderManagement: Ensure clear and effective communications plans and strategies are in place to ensure timely status updates and on progress; issues and risks
• RiskManagement: Manage any actions, risks, issues and dependencies; using creativity and initiative to resolve and escalating as needed 
• Governance:  Establish effective project governance, ensuring that effective decision-making processes are in place to adequately steer engagements to successful outcomes
• TeamSupport: Support the wider team to deliver their work and ensure any obstacles are removed on a timely basis
• Quality Management: Work with the relevant teams to ensure that robust quality management processes are in place and documented to plan, test and control technical implementation of capability and any defects are tracked and managed effectively
• ChangeManagement: Work with internal and client teams to ensure that changes delivered are embedded effectively into the organisation ensuring for example that training; documentation; process changes are all considered as part of the overall readiness plan
• BenefitsTracking: Agree and maintain a robust means of tracking the defined benefits as part of the project delivery
• ContinuousImprovement: Ensure that learnings or improvements identified through the course of delivery are captured and the full project team gets the opportunity to share their learnings.
• Internal development of the delivery function: contribute learnings and best practice to aid the overall aims and act as a role model to other members of the team

Experience and Attributes Required: 

• 5+ years project/programme management/transformation experience
• Experience of working across different delivery methodologies including waterfall and agile
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills 
• Ability to manage multiple projects and programmes simultaneously 
• Experience of delivering technical implementations at scale
• Strong problem solving skills with a can-do attitude
• Ability to translate ambiguity into a structured and agreed approach and plan
• Strong analytics skills with an understanding of data and mar tech
• Experience of working in customer marketing (desirable)
• Experience of working with cloud technology (desirable)
• Experience of working in a consulting environment (desirable)

Our Commitment to You:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday, plus an additional three days leave to be taken between Christmas and New Year
• Pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Flexible benefits scheme including electric car leasing scheme
• Hybrid working
• Excellent opportunities to grow and develop
• Vibrant, friendly, dynamic team with regular social activities and team events

About Loop Horizon

Loop Horizon are radically redefining the way brands utilise their 1st party data. We are a fast-growing organisation at the forefront of change within the digital landscape, delivering consultancy and software services across Consumer, Business, and Health industries.

We pride ourselves in building robust relationships with our clients through delivering quality, goal-based services. We focus not just on enabling clients with data and technology capability but enabling their Marketing teams through strategy, activation, collaboration, and embedded ways of working.