Senior Project Manager – Content Acquisition & Research Integrity

About the role

Springer Nature is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead technology initiatives for the Research Integrity and Manuscript Screening programme. You will coordinate multiple cross‑functional teams, drive agile delivery, and ensure high‑quality outcomes that safeguard the integrity of published research.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate delivery of initiatives across several teams, creating plans, tracking milestones and managing risks.
• Ensure product delivery teams make quick, effective decisions and maintain a culture of continuous improvement.
• Align programme goals, objectives and timelines with leadership, and monitor quarterly targets.
• Use data‑driven forecasting for capacity planning and resource balancing.
• Facilitate agile best practices, raise and track risks, issues and dependencies.
• Mentor teams on agile and lean principles and foster collaboration and ownership.

Required profile

• Proven project management experience in software engineering, delivering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Experience with goal setting, road‑mapping and aligning objectives across diverse groups.
• Expertise in lean practices and vertical slicing of user stories for continuous delivery.
• Strong ability to track, report and communicate project status to stakeholders.

Required skills

• Agile and lean methodology implementation.
• Data‑driven forecasting and capacity planning.
• Risk, issue and dependency management.