Junior Project Manager

Please note the job is based in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. Not Farringdon, London.

Hybrid Working: Tues, Weds and Thursday office based.

We are seeking a Junior Digital Project Manager to join our growing team. This role is perfect for someone looking to develop their career in project management within the digital sector. You will work closely with our senior project managers and development teams to oversee the delivery of web and software projects, ensuring they meet client requirements, timelines, and budgets.

You’ll be involved in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, gaining exposure to a variety of project types while developing your own skills as a project management professional.

Responsibilities:

• Project Coordination: Assist in the management and coordination of digital projects, ensuring smooth delivery from start to finish.
• Client Liaison: Communicate with clients to ensure project requirements are clear, and expectations are aligned. Assist in providing regular updates and reports.
• Team Support: Work with developers, designers, and QA teams to ensure projects are progressing on time, identifying any potential blockers and resolving them proactively.
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies: Support the application of Agile practices such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives. Assist in Waterfall-based projects, ensuring deadlines and milestones are met.
• Documentation & Reporting: Maintain project documentation, including project plans, timelines, and status reports. Help prepare and distribute client-facing documents and internal project summaries.
• Risk Management: Track and identify potential project risks and issues, escalating them as needed and working with senior team members to implement mitigation strategies.
• Quality Assurance: Help ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards, performing basic checks where necessary and collaborating with the QA team.
• Time and Budget Tracking: Support senior project managers in tracking project time, resources, and costs to ensure projects stay within scope.
• Admin: Attending and minuting client meetings as required. Ensuring project documentation is complete, kept current and appropriately stored within Confluence & working with project management tools.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Project Management Basics: Some experience (or a solid understanding) of managing digital projects or working within a digital environment, ideally in a junior or assistant role.
• Methodology Exposure: Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Experience with Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives is a plus.
• Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to liaise with clients and team members effectively.
• Organisation: Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to identify challenges early and suggest potential solutions.
• Tech Savvy: A basic understanding of digital project workflows, including web development, UI/UX design, and testing processes.
• Tools Knowledge: Experience with project management tools like Jira or Trello is beneficial, but not essential.
• Team Player: You’re a collaborative individual who thrives in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Attention to detail: An ability to proof-read and eye for detail, including strong spelling and grammar.
• Calm under pressure: Good prioritization skills and pro-active nature.

Benefits:

• Health insurance for you.
• Travel insurance for you and your family.
• Better than average pension contribution (salary sacrifice).
• Flexible working hours on a Friday.
• Extra holiday after 5 years service.
• Free Juice lunch every week.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.

ABOUT JUICE:

A creative agency that says no to the bland. We are thinkers, makers. Status quo challengers. Opportunity chasers. We juice up brands, content and digital. Blending insight, imagination and tech to help our clients get noticed, get results, get juiced. From brand identity, campaigns, video animation and production, to digital experiences. We deliver work that will keep customers and people engaged and coming back for more.

Our client list is impressive, BMW group, MINI, OMODA, Cayman Islands, Highland Spring, Goodyear, IHG to name just a few. We live on a farm, we don’t take ourselves too seriously (some of us have even trained as stand-up comedians). Full of energy, we love cakes, dogs, coffee, pizza and BBQ’s. And we love people. We hate time wasters and wasting time. We listen to our gut but are driven by insight. Our clients become our friends and even come and work with us. We believe in what ifs and why nots, in bringing joy and fun. Life is too short to waste on the dull.