Project Manager

📍 Location: Warsaw, Poland (Remote with occasional visits to the office)

🕒 Type: Full-time

📄 Contract Type: B2B (requires you to have your own registered company in Poland)

Sanoma Learning is the leading European learning company, serving over 20 million students in 11 countries. We offer printed and digital learning materials as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary, and vocational education. The development of our methodologies is based on deep teacher and student insight and really understanding their needs. By combining our educational technologies and pedagogical expertise, we create learning products and services with the highest learning impact. In our Technology organization, you will join the largest cross-cultural community of Sanoma Learning and contribute to the digital transformation and future of education in Europe.

Work setup 🌍

We offer a remote work model with occasional visits to the office for team events, training, and business trips - typically once per quarter. Business travel and its frequency: few times per year.

Project description 📝

You will work closely with and support our ERP program, as well as collaborate with other IT teams. In this role, you will work alongside Product Owners, Business Analysts, developers, suppliers, and inspiring business stakeholders. You will report directly to the Project Owner.

About The Role

We are currently looking for a hands-on Senior Project Manager with strong technical understanding of domain-related solutions, as well as confidence in project management and the timely delivery of development projects. The purpose of this role is to lead multiple international projects. The selected candidate should bring experience in service management, software architecture, cloud services, and API management.

Supplier management should be within your comfort zone, and you should be willing to take a hands-on approach when needed, for example in defining and testing project deliverables.

In this role, you will create project plans, organize resources, help define project scope, and ensure appropriate reporting for Sanoma’s ongoing and future initiatives. You will also support the Product Owner and Business Analyst in delivering projects on time.

Main Responsibilities

• Participate in projects by providing leadership, solution-oriented thinking, and structure for both internal and external teams.
• Bridge the gap between the platform team and various operating companies regarding end-to-end application development, operations, and maintenance.
• Lead supplier activities in line with contractual agreements.
• Coordinate troubleshooting, support, and service activities.
• Maintain relationships with technology, software, and security vendors.
• Manage relationships with business stakeholders.
• Stay up to date with current and upcoming compliance requirements, regulations, services, and developments within the area.

✅ 5+ years of experience in Software Development Projects.

✅ 5+ years of experience in Project Management.

✅ Minimum 3 years of experience as a Service Manager or in a comparable role.

✅ Experience managing multiple international projects simultaneously.

✅ Experience working with distributed application development teams in large international organizations.

✅ Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and ability to understand end-to-end processes.

✅ English proficiency: C1/C2 (both written and spoken communication).

Attitude & General Skills

✅ Strong communicator and team player with experience in Agile ways of working and Scrum.

✅ Ability to act as a trusted sparring partner for the Product Owner, process experts, and key users.

✅ Results-driven mindset with strong problem-solving skills.

✅ Ability to work effectively both independently and within a team.

✅ Detail-oriented, proactive, and self-driven approach.

✅ Flexible and adaptable in changing environments and priorities.

✅ Strong multitasking and prioritization skills while maintaining good stakeholder relationships.

✅ Ability to make decisions and take ownership of actions.

✅ Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as strong time management.

✅ Comfortable working under pressure and navigating uncertainty in a demanding environment.

Nice-to-have Requirements

💠Knowledge about eCommerce and/or SAP area

💠Finnish language (written and spoken on communicative level)

What We Offer

As an employer, Sanoma offers a working environment where you are able and encouraged to show your best self. The working environment is result-oriented as well as flexible with a focus on collaboration. We offer you a key position with interesting and challenging tasks and excellent opportunities for professional growth. You will be part of a highly professional and experienced international team in an open and informal setting, where initiative is expected and rewarded.