Who We Are
At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.
Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.
Project Manager with technical background and eCommerce experience wanted to join VML Enterprise Solutions
The Opportunity
A Project Manager, with a technical background, who coordinates teams and releases across client environments. You encourage strong relationships with your team and have the ability to talk, at a technical level, with developers, testers and WTC technical architects. You have an understanding of practices in development standards, including code reviews branching strategies, development principals and CI/CD.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Build relationships with VML technical specialists
- Coordinate 3rd party product vendors, environments & client technical resources
- Oversee delivery of new infrastructure environments
- Working knowledge of Agile frameworks, in particular Scrum and Kanban
- Ability to inspire and lead technical teams and work with teams to achieve individual and team objectives
- Run effective sprint ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning and estimation sessions, showcases and sprint retrospectives (using WISDOM Methodology)
- Support the efficient flow of work by helping the teams remove obstacles and make improvements
- High-level understanding of the software development life cycle and release management
- Involvement in release planning and execution
- Support, co-ordinate and manage the technical deployments for the project
- Build customer confidence by understanding their needs & delivering first class solutions
- Set and managing client expectations.
- Issues and Risks identification, mitigation and resolution
- Identify technical debt and technical enhancements that would benefit the project in the long term
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating to various audiences including key stakeholders and sponsors.
- Release and technical reporting regarding project/account technical deliverables, architecture and pipeline improvements
What We Want From You
- Must have software development Project Management experience, ecommerce experience ideally within a retail environment.
- Technical understanding that enables log analysis and to identify potential issues
- Must have eCommerce experience
- Some previous experience of eCommerce frameworks and hosting solutions
- Understanding of cloud/on prem. Infrastructure
- Knowledge of Azure and AWS DevOps Tooling
- Defining, managing and delivering to customer expectations within strict deadlines
- Full knowledge of the project lifecycle and experience of various project development methodologies (including Agile, Incremental and Waterfall)
- Comfortable with technical environments and legacy systems integration
- Some experience of code management tools such as git, bit bucket, svn
- Interested in the implementation of Jenkins, git or other release pipeline tools
- Ability to manage multiple 3rd parties
- Time management & organisational skills
- Negotiation skills and an ability to handle sensitive issues
- Relevant Project Management qualifications
- A developer background or programming qualification is advantageous but not essential
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Packages, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
If You Know Some Of This, Even Better
- Minimum BA/BS degree with a major in information management, marketing, communications, business or other closely-related areas is an advantage
Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:
- Connect Meaningfully
- Inspire Creatively
- Include Purposefully
- Approach Positively
Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That’s why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
AT VML Enterprise Solutions
Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.
As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.
WPP (VML Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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