Senior Project Manager – Mat. Cover

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take the lead on multiple intricate digital projects and workstreams from inception to completion.

• Collaborate with specialized teams and manage conflicting priorities effectively.

• Oversee project plans, resources, budgets, risks, and documentation.

• Keep clients and team members updated while proactively addressing issues.

• Utilize authorized AI tools to enhance delivery, exercising sound judgement and ensuring human oversight.

• Mentor junior project managers and contribute to practical project enhancements.

• Establish deliverables, estimates, assumptions, exclusions, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with Client Services and specialists.

• Organize project setup and kick-off meetings; develop and maintain delivery plans.

• Identify and mitigate risks, troubleshoot issues, lead recovery strategies, and escalate matters with actionable recommendations.

• Evaluate the impacts of scope changes and secure approvals before revised delivery timelines.

• Build relationships with clients and internal teams, lead delivery communications, secure decisions, and negotiate priorities.

• Assist in proposals and scope expansions by providing estimates, delivery strategies, resource needs, and risk assessments.

• Forecast required skills and hours, secure resource allocations, and coordinate specialist contributions and transitions.

• Identify resource conflicts and collaborate with resource and discipline leads to find solutions.

• Develop project estimates and budgets, obtaining approvals prior to project initiation.

• Monitor costs, predict completion expenses, track margins, and address variances accordingly.

• Maintain project data and contribute to revenue forecasts for assigned accounts in collaboration with Client Services and Finance.

• Manage purchase orders and invoicing, ensuring thorough financial reconciliation.

• Keep accurate project documentation, inclusive of status reports, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, decisions, actions, and change logs.

• Adhere to delivery standards and maintain information within project management and job costing systems.

• Coordinate quality assessments, rights and claims verifications, client approvals, launch readiness, and measurement prerequisites.

• Confirm project acceptance, complete handovers, lead project closures and retrospectives, and follow up on action items.

• Present improvement opportunities to the Head of Delivery.

• Comply with AI policies, safeguard confidential information, verify outputs, and ensure specialist quality assurance and human approval.

• Share insights and support agreed-upon changes within projects.

• Collaborate with Client Services, resource and discipline leads, Finance, and Operations; report to a Digital Project Director or Head of Delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of five years of project management experience in a digital, content, creative, or media agency.

• Demonstrated capability to independently manage multiple complex projects and workstreams.

• Experience delivering projects for global brands, preferably in FMCG, healthcare, or similarly complex industries that involve multiple stakeholders and approval processes.

• Strong skills in planning, estimating, resource coordination, budgeting, forecasting, risk management, and change control.

• Practical knowledge of integrated delivery across SEO, AEO, content, social media, digital PR, and paid media.

• Analytical thinking and sound judgement; ability to question assumptions, interpret project data, identify root causes, and propose practical solutions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and negotiate realistic priorities.

• A proactive and organized approach, with a keen attention to detail and dependable follow-through.

• Proficiency in using agency job costing and project management systems, such as Paprika or similar tools.

• Experience utilizing AI tools to enhance delivery, with appropriate judgement, human review, and safeguarding of confidential information.

• Background in mentoring less experienced project managers and providing practical advice.

• Alignment with Greenpark’s core values: ‘We Strive’, ‘Acting Together’, ‘With Kindness’.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of paid holidays annually.

• ZA public holidays and your birthday off.

• Christmas Closure with additional days beyond the holiday allowance.

• A monthly entertainment subscription covered by the company (e.g., Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, etc.).

• Access to V DU Eye Tests.

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

• Wellness and peer recognition initiatives (e.g., On The Spot Awards and Value Champion Awards).

• LinkedIn Learning access.

• Social events, including Spring, Summer, Halloween, and Christmas parties, as well as ad-hoc gatherings.

• Work From Anywhere (WFA) policy – the opportunity to work abroad for up to 4 weeks per year.

• Annual Calm subscription.