Senior Discovery Programme Lead

1 dia atrás


Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal Springer Nature Tempo inteiro

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Discovery Programme Lead to join our Portfolio & Governance Office in Springer Nature Technology.

About the Role

The successful candidate will oversee the Discovery phase of a project lifecycle, ensuring that all relevant steps in our stage gate process are prepared and all required project information is captured for Senior Management approval and eventual transition to delivery.

As part of this team, you will be responsible for coordinating teams to ensure that new demand is properly influxed into Springer Nature Technology's (SNT) pipeline - working with stakeholders and SNT teams to analyse the demand and surrounding context, support the generation of business/financial cases or investment requests, prioritise work based on defined criteria, identify and document key benefits (qualitative and quantitative), carry out an impact analysis and assessing trade-offs for decision making, scenario planning - comparing potential options for delivering and making recommendations.

You will also be preparing clear information, documentation and presentations for submission to decision-making stakeholders/boards, working with teams and stakeholders to ensure project-level OKRs and appropriate planning are in place and teams are aligned and working towards them, creating up to date artefacts that communicate roadmaps, progress, risk, and opportunities at an appropriate level, raising and addressing risks and issues to the programme and working with the appropriate teams or individuals to mitigate them, enabling teams to reach decisions quickly and effectively and understand dependencies within and outside the programme, providing support and guidance to colleagues e.g. project managers and BAs, working effectively with 3rd parties as needed to deliver required outcomes, working with various teams to abstract information and translate upstream, ensuring that the teams voices and challenges are heard and escalated, working with sponsors to set up a piece of work, focus them on building an outcome and defining clearly requirements and constraints.

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary range of £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus a range of benefits including flexible working hours, home working options, and a relaxed, friendly work environment.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to work with a cross-functional team, develop your skills and expertise, and contribute to the success of Springer Nature Technology.

If you are a proactive, curious person who provides a calm outlook to those around you, and have experience of managing projects through the full lifecycle, effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, a broad understanding of agile methodologies or frameworks and other industry standard project management tools, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.



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