Portfolio Manager, English Language Learning

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Cengage Group

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Define product vision and strategy based on market research and customer needs • Establish business cases, market positioning, and competitive benchmarking for the Adult & Academic portfolio • Provide product leadership across audiences • Lead a profitable product line and develop strategic business plans for growth markets • Build relationships with adoption decision makers and market influencers to gather customer insights • Use customer insights to develop business proposals and make strategic investment decisions • Identify and test product ideas through focus groups, advisory boards, reviews, and customer meetings • Collaborate with Product Marketing to track product performance across the product life cycle • Identify and act on adoption blockers, portfolio gaps, new opportunities, and retention needs • Maintain relationships with authors, series editors, consultants, and academic researchers • Collaborate with Academic/Learning Design, Content Production, Marketing, Sales, Product Technology, and other functional teams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent qualification • Minimum 5 years in product management, business development, or another relevant management role • Proactive problem-solving and communication across multiple interfaces and business functions • Experience conducting product research • Ability to build and implement focused research plans with clear goals and appropriate methods • Ability to translate customer needs and challenges into product opportunities • Ability to articulate product vision and strategy • Ability to establish collaborative working relationships and build credibility • Ability to present compelling proposals to diverse audiences, including senior leadership • Strong financial analysis and modelling skills • Understanding of business metrics • Proficiency with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time • Preferred: qualification in educational research and/or data analysis • Preferred: proficiency in an additional language; Spanish or Arabic particularly desirable