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Senior Project Manager
Discovery Communications
London, , United Kingdom
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Position Summary:
Reporting into the VP Digital Technology, the Senior Project Manager will be focused on the delivery of existing and new projects, working with the VP Digital Tech, and product teams to introduce more agile methodologies to enable new product launches, iterative product development.
The DNI Digital team works across the international product development of OTT and streaming digital products to global offices. The team provides strategic, analytical, development, product and project management expertise on complex projects.
The ideal candidate will have a background in project management in broadcast and OTT from a media company. The Senior Project Manager will lead projects with a high degree of collaboration in a heavily matrixed and geographically diverse organization. The role requires strong project management and problem solving skills, as well as strong analytical, communication, and cross-cultural management experience. The Senior Project Manager will lead internal and external team resources which are brought together for the duration of the project and manages them within a team going through change. Functions independently with little to no supervision or guidance.
Responsibilities:
• Prepare and present at QA reviews and Steering Executive Committee Meetings.
• Prepare and present project status updates as required.
• Run daily stand ups and manage an iterative product development process with team leads
• Create Project Initiation Documents simultaneously for multiple projects, varying in scope and timelines.
• Own all project reporting including RAG status and risks and issues (with input from local offices).
• Agree and introduce new processes as required to ensure timely delivery.
• Be Attentive to detail and possess a high-degree of follow-through.
• Proven understanding of all key disciplines required as part of a project delivery.
• Create financial reports as required as part of reporting.
• Ensure each team in the delivery life cycle has assets to hand and deliver according to your plan.
Requirements:
• 4 years + experience in a project management role delivering high profile, scalable digital products.
• Proven ability to lead and run multiple complex projects/programs from planning, design and development through to production.
• Experienced in delivering multinational deliveries, across multiple sites and multiple languages.
• Experience in broadcast media or media strongly preferred but not essential.
• Team Oriented, self-starter: ability to work in a team as well as to work and lead efforts independently.
• Experience in managing team members, giving feedback and coaching accordingly
• Fluency in digital and technical terminology, comfortable working with technology and development teams.
• Strong presentation and communication skills; ability to interface with business customers at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Direct experience working with and across various cultures.
• Exposure to a mixture of Waterfall, Agile, and Prince2 methodologies.
Nice to have:
• Background in product design would be ideal.
• Working knowledge of Mac, Merlin, Office, Google Apps Suite and iWork.
• Experience of TV, broadcast, sports or the film industry.