Job Description
As an Agile Project Manager at Publicis Sapient, you will partner with clients undertaking major digital business or engineering transformation engagements. You will work within a cross-functional, globally distributed team to lead the planning, estimation, and delivery of client projects and programmes.
Your Impact
- Plan, document, and implement the optimal team structure (roles, people, expertise) to ensure high-quality delivery and achieving established goals.
- Lead teams to successfully deliver customer experience and engineering solutions that drive client business value.
- Identify and realise business outcomes using the most effective agile project management approaches, methods, processes and tools
- Support clients’ business objectives by delivering experience and engineering solutions, including experience management, e-commerce, customer data, cloud, and microservice platforms.
- Enact lasting changes to the client’s ways of working by utilising a consultative approach focused on defining and measuring customer value delivered at each milestone.
- Organise and lead ongoing team planning sessions to identify key risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams.
- Optimise delivery within a project or programme through insights and mitigation strategies for project risk management.
- Guide internal leaders and external senior stakeholders on programme delivery methods, ceremonies, and protocols to streamline and structure workflow for timely results.
- Articulate and manage engagement commercial metrics including client outcomes, leakage, burn rate, revenue, and margins to support account health and account-level planning within the industry vertical.
Qualifications
- Strong background in agile project management with a deep understanding of Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid methodologies.
- Proven track record as a proactive doer and problem solver who is highly organised and able to see the bigger picture.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate at all levels of the organisation to achieve broader insights into managing workstreams and outcomes.
- Capable of earning trust and influencing stakeholders without formal authority to achieve desired results.
- Proficient with collaboration tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Miro/ Mural and Microsoft Office applications.
- Flexible, collaborative, and able to manage and prioritise multiple tasks simultaneously to maintain teamwork and optimal project flow.
- Relevant experience working in a digital agency or consultancy, leading cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams to shape a cohesive delivery approach, team structure, and cost estimates to deliver transformative, value-driven proposals.
Additional Information
Benefits of Working Here
- Hybrid working model and flexible working hours.
- Strong people-first company culture.
- Numerous learning opportunities to support your professional growth.
- Amazing opportunities for career progression.
- Staff incentives and rewards schemes.
- Company pension plan and occupational disability insurance.
- Discounts on travel, culture, and leisure activities.
- “Work Your World Program” – every Publicis Sapient employee is entitled to work anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks every year.