Business Analyst / Digital Project Manager - Cape Town
Salary Negotiable
Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town,
Western Cape
more than 14 days ago
20-10-2014 4:02:24 PM
17-11-2014 4:02:24 PM
My client, a leading digital production agency, has a vacancy for a Business Analyst / Digital Project Manager to join their dynamic team.
Overview:- Oversee and input into all projects
- Work closely with clients to ensure the successful management and delivery of your projects
- It is essential that you understand internet technologies and terminology and the workflow of a typical digital project lifecycle
- You will have experience working in a digital agency environment and have a good working understanding in project planning, project management, client expectation management, risk management and pressure situation management
Duties include the following, but not limited to:- Managing your own set of more complex (bigger budget) client projects
- Meet daily/weekly with the PM team to ensure all projects are on track
- Oversee the internal SCRUM process
- You will be the first point of contact for the PM team and for clients to escalate any project issues
- You will quality check and input into every Cost Estimate, Proposal, SOW, Project Plan, UX/Wireframes, FSD’s and Testing processes for all projects
- Analyse and advise on all client project requirements; technical solutions development; and technical issues from a client management perspective
- Implement a formal testing & QA process that we can then sell into clients as a standalone testing service
- Input into development and technical discussions
- New business sales and sales costings
- Manage the project management team (5x staff)
- Inputting feedback on staff annual reviews
- Mentoring and motivating the team
Requirements:- A degree or similar qualifications
- 3+ years of project management or business analyst experience within an IT or agency environment
- Experience interfacing with clients and managing client expectations
- Experience creating BRS, SOW, FSD, MS Project Plan documentation for web projects
- Experience working with Agile / SCRUM methodologies and ability to help refine & implement this process
- Plan resourcing, track timelines and provide feedback to the Operations Director on team project progress
- Experience using project management tools like Redmine / Jira etc
- End to end project testing and ability to implement ‘Testing & QA’ processes into our SDLC (where no‘formal’ processes may exist)
- Good knowledge of the terminology and technical aspects related to web & mobile development
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Prepared to travel, if necessary
- MS Project
- Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) – are essential
- Understanding of internet technologies (HTML, CSS, JS, .NET)
- Understanding of CMS products like Umbraco (very advantageous); Episerver; Wordpress; Drupal
Salary:- Negotiable depending on experience and qualifications. Please state your salary expectation and notice period along with your application.
To apply for the above mentioned position, please send your CV.