Portfolio Manager, English Language Learning

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Develop the product vision and strategy informed by market research and customer requirements.

• Create business cases, market positioning, and competitive analysis for the Adult & Academic portfolio tailored to global markets.

• Offer product leadership, representing the portfolio to diverse audiences.

• Manage a profitable product line and formulate strategic business plans to seize opportunities and grow in key markets.

• Cultivate relationships with decision-makers and market influencers to gain customer insights.

• Leverage customer insights to craft business proposals and make informed strategic investment choices.

• Discover and evaluate product ideas through focus groups, advisory boards, reviews, and customer interactions.

• Work alongside Product Marketing to monitor product performance throughout its life cycle and address adoption barriers, portfolio gaps, opportunities, and retention requirements.

• Sustain relationships with authors, series editors, consultants, and academic researchers.

• Collaborate with Academic/Learning Design, Content Production, Marketing, Sales, Product Technology, and other functional teams on both discipline-specific and organization-wide initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent qualification is required.

• At least 5 years of experience in product management, business development, or another relevant leadership role.

• Strong proactive problem-solving skills and the ability to establish communication channels and information sources across various interfaces and business functions.

• Experience in conducting product research and developing and implementing targeted research plans with defined objectives.

• Capability to convert customer needs and challenges into opportunities, articulating a clear product vision.

• Proficient in establishing collaborative working relationships and building credibility.

• Ability to effectively communicate vision and strategy to team members at all levels.

• Skilled in presenting persuasive proposals to a range of audiences, including senior leadership.

• Strong financial analysis and modeling abilities, along with a solid understanding of business metrics.

• Proficient in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Willingness to travel approximately 10% of the time.

• Preferred: qualification in educational research and/or data analysis.

• Preferred: fluency in one or more additional languages, with Spanish or Arabic being particularly advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to travel approximately 10% of the time.

• Reasonable accommodations provided for qualified individuals with disabilities, including during the job application process.