Reporting and Project Specialist

3 Weeks ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Reporting and Project Specialist, as part of the Editorial Excellence Team, will manage projects related to the Editorial Excellence teams (Indexing, Policy, and Research Integrity Teams). The role involves ensuring quality and performance across processes and systems, building relationships with key business partners, and overseeing vendor interactions. Responsibilities include managing workstreams, providing central knowledge, delivering projects within agreed timeframes, monitoring the impact of initiatives, communicating with stakeholders, and providing project-level reporting. This is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract (FTC) for 3 days per week.
Must have:
  • Manage and develop complex business projects.
  • Work with a wide range of stakeholders globally.
Good to have:
  • Good understanding of research publishing landscape.
  • Experience in new technologies and workflows.
  • Experience of negotiation.
Perks:
  • Competitive salary range
  • Great employee benefits

Job Details

Job Title: Reporting and Project Specialist - Part time, 12 months FTC

Location: London

Application Deadline:  30th May 2025

About Springer Nature Group

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.


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Purpose of the Role 

12 months FTC - 3 days per week

The Reporting and Project Specialist will, as part of the Editorial Excellence Team, provide project management expertise, to ensure quality and performance across the processes and systems within the Editorial Excellence teams (namely the Indexing team, the Policy team, and the Research Integrity Teams), successful relationships with key business partners, and good outcomes from work with the vendors that the integrity team needs to deliver its objectives.  

 

Responsibilities 

  • Project manage the integrity team’s workstreams and projects, with particular attention to high-stakes projects 

  • Act as a central point of knowledge regarding these business areas, providing information and insights to support the work of colleagues in the Editorial Excellence team and wider company. 

  • Start-up and deliver business projects within agreed timeframes. 

  • Work with implementation teams as needed to ensure the delivery of solutions which support the business needs. 

  • Monitor the impact of initiatives, ensuring appropriate reporting and analysis is in place to measure success and identifying areas for further improvement. 

  • Communicate with stakeholders to ensure that they have the information required for decision-making and are kept well informed of progress and of any risks and/or issues. Secure and maintain buy-in from stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, developing and maintaining excellent relationships, for successful delivery. 

  • Provide project level reporting across all initiatives. 

Experience, Skills & Qualifications 

Essential 

  • Experience of managing and developing complex and interconnected business projects. 

  • Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders at various levels and on a global scale. 

 

Desirable 

  • A good understanding of the research publishing landscape and how journals and journal publishers serve the research community. A good understanding of research integrity challenges facing publishers and researchers. 

  • Experience in the successful transition and implementation of new technologies and workflows in a commercial environment. 

  • Experience of negotiation; experience of successfully integrating customer and operational requirements. 

  • Knowledge and experience of working with and applying Lean, Six Sigma methodologies. 

 

Skills 

  • Understanding of publishing workflows. 

  • Understanding of research integrity issues 

  • Excellent organisation skills to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities. 

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate with individuals at all levels and on a global scale. Excellent numeracy skills with proven attention to detail. 

  • Excel and PowerPoint proficiency. 

  • Good problem solving/logic/analytical skills with the ability to capture and document requirements and processes. Proactive and able to lead projects alone as well as part of a large group.  

 

In return, we offer a competitive salary range and great employee benefits. 

Please submit a CV and covering letter outlining your experience and interest for the role. 

  

Springer Nature is a Disability Confident Committed Employer and we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities. If you consider yourself to have a disability or learning difficulty and wish to submit your application in an alternative format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the application and interview process, please get in touch by email :  

SpringerNatureUKCareers@springernature.com so we can make any necessary arrangements. 

 

At Springer Nature we value and celebrate the diversity of our people. We recognise the many benefits of a diverse workforce and strive for an inclusive workplace that empowers all our colleagues to thrive. Our search for the best talent fully encompasses and embraces these values and principles.

https://group.springernature.com/jp/group/taking-responsibility/diversity-equity-inclusion. 

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Job Posting End Date:

31-05-2025

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