Project manager and roadmap coordinator
11 days ago
Barcelona
Job Title: Junior Project Manager / Coordinator Se anima a todos los posibles solicitantes a que se desplacen y lean la descripción completa del puesto antes de presentar su candidatura. Location: Barcelona or Madrid, Tres Cantos Employment Type: Full-time Work Model: Remote work setup with occasional visits to the office (2–3 times per year) Contract Type: Permanent contract of employment About the Role As a Junior Project Manager / Coordinator you will support the Platform team in planning, coordinating, and tracking technical initiatives by maintaining roadmaps, enabling structured execution, and facilitating alignment across engineering and business stakeholders. The role bridges strategy and delivery, ensuring transparency, progress tracking, and effective collaboration in a technical landscape. It facilitates execution and alignment but does not replace product ownership, architecture ownership, or engineering leadership. Key Responsibilities Roadmap & Delivery Tracking • Maintain and continuously update the platform roadmap in close collaboration with engineering and product leads, • Track progress across technical initiatives (e.g. platform improvements, integrations, migrations), • Monitor dependencies, risks, and blockers across teams, ensuring timely escalation and resolution, • Translate technical progress into clear, structured updates for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, • Own and prepare recurring reporting (e.g. status decks, sprint/initiative summaries), • Support high‑level visibility on capacity, sequencing, and major trade‑offs across platform initiatives to support prioritization discussions Technical Governance & Cadence Management • Set up and manage key delivery cadences (e.g. sprint syncs, platform reviews, steering meetings), • Prepare structured agendas, pre‑reads, and supporting materials, • Facilitate meetings, ensuring alignment on priorities, trade‑offs, and next steps, • Capture and track decisions, actions, and technical follow‑ups, • Support domain‑related governance forums by tracking decisions and ensuring follow‑through into delivery Cross‑Team Coordination • Act as a coordination layer between platform, product, and business teams, • Ensure alignment on priorities, sequencing, and delivery timelines across multiple workstreams, • Support communication of platform changes, releases, and impacts to stakeholders, • Help enforce ways of working and best practices in planning and tracking Ownership of Smaller Technical Initiatives • Independently manage smaller platform‑related projects (e.g. tooling improvements, process optimizations, minor integrations), • Define scope, milestones, and delivery plans in collaboration with engineers, • Drive execution, track progress, and ensure timely delivery, • Proactively identify risks and propose mitigation actions Required Skills & Qualifications Profile & Experience • 2–3 years of experience in a top‑tier consulting firm (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or similar environment with exposure to technology or digital topics, • Strong understanding of how software/platform teams operate (e.g., Agile, sprints, backlogs, releases), • Ability to translate technical topics into structured, clear communication, • Advanced PowerPoint and strong written communication skills, • Experience working with cross‑functional teams (engineering, product, business), • Highly structured, proactive, and comfortable operating in complex, evolving environments, • English proficiency: B2/C1 (both written and spoken communication) xcskxlj, • Spanish proficiency: C1/C2 (both written and spoken communication) Key Competencies • Structured problem solving and systems thinking, • Strong stakeholder management across technical and non‑technical audiences, • Planning, tracking, and coordination in a technical delivery context, • Facilitation of technical discussions and decision‑making forums, • Ownership and drive with attention to detail Personal Attributes • Structured and methodical approach to work, • Proactive and positive “can‑do” attitude, demonstrating initiative and resilience, • Strong organizational skills, adept at managing multiple tasks and stakeholders simultaneously, • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and operating in complex, evolving technical environments, • Passionate about technology and platform‑driven transformation Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensuring equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics. #J-18808-Ljbffr