What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager Royalties (Contractor) position at Macmillan Learning?
Description
Macmillan is seeking a Project Manager to join our Project Management Office (PMO) team. This role will be responsible for driving end-to-end project delivery for business-critical programs involving royalties management, Bibliosuite, and enterprise-wide technology initiatives. Given the complexity of the program structure, the Project Manager will focus on bridging the gap between business and technology, ensuring accountability across workstreams, and implementing structured governance, change management, and process optimization.
This role requires a strong balance of technical expertise and business process knowledge, along with the ability to navigate conflicting priorities, improve stakeholder alignment, and ensure business readiness before go-live. The ideal candidate will have experience managing large-scale transformations where business adoption, organizational change, and clear operating models are as critical as technical implementation.
Major Responsibilities :
- Program & Project Leadership
Own the delivery of complex business and technology transformation programs, ensuring structured execution from initiation to post-go-live support.
Act as a bridge between business and IT, ensuring that business-led priorities are incorporated into technical delivery and not overshadowed by technology-driven project management.
Develop and execute a structured Change Management strategy, filling the existing gaps in user engagement, training, and communication.
Proactively manage competing priorities between Business and IT, ensuring alignment, transparency, and conflict resolution throughout the project lifecycle.
Identify and mitigate risks related to business readiness, supplier accountability, testing gaps, and change adoption before they escalate.
Required Skills & Knowledge :
8-10 years of experience in business and technology project management, preferably in publishing, media, or entertainment industries.
Experience driving business process optimization, workflow mapping, and future-state process design.
Strong ability to navigate competing business and IT priorities, ensuring balanced decision-making.
Hands-on experience with Bibliosuite (configuration, implementation, and optimization) (strongly recommended).
MP, PRINCE2, PROSCI (Change Management), SAFe Agile, or Lean Six Sigma.
This position will have an hourly rate up to $64 / hour. The successful candidate will be employed through Headway Workforce Solutions.
Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.
U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
Salary : $64
