Director, Strategic Projects

🕒 March 28

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $125k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧐 Strategy

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Macmillan

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

📚 Education

Media • Education

Macmillan is a leading global publishing company and home to a wide range of imprints that publish adult and children’s fiction, nonfiction, and educational materials. Part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Macmillan also operates Macmillan Learning and Macmillan Education, providing interactive course solutions, higher education content, language learning, and school curriculum publishing across dozens of countries. The company focuses on supporting authors, educators, students, and institutions with world-class content and digital learning tools.

📋 Description

• Act as program director and project manager across a portfolio of high-impact strategic initiatives. • Ensure initiatives are well-scoped, resourced, and executed to deliver tangible business value. • Partner with IT leadership, business units, and executive sponsors to ensure projects directly support organizational priorities and transformation goals. • Provide direction and coordination to cross-functional project teams. • Collaborate with executive leadership, business sponsors, and technical teams to set objectives, define outcomes, and communicate progress with clarity and transparency. • Provide concise, actionable updates to senior and executive leadership on program/project progress, key risks, and mitigation plans, ensuring timely decision-making and alignment. • Anticipate, assess, and mitigate risks to minimize disruption. • Oversee select technology-focused projects and collaborate with IT to evaluate, implement, and modernize systems and processes. • Track and report on project outcomes, efficiency gains, and operational improvements.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in project and program leadership, with proven success delivering enterprise-level initiatives that integrate technology and business strategy. • Experience working in matrixed organizations and leading cross-functional teams. • Demonstrated ability to re-engineer processes, modernize systems, and deliver measurable operational and business improvements. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a track record of influencing senior leaders and diverse stakeholders. • Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and tools (e.g., MS Project, Excel, Jira, Asana, collaboration platforms). • Publishing, media, or education industry experience. • Proven success managing or leading SAP/ERP transitions, implementation phases, or post-go-live optimizations. • Experience with digital commerce, including eCommerce systems and direct-to-consumer selling mechanics. • Experience collaborating with warehouse teams and/or warehouse management systems.