Technical Project Manager

Salary: £54,000 – £60,000 per year

Diamond Search Recruitment are delighted to be representing our client, a market leader in their sector. Recruiting for a Technical Project Manager, a key leadership position in the technology team, leading innovation of the owner journey on the bespoke owner portal and supply platform. If you’re excited by working in a fast-paced environment, are obsessed by all things customer and want to be a part of this company’s journey, then this could be the job for you!
Offering a dynamic culture and fantastic benefits, this is an opportunity not to be missed! Job Benefits.
Job Description and Responsibilities
* You’ll be working with a team of technology professionals to deliver frequent, incremental, value added iterations to the owner and supply platforms. It is a hands-on role, working directly with Data Analysts, UX/UI Designers, Developers, and QA to deliver a first-class digital experience for owners, suppliers, and a smooth friction free experience for the team in managing the portfolio. Using design thinking, you will be extremely usercentric, championing and identifying user struggle (qualitative) and combining it with a solid analytical approach (quantitative) to weight and prioritise the UX and testing roadmap, basing your decisions on data with the ability to balance business requirements and technical viability throughout the process.
* You will be responsible for developing and implementing best in class design and UX processes, working closely with UX and front-end designers to create seamless owner and supplier experiences, whilst enabling user testing to deliver an optimised experience for our owners and suppliers. As a critical member of the management team, you will develop & contribute to the product vision, oversee how this flows through to requirements and confidently involve the necessary stakeholders to maximise buy-in and success. You will translate business cases into roadmaps, articulating and championing the vision of the owner and supply platform. You will be well versed in all web technologies and development methodologies with the ability to lead and mentor teams and stakeholders to success.
* On a day-to-day basis, you will lead the development team, championing the agile development process, signing off user stories and seeing value delivered through to production in sprints, whilst managing the ongoing enhancements needed to the live digital products. As a key leader in the team, you will nurture and develop a cross-functional team, fostering collaboration across the business, communicating product requirements in a clear structured fashion to both technical and non-technical audiences, creating and delivering regular presentations to stakeholders at every level. You will be constantly reviewing working practices to ensure efficiency, quality, and continuous improvement.
The Ideal Candidate
* We’re looking for someone with proven experience of project management for large scale transactional websites with recent proven experience in a senior position.
* Proven success of building digital platforms with teams of permanent and offshore specialists alongside independent contractors.
* With full commercial responsibility of supply and owner platforms, you will have very strong technical, digital foundations and be highly organised.
* Demonstrated effective understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods.
* Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing talent in the technology department.
* Excellent time management and organisational skills.
* Strong sense of personal accountability, decision-making and experience in line management.
* Experience working in a collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork and collaborative, result-oriented, mentality.
* Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving skills.
* Ability to predict blockers and seek to proactively head-off obstacles.
* Have a technical background enabling technical challenge to proposed solutions.
* Ideally, you’ll have had some experience of working within leisure/travel.
Apply today!
Diamond Search Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency regarding this vacancy.