Project Manager, Business Systems & Technology Analysis

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The Project Manager will manage cross-functional projects from initiation through to closure, ensuring delivery within agreed scope, timelines, and budgets.

This is an opportunity for a project management professional who enjoys bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to complex work. You will support Frontiers’ strategic priorities by coordinating projects across departments, maintaining robust project documentation, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring clear visibility of progress and decisions.

You’ll work closely with stakeholders across Product, Editorial, Technology, Marketing, Operations, project sponsors, and OKR owners to define project goals, requirements, deliverables, and success measures. You will support consistent and effective project delivery by applying agreed project management practices, using appropriate tools and templates, and providing regular, high-quality project updates and reporting to support visibility, alignment, and decision-making.

Beyond day-to-day project delivery, you will help ensure projects are well documented, visible, and kept up to date through clear project records, regular updates, and structured reporting. You will support effective stakeholder engagement by organizing and facilitating workshops, governance sessions, and project meetings, helping to capture decisions, actions, risks, dependencies, and next steps. This role would suit someone who is organized, proactive, confident in stakeholder communication, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• 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 when needed 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 and operational rhythms.
• Support audit and review processes by maintaining accurate and up-to-date project records and documentation.
• Contribute to OKR planning and delivery tracking for assigned projects.
• Participate in post-project reviews, capture lessons learned and…