: Senior Project Manager

Company: QBS Learning

Location: Noida, Sector 3

Work Mode: Work from Office; work-from-home arrangements will be discussed

Shift: UK Shift

Experience: 8+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Preferred Certification: PMP

About QBS Learning

QBS Learning is a global education solutions partner with over 35 years of experience supporting educational publishers, EdTech companies, and learning organisations. We specialise in K-12 curriculum and content development, educational publishing, digital learning solutions, accessibility, and technology-enabled content production.

Role Overview

We are looking for a senior, experienced Project Manager with a strong background in K-12 EdTech, educational publishing, ELT (English Language Teaching), or digital learning content production.

The ideal candidate must have proven experience managing complex projects, including POC (Proof of Concept) projects, with multiple stakeholders, long production schedules, and strict quality and delivery requirements.

The candidate will establish project management processes at project kick-off and ensure they are followed throughout the project lifecycle. This includes maintaining centralised documentation of project plans, design decisions, client comments, feedback, revisions, approvals, risks, and status updates to ensure transparency, accountability, and smooth project execution.

Experience managing large-scale ELT programmes or similar educational content projects will be highly valued.

Key Responsibilities

- End-to-End Project Management:
- Lead projects from initiation and kick-off through planning, execution, quality review, delivery, and closure.
- Define project scope, objectives, milestones, timelines, deliverables, resource requirements, and dependencies.
- Develop project plans and establish clear workflows, review cycles, approval processes, and communication protocols.
- Manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously, ensuring delivery within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Identify risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies proactively and implement mitigation plans.

- POC (Proof of Concept) Project Management:

- Manage POC projects from initial requirements and planning through execution, evaluation, client review, and final recommendations.
- Define POC objectives, scope, timelines, deliverables, success criteria, and evaluation metrics.
- Coordinate with clients and cross-functional teams to develop and validate sample content, workflows, features, or solutions.




- Track progress, dependencies, risks, issues, and feedback throughout the POC lifecycle.
- Maintain centralised documentation of requirements, design decisions, client comments, revisions, testing outcomes, and approvals.
- Evaluate POC results against agreed success criteria and present findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Coordinate the transition from an approved POC to full-scale implementation or production, where applicable.

- Project Governance & Documentation

- Establish project governance, documentation standards, and communication protocols at project kick-off.
- Ensure agreed processes are consistently followed by internal teams, clients, vendors, and external stakeholders.
- Maintain centralised records of project plans, design decisions, feedback, change requests, revisions, approvals, and action items.
- Ensure all decisions and updates are documented, traceable, and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
- Maintain version control, decision logs, issue trackers, risk registers, and change-control documentation.
- Use Smartsheet for project planning, tracking, dashboards, reporting, and workflow management.

- K-12 Educational Publishing & ELT Projects

- Manage complex educational content and publishing programmes involving multiple grade levels, content components, deliverables, and long production schedules.
- Coordinate editorial, curriculum, instructional design, content development, design, production, technology, and quality assurance teams.
- Monitor content development, design reviews, feedback incorporation, revisions, approvals, and final production.
- Ensure consistency across project levels, content formats, and deliverables while maintaining quality and curriculum alignment.
- Manage client feedback and design decisions systematically to minimise rework and conflicting instructions.

- Client & Stakeholder Management

- Act as the primary point of contact for clients and key stakeholders.
- Lead kick-off meetings, POC reviews, project progress meetings, and delivery discussions.
- Translate client requirements into actionable project plans and measurable milestones.




- Communicate progress, risks, delays, dependencies, and corrective actions proactively.
- Manage expectations, resolve escalations, and ensure timely decisions and approvals.
- Build robust relationships with international clients, particularly those operating in the UK and other global markets.

- Resource Management & Continuous Improvement

- Coordinate internal teams, vendors, and production partners to ensure effective resource utilisation.
- Track team capacity, workloads, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
- Facilitate collaboration between editorial, content, design, production, QA, and technology teams.
- Prepare dashboards, status reports, milestone trackers, risk reports, and management updates.
- Monitor project performance against scope, timelines, budgets, quality standards, and KPIs.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, reduce rework, and enhance project efficiency.

Required Skills & Qualifications
- 8+ years of project management experience, preferably in K-12 EdTech, educational publishing, ELT, e-learning, or digital content production.
- Mandatory hands-on experience managing POC (Proof of Concept) projects, preferably within EdTech, educational publishing, digital learning, or technology-enabled content solutions.
- Proven ability to define POC scope, objectives, timelines, deliverables, success criteria, and evaluation metrics.
- Experience coordinating POC execution, client feedback, testing, documentation, stakeholder reviews, and outcome presentations.
- Strong expertise in project planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, risk management, change control, and delivery governance.
- Hands-on experience with Smartsheet for project planning, tracking, dashboards, reporting, and workflow management.
- Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects with multiple deliverables and long production schedules.
- Strong understanding of educational publishing, K-12 content production, or ELT workflows.
- Experience maintaining decision logs, feedback trackers, change requests, approval records, and version histories.
- Excellent client communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
- Ability to establish processes at kick-off and ensure compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Willingness to work the UK shift and attend the Noida Sector 3 office, with any work-from-home arrangement to be discussed.

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