Strategic Projects Manager

Description

At Grupo PROEDUCA, a leading educational group in online higher education, we are seeking to hire a **Strategic Projects Manager** with approximately 5 years of experience to lead strategic and cross-functional initiatives within the Strategic Projects team. The role combines business acumen, analytical capability, project leadership, stakeholder management, and execution orientation. You will play a key role in defining, structuring, and implementing the company’s priority projects, working closely with senior management and various functional departments. Additionally, you will be responsible for leading and developing more junior team members, ensuring analytical quality, execution rigor, and consistency in deliverables and materials. **What will you do on a day-to-day basis?** * Lead strategic workstreams end-to-end—from problem definition and alternative analysis through execution, monitoring, and implementation. * Translate senior management priorities into concrete work plans, including objectives, milestones, responsibilities, risks, dependencies, and tracking mechanisms. * Coordinate cross-functional projects across organizational departments, ensuring alignment, execution pace, and resolution of blockers. * Structure business analyses, business cases, impact models, diagnostics, and recommendations to support decision-making. * Prepare and supervise executive materials for management committees, governance bodies, and key meetings. * Drive the strategic project governance model, ensuring rigorous tracking of milestones, risks, pending decisions, dependencies, and escalations. * Lead, guide, and review the work of junior team members, helping them structure analyses, prioritize tasks, and elevate deliverable quality. * Serve as the liaison point between senior management, functional departments, and project teams—ensuring clarity, focus, and accountability. **What are we looking for?** * University degree in Engineering, Business Administration and Management (ADE), Economics, or related fields. * Approximately 5 years of experience in strategic consulting, transformation, corporate strategy, corporate development, M\&A, strategic PMO, strategic operations, or similar corporate functions. * Experience leading cross-functional projects or workstreams involving multiple stakeholders. * Strong analytical ability and skill in structuring complex business problems. * Ability to formulate actionable recommendations based on incomplete, ambiguous, or fragmented information. * Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. * Demonstrated ability to prepare clear, concise, and decision-oriented executive materials. * Solid business judgment, autonomy, rigor, and attention to detail. * Strong communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills. * Practical, solution-oriented, and execution-focused profile—with the ability to move from analysis to impact. * Capacity to mentor, review, and develop junior professionals. **What do we offer?** Permanent contract and professional development prospects within a leading, rapidly growing educational group. Flexible working hours: Monday–Thursday 9:00–18:15, Friday 9:00–14:00 (with 1 hour flexibility). Offices located in Pozuelo de Alarcón, just 3 minutes from the train station. Flexible compensation plan: private health insurance, childcare vouchers, transportation allowance, and gourmet card. Training with up to 80% discount on UNIR degree programs. 26 working days of vacation + 4 personal days + annual 16-hour time-off bank. A collaborative, dynamic environment focused on professional development. **We want to meet you!** *The EDUCATIONAL GROUP is firmly committed to equal opportunities and diversity, thereby creating an environment free from all forms of discrimination.* \#LI\-SP1