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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><strong>Job Title: Project Manager – Editorial Rights team <br />
Office Location: Kings Cross, London, UK <br />
Full Time, fixed term role to end of 2022 <br />
Hybrid working from home / office <br />
Closing date: 3^rd March 2022 </strong></p>
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<p>Springer Nature is looking for a Project Manager to join the Editorial Rights department. This team manages the rights acquisition processes across Springer Nature’s book, journal and magazine global publishing divisions.</p>
<p>The Project Manager, reporting to the Editorial Rights Director, will provide high quality project support on a wide variety of projects aimed at improving the efficiency of the rights acquisition processes within the publishing divisions and the Editorial Rights department.  </p>
<p>The Project Manager will be responsible for maintaining effective project frameworks, working with business stakeholders, managing schedules, actions, risks, issues and mitigations, maintaining project documentation and handling project related queries to ensure all business deliverables are met efficiently and on schedule. This role will suit an organised individual with a good foundation of project management and strong attention to detail.</p>
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<p>Responsibilities</p>
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<li>Support the day to day management of projects to ensure deliverables are met on time. Includes coordinating project schedules and meetings, documenting key decisions, minutes and actions from meetings, and following up on any actions. </li>
<li>Manage the governance process for assigned projects ensuring that key resources are actively involved in the project in order to meet the project objectives and relevant information is efficiently transferred between all stakeholders.</li>
<li>Report and communicate in a timely manner on project objectives, schedules and deadlines to project team members and stakeholders.</li>
<li>Tracking all projects on the roadmap and ensuring progress is regularly reported back to the business, including identifying risks on project deliverables. </li>
<li>Build and maintain the development of best practices, how to guides, onboarding and training documents, gathering required inputs and pulling them together into a consistent set of material. </li>
<li>Collate and analyse data to produce reports and dashboards to monitor business KPIs and identify effective workflow improvements for the Editorial Rights team and business stakeholders.</li>
<li>Think creatively and to be adaptive in finding solutions whilst proactively engaging with stakeholders</li>
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<p><strong>Experience, Skills & Qualifications:</strong></p>
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<li>Experience managing multiple projects </li>
<li>Strong stakeholder management skills</li>
<li>Previously worked in a publishing company and/or a large deadline driven organisation</li>
<li>excellent data manipulation, statistical and analysis skills, with high proficiency in Excel  </li>
<li>Highly organised and proactive with the ability to manage time, projects and stakeholders effectively </li>
<li>Excellent verbal and written skills, with an eye for detail and accuracy</li>
<li>Works well under pressure: adapting to a fast-paced environment while maintaining quality of work and positive attitude with colleagues </li>
<li>Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team</li>
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<p><strong>To apply: </strong>Please include a CV and covering letter outlining your motivations for this exciting opportunity. </p>