Advanced Specialist, Portfolio Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the daily commercial performance of Knowledge Suite and Pearson Live Training, focusing on revenue, margin, forecasting, and budget management.

• Formulate commercial strategy recommendations, positioning, and differentiation for both product offerings.

• Collaborate with finance and sales teams to create pricing and packaging proposals.

• Implement go-to-market initiatives, including segmentation, buyer personas, launch plans, sales enablement, and partner/client positioning.

• Oversee the learning roadmap, prioritizing learning experiences based on empirical evidence.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure that offerings are launched on schedule, within budget, and meet enterprise quality standards.

• Generate insights into enterprise transformation, career mobility, technology skilling, and AI-enabled transformation through research and customer discovery.

• Conduct competitor analysis and evaluate adjacent offerings.

• Define vision and strategy, including responsible AI applications aimed at enhancing learning outcomes and customer value.

• Establish effective learning and performance expectations for employees.

• Set requirements and success metrics in collaboration with Evidence & Design, learning designers, and psychometricians.

• Align platform product roadmaps with portfolio priorities and the needs of enterprise customers.

• Utilize outcomes data and learner performance metrics to enhance, invest in, evolve, or phase out learning initiatives.

• Employ AI tools for prototyping, hypothesis testing, and synthesizing customer and market insights.

• Create pricing, packaging, and business cases for finance and executive evaluation.

• Collaborate with marketing on positioning, messaging, and campaign development.

• Provide sales and solution teams with pitch narratives, demos, ROI stories, value propositions, and client-ready materials.

• Collect feedback from enterprise clients and field teams to inform strategy and roadmap decisions.

• Coordinate efforts among sales, solutioning, marketing, delivery, finance, technology, and operations within a matrixed environment.

• Contribute to ECT planning cycles, portfolio reviews, and leadership forums.

• Develop a clear perspective and portfolio roadmap for leadership review within the first six months.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in product management, portfolio management, or a similar commercial role.

• Preferably experience in enterprise learning, L&D, HR technology, or B2B learning and subscription services.

• Experience in managing revenue, pricing, or P&L outcomes.

• Proven track record of supporting an offering from initial insights through launch to growth.

• Strong data fluency with the capability to use evidence for portfolio and investment recommendations.

• Experience in conducting customer discovery and translating insights into strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market plans.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with enterprise sales teams and influence various functions without direct authority.

• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills.

• Confidence in engaging with senior enterprise buyers.

• Knowledge of enterprise change management, career mobility, technology skilling, AI-enabled transformation, or workforce development.

• Experience in learning design, assessment, or competency frameworks.

• Familiarity with live or cohort-based and digital learning delivery methods.

• Proficiency in using AI tools to expedite portfolio work.

• A keen interest in the impact of AI on enterprise learning, skills development, and career success.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual incentive program.

• Benefits provided by Pearson (specific benefits are referenced via a link but not detailed in the posting).