Senior Director, Portfolio Management

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🏈 Ohio – Remote

🏈 Ohio – Remote

💵 $163.1k - $212k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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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

• Develop and lead portfolio strategy and performance: Create and refine a clear, insightful portfolio strategy that matches corporate priorities. • Be responsible for meeting growth, revenue, and profitability goals while ensuring offerings deliver unique and meaningful value to customers. • Lead a hypothesis-driven, evidence-based product approach: Guide teams in developing and testing strategic hypotheses using customer insights, market data, and rapid validation techniques to inform investment decisions and continuously refine direction. • Drive end-to-end portfolio lifecycle decisions: Oversee decisions from concept through launch and iteration, balancing speed, quality, customer impact, and business outcomes across multiple product lines and markets. • Act as an enterprise integrator: Align cross-functional teams—including Product, Academic Design, Operations, Finance, and Go-To-Market—around shared priorities, resolving tradeoffs and ensuring execution against a unified strategy. • Build and develop a high-performing leadership team: Coach and elevate Portfolio Directors and Managers, strengthening critical thinking, decision-making rigor, and accountability across the organization. • Own and evolve Portfolio Operations as a strategic capability: Ensure that product, financial, and licensing infrastructure—including royalties, product setup, and system workflows—scales effectively to support portfolio growth, compliance, and operational excellence.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred • 12–15+ years of experience in product management, portfolio management, strategy, or related leadership roles • 10+ years of leadership experience including leading people managers • Strong product leadership capabilities, including building and developing high-performing teams • Experience influencing and aligning cross-functional stakeholders • Exceptional ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritize across competing demands, and drive organizational alignment • Strong financial skills, including business case development and performance analysis • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior audiences • Willingness to travel up to 20%.

🏖️ Benefits

• Cengage is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. • Our job applicants are considered regardless any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws. • Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process.