Senior Project Manager

What’s the job?

We are Ampersand, an ecommerce agency that specialises in transforming fast-growing retailers. 

We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to manage and deliver ecommerce solutions through sprints, ad hoc releases, and go-live launches. As you’ll be involved in the full project lifecycle, you’ll be a natural at building strong client relationships, as well as a passionate advocate for our agile processes.

Your role will include:

• Creating sprint and release plans, making full use of your team to implement them efficiently and provide value to our customers
• Finding solutions and overcoming obstacles concerning capacity and changing requirements
• Consistently producing accurate and meaningful updates and reports to internal and external stakeholders
• Managing cross-functional teams across one or more sprints (between 3-6 people) and delivering progress to meet monthly agreed sprint hours
• Owning the client relationship on day-to-day delivery including online, calls, and workshops

What you bring

• Ability to lead and matrix manage a cross-functional team
• Ability to manage and mitigate assumptions, issues, risks, and dependencies - using escalation points to get support where needed
• Experience of working within a high pressured, fast paced environment; being able to prioritise and be able to apply a pragmatic approach to solutions
• Experience of working with different delivery methods; Scrum and Kanban
• Exceptionally detail-oriented and technically minded

More reasons to join us:

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working
• Personal development plans
• Private healthcare
• 32 days’ holiday (includes public holidays)
• Meet-ups and social events