Sr Project Manager

Job Summary

Role -Senior Project Manager - (Content Acquisition, Research Integrity & Manuscript Screening)

Location - Pune

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.

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 inceptions.
• Proactively identify and drive opportunities to improve team ways of working
• Lead cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, coordinated, and continuous delivery across our portfolio of projects and products, fostering collaboration between teams and disciplines.

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