Project Director
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About the Role
WPP Production is seeking a Project Director to lead a team of front-end developers and manage technical delivery for client projects. The role requires 10+ years of project management experience, expertise in HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, and strong leadership skills.
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Responsibilities
- Manage a team of HTML5, Javascript, CSS developers and be ultimately responsible for the clients' technical delivery
- Provide technical thought leadership and promote the vision, strategy and services of the digital department
- Define distributed development strategy and processes across onshore, offshore and remote teams
- Manage team hiring, performance reviews, and personal development
- Coordinate with leads across key delivery teams (Tech, Project Management, QA, and Resource Management)
- Act as point of escalation for project issues, resolving problems quickly and communicating effectively
- Set and manage client expectations while coordinating and ensuring all parties follow agreed workflows
- Manage approval of quarterly budgets, flagging important budget fluctuations to client and line manager
- Draft, prepare and present timelines, documents, and presentations to client and team
- Ensure account consistently delivers against all contractual obligations including SLAs and KPIs
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of Project Management experience
- Experience leading innovation and leveraging emerging platforms
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
- Experience working cross functionally to build relationships between business units, technology, product, media, agency, and design teams
- Experience working on international initiatives, ideally with exposure to emerging markets
- Very high competence in project management software such as Microsoft Project and Omniplan
- Extensive experience in costing, quotations and project scope definition
- Excellent communication skills in both Arabic and English
- Technical understanding of mobile and web technologies (iOS, Android, HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, cloud computing, ecommerce)
- Must be able to travel as required, sometimes for several weeks at a time
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About WPP Production
- WPP Production is the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP's content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organisation.
- We combine world class human craft with next generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi channel content systems at scale.
About the Role
- We are looking for a passionate leader and technical champion for the creation of rich front end experiences.
- You will manage a team of HTML5, Javascript, CSS developers and be ultimately responsible for the clients' technical delivery.
- You will work with WPP Production and partner organisations to define the optimum technical approach for client projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Co ordinating with leads across key delivery teams (Tech, Project Management, QA, and Resource Management)
- Ensure compliance with WPP production processes
- Acting as the point of escalation for project issues raised by team leads, resolving problems quickly and communicating effectively
- Coaching and developing the team in their roles with regular performance reviews
- Manage the team hiring and keeping briefs clear and consistently updated
- Interviewing candidates for the team and taking responsibility for the approval of freelancers
- Set and manage client expectations while coordinating and ensuring all parties follow the agreed workflows
- Build strong, trusting relationships with all key stakeholders
- Manage the approval of quarterly budgets, flagging important budget fluctuations to the client and line manager
- Draft, prepare and present timelines, documents, and presentations and reports both to the client and to the team
- Ensure that the line manager is always aware of all client issues and proposed solutions
- Ensure your account consistently delivers against all contractual obligations including SLAs and KPIs
Requirements
- A minimum of 10 years Project Management experience background
- Experience of leading innovation, leveraging emerging platforms and quickly facilitating new ideas and platforms to market
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
- Know how in working cross functionally to build relationships between business units, technology, product, media, agency, and design teams
- Experience working on international initiatives ideally with exposure to emerging markets
- Self motivated and a self starter
- Very high competence in project management software such as Microsoft Project and Omniplan
- Extensive experience in costing, quotations and project scope definition
- Excellent communication skills to different target groups within the project team, management and clients
- Ensure understanding of the contractual obligations, commercial arrangements and SLAs of the accounts
- Analytical and detailed in project documentation, accountability, and tracking
- Pragmatic, team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Why work here
- At WPP Production, you'll help shape the future of content production at a truly global scale.
- You'll work in a collaborative, borderless environment where craft excellence is valued, innovation is encouraged, and AI and next generation tools are used to amplify not replace human creativity.
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