Senior Project Manager in Oxford

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

About the Role:

The Senior Project Manager is a senior delivery role within the Delivery & Change Excellence function, responsible for leading complex, high-value projects with significant organisational impact. DCE's role is to ensure Wiley's ambitions actually land — and this role sits at the heart of that.

You will lead end-to-end delivery across strategic initiatives, working with senior stakeholders across Technology, Product, and Commercial functions. You'll operate in an environment that prizes speed, accountability, and agility — where outcomes matter more than process, and where AI-enabled ways of working are becoming the standard, not the exception.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional projects, ensuring clear business cases, realistic plans, benefits validated, and changes embedded.
• Develop and maintain project documentation including PIDs, business cases, plans, and RAID logs; manage scope, timelines, budgets, and dependencies.
• Surface risks early and make them visible — own issue resolution and escalation where required.
• Engage and manage senior stakeholders across business and technology functions, providing clear, timely communication and reporting.
• Lead project teams across Technology, Product, Content, and Commercial, providing direction, support, and performance oversight.
• Contribute to portfolio-level visibility — ensuring decision-makers have the information they need, when they need it.
• Actively adopt and champion AI-enabled tools and workflows within project delivery (including tools such as Matae and others in the DCE stack).
• Contribute to DCE's operating model, standards, and capability development — coaching colleagues and sharing what works.

Required Qualifications

• PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMP certification (or equivalent, e.g. APM PMQ).
• Extensive experience of project management experience, including delivery of complex, cross-functional projects.
• Demonstrated ability to manage senior stakeholders and navigate ambiguity in fast-moving environments.
• Strong experience managing scope, risk, budget, and dependencies across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Track record of delivering outcomes, not just managing process — able to evidence impact.
• Comfortable working in environments undergoing significant change or transformation.
• Working knowledge of project management methodologies and delivery frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in publishing, research, technology, or information services industries.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled delivery tools or an active interest in embedding AI into ways of working.
• Experience contributing to PM standards, CoEs, or capability frameworks.
• Familiarity with Clarity PPM, Jira, or similar enterprise tools.
• Experience delivering projects involving external partnerships or vendor collaboration.

We power infinite possibilities. For more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing—creating impact that reaches everywhere.

We're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives. Here, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact tasupport@wiley.com for assistance.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programming we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles either in the United Kingdom, Canada or USA. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.

Salary Range: 53,000 GBP to 75,867 GBP