Project Manager in London, United Kingdom

Project Manager

Do you enjoy taking ownership for delivering successful projects?

Would you like to be part of a multi-functional team delivering business critical projects across a global technical landscape?

About our Team

We are a team of project managers who work across Elsevier’s Technology, Infrastructure & Operations division to deliver strategic, innovative and transformational change. We collaborate globally and work cross-functionally to ensure flawless and robust delivery. We deliver a variety of successful technology projects and programmes that create value and provide inspired solutions for our customers and business.

Role Responsibilities

• Taking ownership for driving and managing projects to deliver successful outcomes for our technology teams.

• Project manage cross-functional delivery teams by working closely with all areas of our technical and business communities.

• Collaborating with stakeholders to manage project schedules, expectations, and budgets.

• Leading and managing technical projects that vary in budget and complexity to deliver successful business outcomes.

• Working with assigned project teams to execute deliverables, manage delivery roadmaps, establish project schedules, and resolve issues.

• Ensuring we execute and deliver successful projects on-time, to quality and to budget.

• Managing project governance and reporting to ensure policies, processes and standards are followed.

• Managing internal and external dependencies to ensure deliverables are executed to achieve successful business outcomes.

• Leading and implementing best practices to improve our methodology and quality of delivery across our projects.

Requirements

• Have excellent knowledge and experience of delivering projects using project management methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.

• Be experienced in using Jira, Confluence and other Project Management tools.

• Be a naturally strong communicator, with an ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and present technical content.

• Be an innovative, collaborative and positive team player with excellent relationship building skills.

• Have a proven record of great project outcomes and delivery success.

• Be able to design and deliver project plans and align and manage project deliverables and tasks for successful execution.

• A tenacious, results-oriented outlook with the ability to prioritize and deliver key initiatives.

• Highly self-organized and detail-oriented with the ability to handle multiple concurrent projects and priorities.

• A good level of technical awareness including some knowledge of cloud services such as AWS.

• Have experience of managing risks and issues to delivery and taking ownership of proactive mitigation plans.

• Have solid experience of establishing, managing, and monitoring project budgets and forecasts.

• Be able to travel and work either in our London office or Oxford office around twice a month.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours – flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

• Wellbeing programs

• Life assurance

• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

• Save As You Earn share option scheme

• Travel Season ticket loan

• Electric Vehicle Scheme

• Optional Dental Insurance

• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children

• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

• Access to extensive learning and development resources

• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About the Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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