Job Title: Junior Project Manager / Coordinator
Location: Barcelona or Madrid, Tres Cantos
Type: Full-time
Work model: remote work setup with occasional visits to the office (2-3 times per year)
Type of contract: permanent contract of employment
📌 About the Role
As a Junior Project Manager / Coordinator you will support the Platform team in planning, coordinating, and tracking technical initiatives by maintaining roadmaps, enabling structured execution, and facilitating alignment across engineering and business stakeholders. The role bridges strategy and delivery, ensuring transparency, progress tracking, and effective collaboration in a technical landscape. It facilitates execution and alignment but does not replace product ownership, architecture ownership, or engineering leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Roadmap & Delivery Tracking
Maintain and continuously update the platform roadmap in close collaboration with engineering and product leads
Track progress across technical initiatives (e.g. platform improvements, integrations, migrations)
Monitor dependencies, risks, and blockers across teams, ensuring timely escalation and resolution
Translate technical progress into clear, structured updates for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Own and prepare recurring reporting (e.g. status decks, sprint/initiative summaries)
Support high-level visibility on capacity, sequencing, and major trade-offs across platform initiatives to support prioritization discussions
Technical Governance & Cadence Management
Set up and manage key delivery cadences (e.g. sprint syncs, platform reviews, steering meetings)
Prepare structured agendas, pre-reads, and supporting materials
Facilitate meetings, ensuring alignment on priorities, trade-offs, and next steps
Capture and track decisions, actions, and technical follow-ups
Support domain-related governance forums by tracking decisions and ensuring follow-through into delivery
Cross-Team Coordination
Act as a coordination layer between platform, product, and business teams
Ensure alignment on priorities, sequencing, and delivery timelines across multiple workstreams
Support communication of platform changes, releases, and impacts to stakeholders
Help enforce ways of working and best practices in planning and tracking
Ownership of Smaller Technical Initiatives
Independently manage smaller platform-related projects (e.g. tooling improvements, process optimizations, minor integrations)
Define scope, milestones, and delivery plans in collaboration with engineers
Drive execution, track progress, and ensure timely delivery
Proactively identify risks and propose mitigation actions
Required Skills & Qualifications
Profile & Experience
✅ 2–3 years of experience in a top-tier consulting firm (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or similar environment with exposure to technology or digital topics
✅Strong understanding of how software/platform teams operate (e.g., Agile, sprints, backlogs, releases)
✅Ability to translate technical topics into structured, clear communication
✅Advanced PowerPoint and strong written communication skills
✅Experience working with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, business)
✅Highly structured, proactive, and comfortable operating in complex, evolving environments
✅English proficiency: B2/C1 (both written and spoken communication).
✅Spanish proficiency: C1/C2 (both written and spoken communication).
Key Competencies
✅Structured problem solving and systems thinking
✅ Strong stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences
✅ Planning, tracking, and coordination in a technical delivery context
✅ Facilitation of technical discussions and decision-making forums
✅ Ownership and drive with attention to detail
Personal Attributes:
✅Structured and methodical approach to work
✅Proactive and positive “can-do” attitude, demonstrating initiative and resilience
✅Strong organizational skills, adept at managing multiple tasks and stakeholders simultaneously
✅Comfortable navigating ambiguity and operating in complex, evolving technical environments
✅Passionate about technology and platform-driven transformation
❤️About us:
At Sanoma Learning, we all share a deep-rooted passion for education and are committed to support teachers to help all students to reach their potential, so they can be at their best in class.
We are proud of the impact we make together across Europe, local as well as international. As our teams and the scope of our impact grows, so do the opportunities for us to learn from each other – across country borders and areas of expertise. With over 3.000 colleagues, we work on seamlessly integrated print, digital and blended learning solutions to help teachers and schools develop the talents of every child. Our people are passionate and committed and always willing to go the extra mile for students, teachers, schools, our shareholders and each other.
As our platform landscape evolves and scales, strong coordination and structured execution become critical. We are looking for someone who can bridge strategy and delivery, ensuring our platform initiatives are well-planned, transparently tracked, and effectively communicated across teams.
About Sanoma Learning
How do you prepare students for the world, engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning, it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us, it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary, secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company.
Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company, operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content, as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 3000 employees, we help shape the future of education for 25+ million of students.
So, are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential?
Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics.
