Project Manager

Demographica is a marketing agency that helps large B2B companies grow their revenue in Africa by transforming how they engage buyers, grow customers, and enable their marketing and sales teams. We are a mid-sized and we work across a variety of touchpoints in the B2B marketing and purchase journey – from brand positioning to engagement programmes and stakeholder experience projects.

Our ambition is to develop signature work for our clients where the standard of the strategic and creative output is high and the impact immense. You will be inspired to uphold this intention and develop excellence.

You can persuade and inspire confidence and enthusiasm within the agency, as well as the broader businesses you work with. You will see an interesting mix of creativity, business logic and astute commerciality. 

Main Purpose

Responsible to positively contribute to the day-to-day running and management of all Project Management tasks.

To deliver against project timelines efficiently achieving the agreed objectives within budget and exceeding expectation in terms of quality outputs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Accountable for the management and communication of all project deliverables at any given time on allocated project work.
  • Work in tandem with the Project Director at all times.
  • Responsible for working with the Client Success team to manage the overall ‘health’ and profitability of the agreed portfolio of clients and each project.
  • Responsible to contribute to the successful completion and delivery of all assigned projects/tasks working alongside the Project Director to manage the portfolio of clients strategically.
  • Working closely with internal teams, to monitor delivery and do what is required to schedule, manage and coordinate tasks through to successful delivery.
  • Ensure adequate support & enable planning with Project Director to meet any changes in client request working with Operations to support a manageable workload.
  • Always working to ensure timeous delivery to client whilst effectively reporting on timelines and budgets to manage expectation and spend.

Day to day Expectation:

  • Proven track record having compiled Project Plans and successfully executed project tasks as part of a group of stakeholders responsible for delivery and communication.
  • Reliable reporting ability and experience in tracking project progress
  • Working knowledge of Agile methodologies, Scrum methodology (Sprints etc)
  • The ability to write comprehensive and insightful briefs
  • Build presentations with relevant schedules and costs and the ability to deliver/present in a confident and compelling manner
  • Be able to present a project plan- timing and costs to clients and confidently respond to address questions or raise points to which you will need to investigate and respond
  • Excellent computer skills
  • Confident communication skills – always ensuring timeous response to written communication for internal and external stakeholders (including emails, meeting requests/calendar invites, text or WhatsApp messages, phone calls & voicemail)
  • Computer literate and proficient in all Microsoft Office programs, (ideally proficient on both Apple and PC, but certainly one)

Minimum Requirements:

  • You have completed an industry relevant qualification in Marketing, Communications or Advertising.
  • Alternatively, you have a business Degree or Tertiary Diploma.
  • Minimum 3 years in a Project Management role working on Marketing; Technical or Creative projects.
  • An additional 5 years’ experience working in a Consulting or PM environment
  • Experience working in a Traffic/Ops role (working to support client delivery or internal Marketing Managers and/or Procurement/ Production/Finance).

Experience

  • Experience working to support, coordinate and manage large projects.
  • At least 5 years’ having been directly accountable to work with client, liaise and engage on (illustrating sound understanding) budgets, price quotes/CEs and invoices.
  • A sound knowledge of the relevant structures and processes in the Marketing team within brand and/or agency.

Attributes        

  • Professional and Respectful
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Deadline Driven
  • Good Communication skills
  • Proactive
  • Client centric (in delivery) and Insight centric (in delivering solution)
  • Self-motivated
  • Strategic thinker

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