Senior Project Manager

TL;DR

Senior Project Manager (Edtech): Managing multiple technical projects within Macmillan Education IT team, providing direction and support to scrum teams and ensuring project delivery on time and within budget. Focus on strategic planning, risk management, and fostering team spirit and collaboration to enhance online learning experiences globally.

Location: London

Company

Springer provides a portfolio of products and services for researchers, students and professionals, which includes journals, databases and researcher services.

What you will do

• Manage multiple technical projects within a business portfolio, providing direction and support to scrum teams.
• Create detailed project plans, track milestones, manage risk, provide clear updates on progress, and handle releases.
• Act as a leader and mentor to delivery teams, working with the business to mitigate risks and maintain planned development velocity.
• Foster team spirit, collaboration, and develop a high-performing, empowered team with a clear purpose and schedule of tasks.
• Provide management guidance and support in all aspects of the project lifecycle.
• Ensure clear and precise communications internally within the project and externally to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Proven experience in managing multiple concurrent technology software development projects to successful completion.
• Extensive experience managing third-party near & offshore vendors, responsible for delivering products or services to a high standard.
• Numerate and technically literate with a range of IT skills and an interest in improving production processes.
• Strong leader and experienced in developing team relationships.
• Proven track record of delivering technical projects and providing leadership/oversight to Software Development, through Agile, waterfall or hybrid methodology.
• 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of a forward-thinking IT department.
• Maximise teams’ skills and identifies deficiencies and creates associated mitigations/recommendations to optimise teams’ performance.