Project Manager - Halifax, Canada - VERB Interactive

VERB Interactive

Verified Company

Halifax, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

VERB is a digital marketing agency with our head office located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Our global clients offer the opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world's biggest destinations, resorts, and travel brands—and with our employee travel credit, it's easy to experience them for yourself.

We take a balanced approach to work/life and have fun at the office
- or wherever we happen to be working. We are passionate about exceeding expectations and we thrive on jobs other agencies might find too big, or too difficult, or too fast.

Sound good? Great, here's who we're looking for

We are looking for a Project Manager who will provide our clients and colleagues with a proactive, strategic, measurable and organized approach to holistic marketing strategies and product implementation.

This role partners project management, business analysis skills, and effective communication skills to ensure that the necessary information of a project is delivered to the key stakeholders while keeping projects moving and within scope.

The Project Manager works with internal teams to manage deliverables, but also owns client relationships providing excellent client service throughout every stage of work.

This position would be part of our Project Delivery Team, and reports to our Director of Project Delivery.

What You Will Do

Collaborate with all VERB Internal departments on key projects and process efficiency including, Discovery, Design, Marketing, Development, QA, and IT Operations
Work closely with projects and the Account Directors to ensure total service delivery excellence in meeting deadlines, budgets, and quality assurance
Create and maintain project schedules, internal and external status reports, risk and issues logs.
Act as the project expert/product owner who has an intimate understanding of the entire solution
Plan and facilitate client workshops and requirements gathering meetings
Define and prioritize requirements for web projects using various needs analysis techniques
Craft requirements documents with technical specifications, functionalities, and/or user stories
Translates conceptual ideas into technically feasible CMS web solutions
Administrator and/or build new web pages, make changes to existing modules, implement modules/widgets/content templates, research new modules or enhancements within Wordpress and/or Drupal Content Management Systems
Oversee the implementation of campaigns for clients, this may be small, oneoff social media campaigns or largescale integrated marketing campaigns
Working closely with the Project Delivery Team, there will be the opportunity to help shape processes used throughout the organization.
Act as a client advocate and manage internal communications throughout project lifecycle
Design and deliver enduser technical documentation and training
Document processes and techniques for use on future projects
Frequent communications with VERB Director of Project Delivery for escalation, resourcing/budget concerns, etc

Requirements:

Must possess at least 2 years of experience with project management responsibilities
Bachelor's degree/equivalent in business administration or related field (or equivalent experience)
Experience implementing Agile project management methodologies
Experience developing requirements, use cases, user stories, etc
Experience working with a Content Management System (CMS) within an agency setting (Wordpress and Drupal)
Knowledge of project delivery processes, including Discover, Definition, Design, Develop, Deploy
Willingness and attitude to help project teams find workable and pragmatic solutions
Superb verbal and written communication skills
Excellent organizational and prioritization

Would be an asset:

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Business Analysis Certificate

Benefits

Our benefits are anything but basic, with vacation time available on day one (not to mention an extra bonus week during the holidays), an annual travel credit (for non-work related travel), and free office snacks and drinks to keep you energized when you're around.

In addition, we offer the following and are consistently looking for new ways to enhance the benefits we offer to our team:

100% premium share option for Group Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision), with a health spending account to top up your claims
A healthy living account
Company matching RRSP program
Top up for Parental/Pregnancy leave
Remote and flexible work arrangements
Transit and fitness discounts
Recreational sports teams
Learning and development opportunities with a multitude of resources
Internal recognition programs