Senior Project Manager

Role -Senior Project Manager – (Content Acquisition, Research Integrity & Manuscript Screening) Location - Pune About Springer Nature Group Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading global research, educational, and professional publishers.

With over 180 years of heritage and nearly 13,000 staff across more than 50 countries, we deliver trusted brands and content through innovative digital products and services that help researchers discover, students learn, and professionals advance in their fields.

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to coordinate a number of key technology initiatives for the Research Integrity and Manuscript Screening programme.

This role will be responsible for driving delivery across multiple teams toward a shared vision and objectives.

Focused on facilitating agile delivery, maintaining a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring effective coordination, collaboration and reporting across teams and departments.

The Research Integrity and Manuscript Screening Programme is a strategic initiative focused on safeguarding the quality and integrity of published research.

We deliver products and capabilities that identify potential research integrity concerns, automate and scale manuscript screening activities, and integrate actionable insights directly into editorial workflows.

Working across complex business and technology domains, the programme aims to reduce operational burden, improve decision consistency, and ensure that research integrity threats are identified and addressed as early as possible in the publishing process.

About the brand Content Acquisition (CA) is a domain in Springer Nature Digital that ensures our researchers, editors and reviewers can publish their content in the most efficient, user-centric and rewarding process possible.

Our vison is “An intuitive, convenient and rewarding publishing experience.” SN Digital (SND) is a technology division of Springer Nature responsible for acquiring, maintaining and delivering millions of articles used by researchers, scientists and students around the globe.

There are about 300 of us in London, Berlin, Lisbon, Pune, New York, Madrid, Dordrecht and Heidelberg.

We work in collaborative, multi-disciplinary delivery teams, developing digital products and services that answer user problems and support business goals.

The work is interesting and meaningful.

Our culture is collaborative and friendly.

We encourage and support growth, both personal and professional.

This is a terrific opportunity for friendly, inquisitive people who want to get involved in our work, who love to learn, who will embrace and develop our culture, and help make SND a place where people and ideas can thrive.

We are intentionally looking to create teams that are diverse and inclusive.

Diversity is the mix of culture, background, experience and personality that we all bring; inclusion is getting the mix to work better together.

We want every member of our teams to contribute to our common goals while respecting each other's skills, knowledge and needs.

About the role Our products and initiatives deliver value to our global business through collaboration between cross-discipline teams.

Project Managers work with stakeholders to ensure the technical deliveries are understood, planned, tracked, delivered on time, to budget and are fit for purpose.

You will be responsible for tracking and reporting on the project status and be a leading figure in formulating quarterly objectives and delivery roadmaps.

You will lead on harnessing the team’s talents to ensure they are delivering the highest value products and functionalities.

You will be working with cross functional delivery teams with different backgrounds and experience levels.

All team members collaborate to deliver solutions that best satisfy the needs of our users and we are working to create a culture that encourages new ideas and innovation, but within the boundaries of the technologies that best suit the Springer Nature vision.

What you will be doing Responsibilities Coordinate the delivery of initiatives across multiple teams.

Creating delivery plans, tracking milestones, managing risk, reporting regularly and openly Ensure product delivery teams are able to reach decisions quickly and effectively Sustain our culture of continuous improvement both from a process and technical perspective ensuring that valuable software is delivered frequently Coordinate with the Programme leadership team to ensure that goals, objectives, and delivery timelines are aligned.

Ensure delivery of project outcomes is within scope, committed timelines and quality expectations are met.

Coordinate the creation and monitoring of quarterly goals Raise, manage and track risks, issues and dependencies Leverage data driven forecasting to enable strategic delivery and capacity planning, ensuring resources are balanced and aligned with prioritised objectives Provide guidance and support, in all aspects of the project lifecycle Facilitate agile best practices Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership and empowerment within teams Within 3 Months you will: Get to know all members of the teams you work with, understanding their roles and contributions within and across teams to foster collaboration and alignment.

Get to know our culture, values and ways of working.

Continuously monitor and identify pain points in teams and areas for improvement ensuring effective collaboration and alignment.

Become familiar with the products being developed, understanding how they are connected across multiple teams to deliver on overarching business goals.

Build strong relationships and trust with stakeholders and collaborators.

Become familiar with the Research Integrity & Manuscript Screening Programme structure and operating model, including delivery governance and reporting.

Within 6 Months you will: Act as the facilitator to teams by, but not limited to, scheduling and supporting ceremonies, workshops and inc