**Company description** Digitas Liquorice is the Connected Marketing agency, built on the principle that there are better ways for brands to connect with people. We leverage comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities to deliver Media-Fueled Creativity via connected Solutions that include Connected Campaigns, Social Marketing, Brand Experience, CRM & Loyalty, and Marketing Transformation. Digitas Liquorice South Africa has Head Offices in JHB and CT with over 220 Unicorns delivering connected end-to-end solutions for our clients across SSA. Visit www.liquorice.co.za for more about us and what we do. We are also connected to 6 600 Digitas Unicorns across over 30 countries and 50 offices around the world. **Overview** **What you’ll do:** The Project Manager plays an essential role by ensuring all work required by the development team is delivered on time, following best practices and at the highest standard. Manage the technical team and all work they deliver; ensure that projects are delivered on time, following platform and project management best practices; work closely with the client service and delivery teams. **Day-to-day, your role includes:** + Develop and manage the project, communication, resource plans and processes. + Analyse all management and technical processes to ensure they’re delivered as expected. + Meet regularly with project stakeholders and define project goals and objectives. + Lead budget and resource allocation through all project phases. + Schedule project timelines. + Make estimates for the budget and schedule. + Generate regular reports to update stakeholders and manage projects. + Oversee day-to-day technical operations, including assignments and personnel review. + Define roles and responsibilities of the team and determine clear deliverables. **Qualifications** **We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:** + Degree in information science, marketing or related field + Project management certification advantageous. + Several years of professional work as a project manager with proven experience in managing platform build and maintenance projects within an advertising or development house. + Experience leading and working with technical teams to deliver work on time and in budget. + Comfortable in a highly competitive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment. + Team lead experience. + MS Excel skills + MS Projects Experience and Smartsheets Experience **Additional information** **Additional Information** **Personality Attributes:** + Strong leadership qualities and proven ability to motivate a wide variety of teams associated with different projects + Clear communication skills to guide project teams and coordinate with vendors and management. + Being able to solve problems. + Having analytical, computer and math skills + Knowledge of new and established software systems and the ability to train others on them. + Organizational and time management skills to keep teams and projects on schedule. + Strong monitoring ability to control project lifecycle. + Ability to manage cost control component. + Ability to work on multiple concurrent projects. + Able to display to management to strategic impact of the triple constraints. + Other: + Flexible to work beyond normal office hours (overtime if and when required) + Comfortable to work from the Publicis Groupe office (on-site), as well as occasionally on-site with clients