Senior Project Manager

Description:

mkodo is a leading supplier of Award Winning Mobile Apps & Services to organisations across the globe. We specialise in high volume, highly reputational services, which are downloaded and used daily by 100,000’s of people. Our core emphasis is on quality and doing “the job right”, with thorough professional processes such as continuous improvement (CI) and Automation under Agile project delivery methodologies.

We offer a great working environment, supportive team, and an excellent remuneration package to anyone who wishes to develop their career as a Project Manager in the Digital sector.

Headquartered in London and with offices in Newcastle, mkodo continues to grow and understands the value of investing in people, recruiting passionate people to the team, who are generously rewarded for their dedication and ideas

Key Skills & Attributes:

• Demonstrable Project Management experience within digital technology sector; Apps, web apps, UX/UI, etc.
• Demonstrable experience managing complex projects with multiple parties and workstreams
• Able to produce and maintain detailed project plans, schedules and RAIDs
• Very strong clients facing skills
• Experience and effective application of Agile processes
• Knowledge of release management and SDLC
• Commercial acumen / budget control
• Use of JIRA and Confluence
• Excellent communication skills across channels, especially in the current period of virtual workspace!
• Great interpersonal skills, leading by example through “hearts and mind”
• Strong influencing and decision-making skills
• Highly adaptable to change
• Ability to see the bigger picture, focusing on the goals that matter
• Team player

About the role:

A fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and capable Senior Project Manager to join our growing team. We want someone who is confident to manage key strategic projects.

Main Responsibilities:

The position will focus on:

• Project planning for deliveries, resource and dependencies
• Project reporting to working group and senior executives both internal and external.
• Working with different team disciplines and clients ensuring clear communications between key parties to achieve objectives
• Deliver projects to specifications, deadlines and quality levels.
• Manage priorities, project changes and stakeholder expectations.
• Effective risk management and mitigation planning
• Come up with solutions and proposals, not just report problems.
• Understand mkodo products and support delivery of the product roadmap.
• Make effective use of teams and resource.
• Continuously improve delivery processes.
• Proactively collaborate with other Project Managers to exchange ideas and improvements across the company