Job Description:
About Merkle
Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty.
Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management.
With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. In Denmark we are more than 200 colleagues working in the offices in Copenhagen and Aarhus.
For more information, visit
www.merkle.com
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The Role
We are looking for an organised and proactive Project Manager to join the Delivery Management team. As a Project Manager, you will drive and oversee the delivery of the assigned projects to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. You will be the bridge between our experience, data, engineering teams and our clients ensuring quality throughout the delivery.
What We’re Looking For
This role is for a Project Manager (or perhaps a Project Coordinator ready to make the step up) with 3-4 years experience of working in a comparable environment. You will work in a team of c.20 Project Managers of varying levels and experience to deliver to our clients what we have promised – be they technical, creative or strategic projects. The intention is that you are placed with your own group of projects within a programme, or projects in stand-alone setups across a diverse set of clients. The biggest factors are your ability to work on new tasks, learn and improve your skills, and have a conscientious approach to the management of the projects, and to your colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Creates and leads the project team to deliver the agreed outputs/outcomes within scope, time, cost and quality constraints.
• Manages the project team on a day-to-day basis, appropriate to context and project stage. Clearly defines, agrees and delegates team and key stakeholder roles and responsibilities; develops capability and fosters innovation; empowers and inspires others to deliver successful projects
• Supports the project sponsor to prepare, gain approval of, refine and update business cases that justify projects in terms of benefits, costs and risks; tracking and reporting forecast and actuals against them, ensuring realisation of benefits for business through planning and designing project outputs meet business/programme requirements and desired outcomes.
• Manages budgets for projects. Controls and reports on forecasts, changes, and actual costs against the budgets
• Establishes and maintains effective governance and decision making for the delivery of projects; defines clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities, that align with programme and/or organisational practice and requirements
• Designs, consolidates, documents and manages the fundamental components of projects (scope, schedule, approach, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, and quality requirements). Establishes, and implements where necessary, protocols to change the scope of projects and update of configuration documents as required
• Develops, produces and maintains schedules for project activities that takes account of dependencies, resource requirements and constraints in order to enable the efficient realisation of project outputs and associated benefits. Maps project dependencies and identifies owners, resolves issues and builds dependency management into the project’s governance cycle.
• Develops, implements and maintains resource allocations plans needed for projects (incl. external required resources), taking account of availabilities and scheduling variances
• Identifies and manages pertinent project stakeholder relationships (taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests), communications and need for senior level support. Ensures continual alignment with programme (if applicable), wider portfolio management and organisation communications. Proactively Identifies, addresses and seeks to resolve differences between individuals and/or interest groups
• Identifies and monitors project risks (threats and opportunities) and issues. Develops mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identifies and works with related projects to manage interdependencies

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• Exciting working environment with talented colleagues
• Private health insurance
• Hybrid work model (office & remote)

Additional information:
Please do not hesitate to send in your application and CV/LinkedIn profile as soon as possible.

• Creates and leads the project team to deliver the agreed outputs/outcomes within scope, time, cost and quality constraints.
• Manages the project team on a day-to-day basis, appropriate to context and project stage. Clearly defines, agrees and delegates team and key stakeholder roles and responsibilities; develops capability and fosters innovation; empowers and inspires others to deliver successful projects
• Supports the project sponsor to prepare, gain approval of, refine and update business cases that justify projects in terms of benefits, costs and risks; tracking and reporting forecast and actuals against them, ensuring realisation of benefits for business through planning and designing project outputs meet business/programme requirements and desired outcomes.
• Manages budgets for projects. Controls and reports on forecasts, changes, and actual costs against the budgets
• Establishes and maintains effective governance and decision making for the delivery of projects; defines clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities, that align with programme and/or organisational practice and requirements
• Designs, consolidates, documents and manages the fundamental components of projects (scope, schedule, approach, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, and quality requirements). Establishes, and implements where necessary, protocols to change the scope of projects and update of configuration documents as required
• Develops, produces and maintains schedules for project activities that takes account of dependencies, resource requirements and constraints in order to enable the efficient realisation of project outputs and associated benefits. Maps project dependencies and identifies owners, resolves issues and builds dependency management into the project’s governance cycle.
• Develops, implements and maintains resource allocations plans needed for projects (incl. external required resources), taking account of availabilities and scheduling variances
• Identifies and manages pertinent project stakeholder relationships (taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests), communications and need for senior level support. Ensures continual alignment with programme (if applicable), wider portfolio management and organisation communications. Proactively Identifies, addresses and seeks to resolve differences between individuals and/or interest groups
• Identifies and monitors project risks (threats and opportunities) and issues. Develops mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identifies and works with related projects to manage interdependencie