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VP Digital (m/f)
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VP SN Digital (m/f)
Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading global research, educational and professional publishers. It is home to an array of respected and trusted brands and imprints, with more than 170 years of combined history behind them, providing quality content through a range of innovative products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people, helping researchers and scientists to discover, students to learn and professionals to achieve their goals and ambitions. The company has almost 13,000 staff in over 50 countries.
Springer Nature trusted brands include Springer, Nature Research, BioMed Central, Palgrave Macmillan and Scientific American, as well as a family of respected and specialist imprints.
We publish the world’s most influential journals and our global IT function drives the innovative digital services we offer our customers.
You may think of publishing as somewhat traditional. At Springer Nature we have bold plans and our IT group is what will drive them. We need talented people in every discipline, from Business Analysts and UX Designers to Software Developers and Platform Engineers to name just a few.
The overall goal is to create a strong sense of community, to promote collaboration, knowledge sharing and best principles across disciplines, domains and locations.
What you’ll be doing:
• Leading the disciplines, and working alongside domain heads, you will facilitate collaboration between discipline and domain heads in an international set up.
• Represent and develop different disciplines: UXD, Business Analysis, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Front-End Development, Back-End Development.
• Align software development and lean agile principles across all domains
• Help scale projects of all sizes by providing the right resources and be able to manage and influence multiple stakeholders
• Support personal and career development across SN Digital disciplines.
• Mentor, coach and develop people in the department across different disciplines
• Work with discipline heads to maintain and grow the skills required to work across SN Digital
• Work on global and local strategies to support personal and career development as well as retention of people across SN digital
• Work with IT discipline heads to ensure that our people keep up to date with industry/discipline knowledge
• Work closely with other departments such as HR and facilities to ensure that our people have the tools and responsibilities to do their jobs
• Leverage the cultural diversity and at the same time encourage collaboration across locations, countries and culture to achieve our bold plans
• Closely collaborate with domain leads to ensure teams are staffed accordingly and business goals are being met.
Your Profile:
• Extensive experience in leadership and organizational management in large corporate international organizations
• Previous experience in a global matrix organization and with teams working in an agile environment
• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, able to think creatively and able to influence others in a non-authoritarian way
• Consistent track record leading teams developing business critical projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with top management
• Experience of working in an international and dynamic environment
• Experience in scaling agile teams in an international setup
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. Other language skills like German are welcome.
• Master/Bachelor’s in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
Want to learn more about who we are and how we do business? We look forward to receiving your application (in English).
Terms
Limitation: Permanent
Working Hours: Full-time
Company and Location: Berlin, Dordrecht, Pune, London or NY.