Senior Project Manager

1 Month ago • All levels • Project Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing a new AI product for researchers. This role involves managing complex, agile projects with various stakeholders and proactively finding solutions to complex problems. Responsibilities include managing issues, risks, and change requests, providing project management support for strategic initiatives, and serving as the main point of contact for stakeholders. The role also involves developing workflows, producing reports, creating project plans, organizing meetings, leading project teams, and ensuring project success.
Must have:
  • Strong leadership and motivational skills.
  • Extensive experience in project management.
  • Ability to adapt to change and competing demands.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • High attention to detail and organized approach.
Good to have:
  • Knowledge and experience in research or publishing industries.

Job Details

Job Title: Senior Project Manager 

Location: London & Heidelberg - Hybrid Working Model  

Application Deadline: Thursday 26th June 2025

 

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 / @SpringerNatureGroup  

 

About the Role 

We are seeking an experienced project manager to support the next phase of a new AI product for researchers. You will be adept at managing complex, agile projects with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels. You will take initiative and proactively find new solutions to complex problems.  

This role does not directly provide project management support to the development team. 

Role Responsibilities 

  • Manage issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time delivery. 

  • Provide project management support for a complex initiative with C-suite and other stakeholders, which is of strategic importance. 

  • Assume the role as the main point of contact for internal and external project stakeholders throughout the delivery of the project. 

  • Develop and enhance operations workflow and best practice. 

  • Produce and analyse reports for key stakeholders. 

  • Responsible for creating, owning and implementing a full project planThis would include identifying the project milestones, dependencies, resources, risks & issues and deliverablesThis will include scheduling of components of a project, taking into account the requirements and needs of other stakeholders. 

  • Organising and chairing regular project update meetings, setting appropriate KPIs and OKRs, tracking progress against plan and keep project teams and steering groups updated on progress. 

  • Lead project teams covering all relevant internal and external stakeholders. 

  • Where relevant, establish on-going monitoring and reporting to support projectsEnsure projects are delivered successfully against set objectives and within the context of best practice guidelines as required by the business and external stakeholders. 

  • Create and communicate regularly to all team members and stakeholders objectives, schedules, deadlines, detailed budgets, and all other project parameters and constraints; during the life of the project, troubleshoot and respond quickly to issues to reduce impact on time/cost/quality. 

  • Manage project budgets, monitoring expenditure and efficiency. 

  • Where relevant, facilitate strong relationships with internal stakeholders and other relevant business stakeholders and develop activities to support shared objectives. 

  • Contribute to and support internal communications, providing regular updates on progress and confidently present to stakeholders as needed.  

  • Adapt in a fast-paced environment, prioritise tasks and lead on additional project responsibilities as required. 

 

Experience, Skills & Qualifications 

Essential 

  • Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business units/ departments. 

  • Extensive demonstrable experience of project management, including tracking and planning projects. 

  • Self-motivated, decisive with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands. 

  • Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions and identifying priorities. 

  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. 

  • High attention to detail, organised and proactive. 

  • Ability to solve complex and detailed problems using an analytical and data driven approach.  

  • Confident in establishing and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external project stakeholders. 

  • Advanced people management skills and relationship-building: ability to manage relationships at a distance. 

  • Ability to work under pressure and prioritise work accordingly. 

  • Proficiency with a project management tool. 

  • Demonstrable experience of project managing complex projects in matrix structures. 

  • Strong relevant experience in a project management position. 

  • Demonstrable customer-centric focus. 

  • Track record of managing external agencies, freelancers, consultants and suppliers including supporting tender process and selection and ongoing oversight. 

  • Demonstrable commercial accumen. 

 

Desirable 

  • Knowledge and experience in research or publishing industries. 

 

At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the very best talent. 

 

Springer Nature was awarded Diversity Team of the Year at the 2022 British Diversity Awards. Find out more about our DEI work here https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/taking-responsibility/diversity-equity-inclusion 

 

If you have any access needs related to disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary accommodation. 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 either by phone on +44 (0)207 014 4020 or by email SpringerNatureUKCareers@springernature.com so we can make any necessary arrangements. 

 

For more information about career opportunities in Springer Nature please visit https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatureCareers/ 

 

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Job Posting End Date:

26-06-2025

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