Project Manager

Frontiers is a large, influential open-access research publisher dedicated to making science open. The organization empowers the global scientific community to accelerate discovery and develop solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet by ensuring research is peer-reviewed, quality-certified, and accessible to everyone.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects across departments, ensuring alignment with defined scope, timelines, budgets, and strategic priorities;
• Develop and maintain project documentation, including project charters, plans, schedules, risk registers, action logs, and status reports;
• Organize and facilitate regular project meetings, ensuring accurate tracking of actions, risks, issues, decisions, and next steps;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project goals, requirements, deliverables, ownership, and success measures;
• Communicate project progress, risks, issues, and dependencies clearly to stakeholders;
• Escalate critical blockers and risks to support timely and controlled project delivery;
• Coordinate with Product, Technology, Editorial, Marketing, operational leads, project sponsors, and OKR owners to ensure alignment with strategic initiatives;
• Ensure projects are well managed, clearly documented, and regularly reported in line with agreed delivery practices;
• Support audit and review processes by maintaining accurate project records;
• Contribute to OKR planning and delivery tracking for assigned projects;
• Participate in post-project reviews, capture lessons learned, and apply improvements to future delivery;
• Share observations and practical suggestions with the project management team;
• Apply project management best practices to improve delivery outcomes.

• 3-5 Years of experience in project management or a related role;
• Proven track record of delivering medium-sized projects with cross-functional teams;
• Experience managing projects in a flexible and fast-moving environment;
• Strong understanding of project delivery across initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure;
• Experience with project scheduling, risk management, dependency tracking, and status reporting;
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels;
• Familiarity with strategic alignment and OKR-based delivery frameworks;
• Experience with Agile and/or Waterfall project management methodologies;
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365, Jira, Confluence, and collaboration tools;
• Understanding of project delivery in digital, publishing, or operational transformation contexts;
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills with high attention to detail;
• Nice to have: Professional certification such as CAPM, PMP, Agile/Scrum, Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Communications or related discipline, experience supporting OKR planning or strategic reporting, experience working with external stakeholders.

• Extra wellbeing days on top of annual leave allowance;
• Up to 3 paid volunteering days each year;
• 24/7 Confidential Employee Assistance Programme for wellbeing, mental health, legal, and financial support;
• Learning and development support via the Frontiers Learning Hub.