Associate Portfolio Manager

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🔥 12 hours ago

🏈 Ohio – Remote

🏈 Ohio – Remote

💵 $58.3k - $75.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👔 Manager

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Cengage Group

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5001 - 10000 employees

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

💰 Private Equity Round on 2023-06

Education • eCommerce • SaaS

Cengage Group is a global education technology company dedicated to enhancing learning experiences. With over 100 years of service, Cengage provides affordable and high-quality digital products and services that help learners become job-ready. Their offerings support various educational goals, including reskilling, upskilling, degree attainment, and language learning, ensuring access to quality education for individuals of all backgrounds and abilities.

📋 Description

• Lead a profitable product line and develop strategic business plans • Provide product leadership, representing the portfolio and customers across audiences • Use data to make market-informed business proposals, take mitigated risks, and guide strategic decisions • Defines long-term goals based on research and trends, and sets metrics-driven milestones, making connections across datasets and courses to devise solutions to complex business challenges • Balance experience, market knowledge, and insights to make impactful decisions and long-term plans • Translate priorities into organized end-to-end development plans with budgets, resources, performance goals, and key checkpoints • Provide project team direction, facilitating effective communication, and ensuring timely delivery of multiple products simultaneously within scope and budget • Cultivate an environment of creativity and collaboration • Deliver quality learning experiences to students and instructors • Establish and maintain relationships with key authors and adoption decision makers to gain customer insights, strengthen adoptions, and identify new talent • Develop a deep understanding of competitors and an ability to anticipate competitor activity • Identify and test product ideas within segments, including the administration of focus groups, advisory boards, reviews, and customer meetings as appropriate • Regularly analyze product and portfolio plans to align forecasting and measurement of progress towards goals • Partner closely with Marketing and Sales teams to seed and secure adoptions • Work closely with colleagues in other functional areas (Learning Design, Content Production, Marketing, Sales, Technology, etc.) on discipline-specific initiatives • Create compelling needs-based discipline, course, and product positioning and customer segments as inputs for campaign and sales enablement efforts • Make presentations at internal and external meetings, campus visits, and academic conventions in support of sales efforts and to drive sales.

🎯 Requirements

• BA or BS Degree • Minimum 2 years in product management, product development, or other relevant portfolio management role • Cross-functional team leadership experience • Ability to inspire change through influence; honed social skills • Self-discipline with a high degree of accountability • Strong financial analysis and modeling skills and an understanding of business metrics • Natural curiosity and willingness to learn paired with a desire for continuous improvement • Confirmed written and verbal abilities enabling the preparation and presentation of information and recommendations to a diverse and senior level audience • Proficiency with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Expected travel ~10% of time

🏖️ Benefits

• Participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program • Comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package