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The Opportunity
We are looking for a Project Manager to join our APAC Data Team. You will be responsible for the direction, coordination, implementation, control and completion of projects across a variety of clients. The projects will be technical in nature and related to Data and Digital Analytics inclusive of cloud implementations, web analytics deployment, Business Intelligence dashboard developments.
Essential Functions:
Project Management:
- Oversee the timely delivery of each project, ensuring it remains within scope and within budget
- Act as principal point of contact for the client, throughout the engagement
- Develop the project SOW, including objectives, scope, resources, budget, and timeline
- Work with all relevant stakeholders to ensure technical feasibility
- Organize and coordinate a cross-functional team of analysts, data engineers, digital constants and other.
- Prepare a project plan and document project progress for review by senior management and key client stakeholders
- Ensure that projects are delivered in compliance with company policies, standards, and regulations
- Schedule and run agile sprint ceremonies, including daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Manage project tasks, acting as scrum master
- Mitigate risk and manage changes in project scope, schedule, and costs
- Evaluate success of projects against established criteria
Core Values:
- A strong problem-solvers who is comfortable in unfamiliar situations and can view challenges from multiple perspectives
- Drive to develop technical and management skills for oneself and teammates
- Ability to connect with clients and colleagues of different backgrounds and communication styles, through empathy and clear verbal, visual, and written communication
- We assume positive intent - Reflecting our values and goals through a transparent approach both internally and externally.
- We solve it together - We are one team where everyone belongs, and works together to deliver work no one else can.
- We act like owners - We make decisions, find solutions and are always respectful, leading with empathy not ego.
- We are impact driven - We always push to be better, on our quest for innovation and improving our work, we reinvent ourselves every day.
Required Experience:
- 3+ years experience in Project Management or similar role
- Demonstrated examples of use of project management methodologies
- Experience working for an agency as well as on the client-side
- Strong understanding of website consulting, design, and development
- Comfortable using Jira as a primary tool for coordination
- Project management qualification (PMP) or equivalent
- Experience in strategic planning, risk management and/or change management
- Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and communicate business value of suggested ideas & plans
- Bachelor’s degree in Business/Commerce, Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, Math, or Statistics/Economics are preferred.
- Certifications in Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics or Google Cloud are highly valued.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.