About the Role
Ogilvy One is seeking a Freelance Senior Digital Project Manager in Sydney to build award-winning brands and solve business problems creatively. You will serve as a senior consultant to clients, managing multiple concurrent projects, client relationships, and account financial performance. The role requires strategic thinking, technical acumen, and hands-on leadership in complex project lifecycles, balancing marketing automation, CRM solutions, and content management systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional teams through full project lifecycles, from initiation to deployment, ensuring timely, on-budget, and quality delivery.
- Develop and oversee comprehensive project plans detailing resources, milestones, risks, dependencies, and timelines.
- Collaborate with client and internal stakeholders (creative, data, content, consulting, technology) to define objectives and gather requirements.
- Utilise and promote project management and workflow platforms (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Wrike, Monday.com, SharePoint) for tracking, reporting, communication, and workflow effectiveness.
- Implement best practices for project management, adopting methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
- Engage with marketing automation platforms (Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle, Braze, Sitecore, Magento, Tealium) and customer data platforms (CDP), CRM, and CMS technologies.
- Mentor and guide junior project managers, championing team excellence and continuous improvement.
- Foster a productive, inclusive, and collaborative environment across distributed teams in various geographies and time zones.
- Manage project profitability, resource allocation, and proactively mitigate risks and issues.
- Support pre-sales activities by preparing proposals, statements of work, and change requests.
- Maintain governance standards, regularly updating project documentation and compliance.
Requirements
- Experience in digital project management, preferably in agency or consulting contexts, with a track record in marketing automation, CRM, and CMS implementations.
- Experience with PM/Workflow platforms (Wrike or Monday) and collaboration tools (Slack, Teams, Zoom).
- Familiarity with HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, and DevOps processes is advantageous.
- Deep understanding of Agile, Waterfall, hybrid, and servient leadership approaches.
- Strong stakeholder and team management skills, proven mentoring capability.
- Experience with large-scale digital marketing solutions, CX technologies, and digital transformation in diverse industry sectors.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Skills
- Marketing automation
- CRM
- CMS
- Jira
- Confluence
- Wrike
- Monday.com
- SharePoint
- Agile
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- Salesforce
- Adobe
- Oracle
- Braze
- Sitecore
- Magento
- Tealium
- CDP
- HTML
- XML
- JavaScript
- SQL
- APIs
- DevOps
- Slack
- Teams
- Zoom
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Freelance
- Digital
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- PMP, Scrum Master, or SAFe certification preferred
