Senior Digital Project Manager
ABOUT US
tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.
Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.
Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.
WHAT MATTERS THE MOST
Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.
tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com.
WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE
As a Senior Digital Project Manager, you are the glue that holds and drives digital projects—responsible for developing, communicating, and leading project plans across the full lifecycle. From initial planning and strategy through development, testing, and launch, you will be instrumental in coordinating and guiding every step.
In this role, you’ll also have the opportunity to work on high-visibility, large-scale digital campaigns for a major brand, bringing innovative digital experiences to life and making a real impact on national audiences.
Working with numerous cross functional teams, clients, partners and vendors, this role requires strong organizational and communication skills in managing timings and the deliverables within those timelines. This role is also a first line of defence for ensuring requirements are gathered, documented and adhered to from actual development build.
Digging deeper on the details:
- Leads large scale programs and may support/mentor Digital Project managers and Associate Project Managers on medium/small activations
- Act as the central point between internal cross teams, managing necessary inputs/approvals from applicable teams (e.g. Account, Creative, Analytics, Legal, Strategy, Promo Ops, etc.)
- Build project timelines based on internal and external inputs
- Document and prioritize workflow across the project team (strategy, creative, technology, analytics, vendors, etc.)
- Documents and manages project requirements, such as business requirements and partner requirements
- Works within technical agile process to review user stories written by the business analyst and prioritizes sprint work in Jira through ticket backlog
- Manage and steer project processes, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery
- Prepare and/or present concepts, documents and program information such as client reviews, legal reviews, security reviews, etc.
- Monitor and provide timely status updates to the team regarding project progress against proposed plans including, timelines, build status, quality criteria, and risk management
- Manage and control project scope and the change management process
- Act as an internal quality control check for the program(s), for accuracy and ensuring it meets client requirements and standard methodologies. This includes quality control checks of creative and beta sites
WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION
You have the ambition and energy to help make TMS famous for its work, and inspire clients, creatives, planners and suits alike with your creative passion, insight, and imagination. Keen to bring these ideas to life, you believe that collaboration is key, and building motivated teams from all departments is the way to generate phenomenal work and collective pride. Always ensuring project plans are moving forward, you have excellent organization, communication, and problem-solving skills.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE
- 5+ years in digital project management in an agency environment
- Experience with Agile/SCRUM methodology and approach
- Understanding of digital execution process and lifecycle (i.e. mobile applications (Android and iOS), large-scale promotions/sweepstakes, and social media executions is preferrable)
- Highly collaborative, able to successfully interact with clients and work lockstep with cross functional teams to deliver project deliverables
- Comfortable working with UX/UI, technology, design, operations, security and legal resources
- Ability to lead multiple, fast paced projects in various stages and under tight deadlines.
- Able to present complex ideas clearly
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to build trust and develop relationships
- Experience managing 3rd party vendors, development firms, and independent contractors
Starting salary between $90,000.00 - $105,000.00
TOTAL REWARDS
Our total rewards philosophy integrates programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, corporate culture, corporate citizenship and work-life balance. While individual program components may differ by country, some things remain constant:
- Our commitment to rewarding results
- Opportunities to work with talented and driven individuals at every level of our company who respect each other, treat each other fairly and hold one another accountable for our customers’—and our company’s—success
There's more ...
Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
Paid parental and medical leave programs
401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
Hybrid work model
Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
Inclusive employee resource groups
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
RECRUITING AGENCIES
tms does not accept agency resumes submitted by third-party vendors unless a valid agreement has been signed and the tms Talent Acquisition Team has granted authorization for submissions for a specified position. Please do not submit or forward resumes to our site, tms employees, or any other company location. tms is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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