Digital Project Manager Job Halifax area,Nova Scotia Canada,IT/Tech

VERB is a digital marketing agency 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 from.

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…

The Digital Project Manager provides clients and colleagues with a proactive, strategic, measurable, and organized approach to holistic marketing strategies and product implementation. This role combines project management, business analysis, 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.

What You Will Do

Translate conceptual ideas into technically feasible solutions and act as the project expert who has an intimate understanding of the entire solution

Collaborate with all VERB internal departments including, Development, Marketing, UX and Creative, on key process efficiencies

Apply business acumen to uncover web solutions that address clients’ business needs

Own the final deliverable to ensure they are complete and accurate based on the scope of the contract

Define and prioritize requirements for web and/or marketing projects using various needs analysis techniques

Craft requirement documents with technical specifications, functionalities, user stories and/or collaborate on creative brief and marketing strategy documentation

Manage Kanban and Sprint boards and translate project requirements into tickets within Jira

Create and maintain project schedules, internal and external status reports and risk and issues logs

Develop and deliver end-user training

Host key internal meetings and lead regular client meetings related to project milestones

Plan and facilitate client workshops and requirements gathering meetings

Work closely with the project sponsor to ensure total service delivery excellence in meeting deadlines and budgets

Act as a client advocate and manage internal communications throughout project life cycle

Maintain frequent communication with Project Delivery leadership for escalation, resourcing and budget concerns, etc.

Foster and nurture a positive relationship with internal and external stakeholders through punctual, professional, and strategic communication

Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the Project Delivery team

Requirements

1+ years of project management experience

Post-secondary education in project management, marketing, advertising, business, communications, public relations, or equivalent experience

The following certifications are considered an asset:

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Business Analysis Certificate (ECBA or CPRE)

ITIL V3 Foundation

Demonstrated experience across a range of digital media

Experience implementing Agile project management methodologies

Experience developing requirements, user cases, user stories, and/or creative briefs

Experience working within a CMS (Word Press, Drupal)

Familiarity with Atlassian Suite of products, , Confluence and Jira, with experience managing projects within Jira

Knowledge of project delivery processes (Discover, Definition, Design, Develop, Deploy)

Ability to help project teams find workable and pragmatic solutions

Proven ability to present information to internal and external stakeholders, , hosting workshops

Strong attention to detail

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Highly organized with the ability to function in a fast-paced business environment

We use automated tools, including AI-enabled technology, to support certain aspects of our recruitment process, such as organizing applications and identifying potential matches based on role related criteria. These tools are used to assist with administrative and screening activities only. All hiring decisions, including shortlisting, interview selection,…


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