Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager page is loaded Senior Project Managerlocations: Londontime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR104986 Job Title: Senior Project Manager Location: London About Springer Nature: Springer provides a portfolio of products and services for researchers, students and professionals, which includes journals, databases and researcher services. Springer works closely with scientific and professional communities to provide them with superior specialist information and knowledge. We are currently looking for a Senior Project manager to join our Macmillan Education IT Team in London. At Macmillan Education, the senior project Manager's role is key to ensuring the success of project delivery, leveraging their experience and skills to build top-notch, learning products and services, harnessing the talents of the amazing people in our teams to make that happen. How we manage projects :Our projects deliver value to our global businesses, through our cross-discipline teams, consisting of inhouse staff as well as trusted development partners from a host of global organisations. As Senior project Manager you will work with the business to ensure the technical deliveries are understood, planned, tracked, delivered on time, to budget and are fit for purpose, including code best practice, accessibility, design and quality assurance.We build our software incrementally, iteratively and continuously, to support our business demand for digital learning and online content sharing, to schools, institutes, and homes globally to enhance online learning. You will focus on strategic planning and tracking of milestones, dependencies and risk management to ensure teams are What you will be doing: Managing multiple technical projects within a business portfolio. Giving direction and support to scrum teams. Creating detailed project plans, tracking milestones, managing risk, providing clear updates on progress and releasing. Acting as leader and mentor to our delivery teams. Working with the business to mitigate risks. Maintain planned development velocity. Fostering team spirit, collaboration and developing a high performing, empowered team with a clear purpose and schedule of tasks. Providing Management guidance and support, in all aspects of the project lifecycle - from product definition, technical decisions and user experience through to marketing and sales. Working with internal multiple teams, 3rd party suppliers to ensure that they understand our project goals and deliver within quality, cost and schedule. Ensuring communications internally within the project and externally to stakeholders are clear and precise. Desired experience: Proven experience in managing multiple concurrent technology software development projects, to successful completion and able to demonstrate hands-on expertise. Extensive experience of Managing third-party near & offshore vendors, responsible for delivering products or services to a high-standard. You will be numerate and technically literate with a range of IT skills and an interest in improving our production processes. Strong leader and experienced in developing team relationships. You value the contributions our teams make to the success of Macmillan Education and want to be part of a forward-thinking IT department. Your Experience: Proven track record of delivering technical projects and providing leadership / oversight to Software Development, through Agile, waterfall or hybrid methodology, with extensive experience of managing multiple projects to desired milestones. Strong leadership skills, able to demonstrate team direction to support delivery schedules, including managing risks / Issues, dependencies / mitigations, associated communications to all levels including C-level. Demonstrable experience of building teams, business relationships and motivating / mentoring teams. Strong influencer who works well with matrix teams and business stakeholders. Leveraging the best from each department or skill to support delivery and team harmony. Strong organiser, who is detailed, methodical, task orientated, able to adapt and adjust to focus milestones, which support OKR's and KPI's. A confident goals and objectives setter, who can demonstrate experience of multitasking, whilst still delivering. Maximises teams' skills and identifies deficiencies and creates associated mitigations / recommendations to optimise teams' performance. are an ambitious and dynamic organisation, and home to some of the best-known names in research, educational and professional publishing.Working at the heart of a changing industry, we are always looking for great people who care about delivering quality to our customers and the communities we work alongside. In return, you will find that we open the doors to discovery for all our employees - offering opportunities to learn from some of the best in the business, with a culture that encourages curiosity and empowers people to find solutions and act on their instincts. Whether you are at the beginning of your career or are an experienced professional, we invite you to find out more about the roles we offer and explore our current vacancies.We are a global and progressive business, founded on a heritage of trusted and respected brands - including Springer, founded in 1842, Macmillan, founded in 1843 and Nature, first published in 1869.Nearly two centuries of progress and advancement in science and education have helped shape the business we are today. Research and learning continues to be the cornerstone of progress, and we will continue to open doors to discovery through trusted brands and innovative products and services. Springer Nature Group was created in May 2015 through the combination of Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media.