Job Description:

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 whats possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact challenges and drives whats next to power infinite possibilities for our customers colleagues and society at large.

About the Role:

As the Vice President Program Management you enable Wileys AI & Data Analytics Business Unit (AI&DA) to move at market speed by improving visibility strengthening decision-making and maintaining delivery discipline without adding unnecessary governance.

You will report to the Chief AI & Data Analytics Officer and operate across all areas of the business both within AI&DA and across Wiley. This role requires someone who is comfortable operating without formal authority skilled at surfacing uncomfortable truths before they become crises and disciplined enough to run a rigorous delivery framework in an organization that is simultaneously forming building and a business unit targeting $500M in five years from a standing start the cost of undetected delivery risk is high. This role exists to keep that cost manageable and the certain of business success high.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads a small focused team of program and project managers

• Integrated Delivery Roadmap: Own a single cross-functional delivery roadmap (Product Engineering Data Science Commercial Shared Services) with clear owners milestones dependencies and status.

• Cross-Functional Dependency Management: Translate commercial commitments into functional dependencies align dependency owners on clear commitments and drive resolution of cross-functional dependencies as needed.

• Risk Identification & Escalation: Own and operate a live prioritized risk register (delivery capacity dependency and commercial-commitment risks) that escalates risk decisions needed and delivery progress

• Customer Commitment Visibility: Identify and track commercial-to-functional dependencies to enable faster and more reliable customer commitment timelines

• Operating Cadence Infrastructure: Sets delivery standards and cadence consistent with Wileys Delivery and Change Excellence practice. Work with Business Operations to align financial and operational planning and reporting cycles.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Engages and aligns senior stakeholders across functions without direct authority

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Enterprise Program Management: 8 years of program management experience with at least 4 years managing cross-functional delivery in a complex fast-moving technology or data organization.

• Dependency & Risk Management: Demonstrated expertise in cross-functional dependency management and commercial and delivery risk identification.

• Skilled Influencer: Proven ability to drive accountability and delivery discipline through influence credibility and the quality of the visibility you create. Trusted by senior stakeholders to tell them what they need to hear.

• Applied Judgement: Demonstrated ability to distinguish severity of business impact due to delivery risk to escalate to the appropriate c-suite senior leadership or team level and drive mitigation resolution.

• Business and Technical Fluency: Sufficient understanding of the dependency structure of a cloud-native data platform an AI/ML pipeline and a SaaS products to ask the right questions about what depends on what and to recognize when a technical risk has commercial consequences.

• Commercial Awareness: Demonstrated ability to connect delivery milestones to customer outcomes and to quantify commercial impact when dates or scope move.

• Making Order from Ambiguity: Comfortable bringing structure without needing the picture to be complete and managing interdependencies across a landscape that will evolve holding structure loosely and rebuilding it as priorities shift.

Success Metrics Year (1)

• Integrated Delivery Roadmap: A single cross-functional roadmap is operational and used within 45 days; major milestones have agreed definitions of done within 60 days.

• Dependency Coverage: Material cross-functional dependencies (including commercial-to-functional) are captured with owners and dates within 45 days and kept current.

• Risk Cadence: Delivery health and risk review cadence is established within 30 days drives decisions and is sustained throughout the year.

• Delivery Tracking: The joint tracker is continuously current and trusted by Product Technology Shared Service and the Business leaders throughout the year.

• Operating Cadence: Standing forums run within 45 days with clear purpose and documented outputs; decision and issue-resolution speed improves over the year.

We power infinite possibilities.

For more than 200 years weve transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today our global team of innovators creators and experts is driving whats next in science education and publishingcreating impact that reaches everywhere.

Were not just observers of progress. Were 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 individuals 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 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 programing 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 Wileys good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom Canada USA Austria Czechia Denmark France Greece Italy Netherlands Romania or Spain. 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.

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