Digital Product & Platform Programme Manager
Apply now »Date: Apr 9, 2024
Location: London, GB
Company: Springer Nature Group
Macmillan Education provides world class content in the most relevant, engaging and flexible formats to support students, teachers and institutions through a lifetime of learning. Macmillan Education produces content for English Language Teaching (ELT) and for Schools curricula around the world whilst Palgrave Higher Education develops and distributes textbooks, e-books and interactive e-learning resources primarily for University-level students.
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Working within dynamic and fast paced programmes, the Digital Product & Platform Programme Manager will report to the Director of Digital Product for the delivery of a number of interrelated workstreams across platform roll-outs and legacy platform lifecycle management, new platform feature launches, sales engagement, customer support and launch to market. The Programme Manager will manage the workstream leads to ensure all milestones remain on track and that target dates are achieved for the programmes. |
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The Digital Product & Platform Programme Manager takes responsibility for the successful delivery of the programme to quality, budget and scope, leading to business critical customer-facing product launches and sales of new products.
The Digital Product & Platform Programme Manager engages and oversees the allocated internal resources and manages any risks and issues related to the Programme deliverables. |
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Experience, Skills & Qualifications |
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Qualifications
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Need to be Capable of: Technical Capability Uses technical / job knowledge and experience to meet and exceed job requirements / customer expectations. Efficiently manages workload and projects within set timelines and to agreed budget, achieving set objectives.
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Customer Focus (internal and external customers) Nurtures relationships by recognising and delivering on internal and external customer’s needs and opinions. Helps others to understand the implications of their decisions. Develops and sustains productive internal and external customer relationships.
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Relationship Building/ Teamwork (incorporating Communication, Influencing and Trust) Builds effective relationships through positive communication that motivates and influences others. Honest and trustworthy; a valued team member, actively involved in achieving team objectives. Works cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team.
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Managing Complexity (incorporating change management and flexibility) Is able to work effectively in a highly complex, diverse, changing environment. Maintains a high level of performance under conditions of increased pressure, competition and adversity. Proactively pursues opportunities to drive change that add value to the business. #LI-CO1
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Problem Solving Takes initiative to identify current and potential problems and determines the best solution. Identifies the cause of problems and key issues through investigation; identifies effective, logical and practical solutions.
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