Project Manager

Job description

About the Role

We're looking for a Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of large-scale business and technology change initiatives that support the continued growth and evolution of Oxford University Press globally. Working across Academic Technology portfolios, you will take ownership of end-to-end project delivery, managing complex programmes and stand-alone projects that deliver meaningful business outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering strategic change across a diverse international organisation.

As Project Manager, you will work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, delivery partners and subject matter experts to define project scope, establish delivery approaches, and drive projects through to successful completion. You will be responsible for managing governance, risks, issues, dependencies, resources and budgets, ensuring projects are delivered to agreed timescales, quality standards and business objectives. You will also help foster a collaborative, solutions-focused approach, bringing clarity and structure to complex and evolving initiatives.

The successful candidate will be a confident and adaptable project professional with excellent stakeholder management skills and a track record of delivering complex change projects. You will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, balancing competing priorities while maintaining a strong focus on outcomes, quality and continuous improvement. Experience of structured project management methodologies, effective governance practices and cross-functional collaboration will be essential, alongside the ability to influence, communicate and build strong relationships at all levels of the organisation.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

• Strong background and understanding of project management and end to end delivery models for change initiatives.
• Demonstrable skills and knowledge of successfully implementing technology projects such as upgrades, migrations, and transformation programmes.
• Strong project management background including operating in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of shaping and defining project scopes and embedding a governance structure to achieve the business case outcomes.
• Ability to identify, track and concisely define internal and external dependencies across portfolios and projects. Accountable for divisional outcomes and work through ambiguity and define portfolio work packages to deliver to quality, cost, and time.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build collaborative relationships whilst holding to account and having challenging conversations.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills, track record of developing and mentoring individuals.
• Ability to lead through uncertainty, helping business stakeholders shape demand, assess options and risks to achieve optimum outcomes.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact [email protected] with any queries relating to this role.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.