Project Manager - Data Projects

Springer Nature is seeking an agile Project Manager to join the SN Data – Data Competence Centre within Springer Nature Operations. This role is part of a transformation program to drive sustained change in how the company understands, manages, and uses its data. The position is based in London (UK) or Berlin (Germany) and reports to the Programme Manager for Enterprise Data & Business Reporting.

Must Have

• Established track record of planning, delivering, and monitoring successful projects using Scrum or similar agile processes
• Experience working with stakeholders and teams to define achievable backlogs
• Strong understanding of servant leadership and driving delivery in agile and hybrid environments
• Ability to help teams find focus and solve complex problems
• Experience facilitating teams to communicate technical context to non-technical stakeholders
• Good communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to run effective team ceremonies (refinement, planning, stand-ups, showcases, retrospectives)
• Capability to foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and empowerment
• Experience defining project-level OKRs and managing work against them
• Proficiency in raising and addressing project risks and issues
• Ability to act as a facilitator for teams and working groups
• Skill in creating artefacts that communicate roadmaps, progress, risk, and opportunities
• Commitment to continuous improvement and ensuring frequent business outcomes

Perks & Benefits

• Flexibility to work from home three days a week
• Relaxed and friendly environment
• Equal opportunity employer
• Opportunities to learn from industry best
• Culture that encourages curiosity and empowers people to find solutions and act on their instincts

About Springer Nature:

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow. Visit group.springernature.com and follow @SpringerNature.

About Role:

We’re looking for an agile Project Manager to join the SN Data – Data Competence Centre within Springer Nature Operations. You would be joining a transformation programme to drive sustained change in how Springer Nature understands, manages, and uses its data: building up data capabilities to create a foundation, adding value to cross-organisation initiatives and data-driven transformation.

The role will be based in London (UK) or Berlin (Germany), reporting to the Programme Manager for Enterprise Data & Business Reporting. There will be travel at times with colleagues in many of our global offices.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We work in a relaxed and friendly environment, offering the flexibility to work from home three days a week.

About You:

You are an organised, problem-solver who knits teams together around a shared goal. You actively seek decisions and demonstrate the learning mindset that will help the team you’re on adapt to ever-changing situations.

Experience

You will have:

• An established track record of planning, delivering, and monitoring successful projects using the Scrum framework (or similar agile processes) with small, cross-functional project teams as a Project Manager, Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, or equivalent.
• Experience working with stakeholders and teams to define achievable backlogs of work from ideas
• A strong understanding of servant leadership and driving delivery in agile and hybrid environments
• A list of improvements that you’ve been responsible for in the way your current team or project works
• Past experience in helping teams find focus and know where to start solving complex problems
• A broad understanding of agile methodologies or frameworks, and other industry-standard project management tools
• Experience facilitating teams in gathering and presenting information to clearly communicate the technical context to non-technical stakeholders
• Good communication, stakeholder management, negotiation and conflict resolution skills

Key tasks

• Run effective team ceremonies – refinement, planning, stand-ups, showcases and retrospectives, for example.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership and empowerment, bringing people together with a clear purpose.
• Work with teams and stakeholders to define project-level OKRs, plan, collaborate, and manage work against them.
• Raise and address risks and issues in the project and work with the appropriate teams or individuals to mitigate them
• Act as the facilitator to a team or working group, scheduling and supporting regular cadences of meetings or workshops that drive work forward
• Mentoring the team on agile and lean principles & practices if needed
• Management of stakeholders, inter-team relationships, and dependencies with the Programme Manager as appropriate
• Providing support and input to all aspects of the project – from business case through to delivering value for the business and its customers
• Create artefacts that communicate, amongst other things, roadmaps, progress, risk, and opportunities at an appropriate level
• You’ll sustain our culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that business outcomes are delivered frequently, engineering and data quality are considered in their context and issues are addressed quickly