Senior Digital Project Manager

7 days ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa JBi Digital Full time

JBi is an award-winning UK digital transformation agency. Our vibrant and energetic team is proud to create outstanding digital experiences and deliver top-class digital solutions. We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager who can bring significant UK digital agency expertise, working in a flexible, remote-first capacity, to service our UK-based clients.

What are we looking for?

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Digital Project Manager to lead and manage large and complex digital transformation projects for our UK-based clients and markets.

The ideal candidate will have a deep, demonstrable understanding of the UK market needs and digital transformation, encompassing design, development, SEO, UX, Security and Cloud hosting solutions. This role requires someone who is analytically minded, has excellent communication skills, and is comfortable managing projects remotely while aligning with UK business hours.

What You'll Do:

  • Project Leadership: Defining scope, requirements, team structures, and ensuring delivery on time, budget, and quality for complex customer experience and engineering solutions.
  • Delivery Control: Develop and maintain detailed scoping documents, project plans, resource schedules, budgets and budget reconciliations, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and at the agreed scope.
  • Delivery Management: Lead and manage large-scale digital transformation projects from inception to completion, co-ordinating UX, UI, Strategy, technical teams and sometimes 3rd parties/vendors, to ensure flawless execution and delivery of robust and scalable digital solutions.
  • Change Control: Manage changes to the project scope, through change, project schedule, and project costs
  • Stakeholder Management: Acting as the primary interface both internal teams and with clients, facilitating project delivery related discussions, resolving conflicts, and updating senior stakeholders 
  • Cloud Hosting: Have exposure to cloud computing and understand its role in digital transformation.
  • Risk & Financial Management: Proactively identifying, mitigating risks/issues, managing project finances for profitability, and reporting status to the PMO.
  • Team Guidance: Guiding cross-discipline teams, removing obstacles, providing feedback, and ensuring teams are productive and focused. 
  • Have working exposure to cloud computing and understand its role in digital transformation initiatives.
  • Collaborate with technical teams to ensure the delivery of robust and scalable digital solutions.
  • Translate client briefs into delivery requirements to enable strong delivery estimations and scope definition in collaboration with the various discipline leads.

Key things we are looking for

  • Minimum of 4 to 5 years of proven, hands-on experience managing large and complex web digital transformation projects.
  • A proven track record of successfully working alongside UK-based digital agencies or managing projects for UK client companies.
  • Demonstrable experience with budget management and budget reconciliation, including managing project budgets exceeding £500K.
  • Exposure to cloud computing technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills - capable of translating complex technical issues into clear client communications.
  • Deep understanding of digital transformation, including SEO, UX, accessibility (WCAG), and security best practices.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proficiency in project management tools and software (e.g., Jira, Asana, MS Project)

Other Requirements:

  • Must be able to consistently align working hours with the UK business day (GMT/BST).
  • Experience working in a digital agency is a plus but not essential.

If that's you, we'd love to hear more In return we can offer:

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • High-impact, cutting-edge projects
  • A collaborative and supportive remote team culture
  • Flexibility and autonomy in your day-to-day role


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