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Job Title: Programme Manager
Location: Warsaw, Madrid, London, Mexico – Hybrid Working Model
Application Deadline: Thursday 31st October 2024
About the Role:
As a Programme Manager, you will be responsible for driving the successful execution of our publishing plan, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. You will lead a global team, optimise processes, and collaborate with key stakeholders to enhance the efficiency and performance of our publishing operations.
Role Responsibilities:
- Programme Management: Lead the execution of the publishing plan, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and budget.
- Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of six direct reports, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
- Process Optimisation: Identify new opportunities to streamline and improve publishing processes to enhance efficiency and productivity across the global team.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including the BPO team, to align goals and achieve successful outcomes.
- Data Utilisation: Develop data insights that drive strategic planning and workflow development. Enhance dashboards to consolidate data sources and visualise all sources of KPI data in an easy-to-understand form.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks in the programme plan and implement mitigation strategies to ensure smooth project execution.
Experience, Skills & Qualifications:
Essential :
- Publishing Experience: Proven experience in programme management within the publishing industry, preferably in ELT (English Language Teaching)
- Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team, with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Project Management: Strong project management skills with a track record of delivering projects on time and within budget and Project Management certification.
- Business intelligence experience: Demonstrable analytical skills and experience building analytical structures to surface actionable insights that improve portfolio performance.
- Data modeling and managemen t: Experienced in consolidating and cleaning disparate data sets to improve usage of data to shape our delivery plans.
Desirable :
- Global team experience: Experience working with global teams and managing diverse ways of working.
- Change management: Experience in leading change management initiatives to improve organizational processes and culture.
- Problem-solving: Experience of issue resolution, bringing together disparate teams.
- Technical skills : Advanced Excel skills are essential including formula construction, add-ins and VBA. Experience working with Looker, APIs and SQL or similar programming is highly desirable.
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
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Job Posting End Date:
31-10-2024
