Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location(s): Pune
About Springer Nature Group
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About The Brand
Workplace Enablement Department delivers robust and effective support for all SN staff across Digital Workplace platforms and services. Our projects support the strategy to streamline line our Digital Workplace, improving efficiencies, maturing our support and governance frameworks.
About The Role
The Senior Manager role will lead a portfolio of projects with a global reach from inception through to implementation and early-life support. The candidate will have substantial stakeholder and business transformation experience in a global environment.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Start-up, shape, lead and deliver Digital Workplace programmes and projects within the agreed time, budget and quality constraints
- Develop and maintain excellent stakeholder relationships on a global basis
- Set up the governance processes for assigned projects ensuring that key resources are actively involved in the project in order to meet project objectives
- Motivate all project resources in the most appropriate manner to achieve outstanding results in delivering the project
- Challenge the status quo and be proactive in suggesting the best way forward for developing solutions to technical and business problems
- Work with product vendors, implementation partners, and internal technology teams to ensure they deliver robust technical specifications and solutions that meet requirements
- Undertake RFI and RFP initiatives in order to select the most appropriate 3rd party solution to meet the needs of the business
- Organise and facilitate workshops & retrospectives
- Communicate with stakeholders, in an appropriate format, to ensure that they are provided with the required level of information for decision making, kept well informed of project progress and any potential issues
- Secure buy-in from business, technology and work council stakeholders and maintain this throughout the project lifecycle, in order to allow projects to initiate and reach successful completion and adoption
Experience, Skills And Qualifications
- At least 7 years project management experience with at least +2 years as a senior Project Manager, with a proven track record, with extensive experience of managing multiple projects to desired milestones.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships at multiple levels, including Work Councils
- Comprehensive experience leading and delivering Digital Workplace projects in a global environment
- Thorough 3rd party engagement and management experience including RFI, RFP, Statement of Work creation
- Strong project lifecycle knowledge having delivered multiple projects from start to finish
- Strong understanding of what is required in creating project artefacts
- Understanding of both waterfall and agile project management techniques
- Ability to create appropriate level project plans to meet the project needs
- Ability to present and communicate technology led opportunities to the business
- Able to create and manage project budgets
- Sound self-organization and planning skills
- Knowledge of organizational change management techniques
- Strong written, oral communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Having a good command of English is important; collaboration is important in our day to day work, so being able to communicate your ideas and understand others’ is key.
- Flexible, able to quickly switch gears and ‘keep multiple irons in the fire’
- Proactive rather than reactive
- Proven ability as a self-starter and results focused
- Degree or higher education is not essential although desirable
- 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.
- Strong leader and experienced in developing team relationships. You value the contributions our teams make to the success of Springer Nature and want to be part of a forward-thinking IT department.
- 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.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of agile and waterfull methodologies
- Business knowledge and understanding of the processes
- Experience of working in a global organisation
- Demonstrate an ability to adapt communication style based on audience
- Experience of hybrid technology projects including Cloud, XaaS, on-prem infrastructures
Eligibility
In accordance with our internal career movement guidance, 12 months in current role is a requirement before applying to a new role
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