What are the responsibilities and job description for the Portfolio Manager position at Lensa?
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We believe in the power and joy of learning
At Cengage Group, our employees have a direct impact in helping students around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Our culture values inclusion, engagement, and discovery
Our business is driven by our strong culture, and we know that creating an inclusive workplace is absolutely essential to the success of our company and our learners, as well as our individual well-being. We recognize the value of diverse perspectives in everything we do, and strive to ensure employees of all levels and backgrounds feel empowered to voice their ideas and bring their authentic selves to work. We achieve these priorities through programs, benefits, and initiatives that are integrated into the fabric of how we work every day. To learn more, please see https://www.cengagegroup.com/about/inclusion-and-belonging/ .
What You’ll Do Here
The Portfolio Manager is responsible for defining and achieving the growth strategy for a specific academic subject area vertical in the higher education market. As the successful candidate, you will lead a cross-functional team including Learning Designers, Content Managers, and Marketing Partners to deliver on your strategic pipeline, including content revisions, digital online learning experiences, and new entries into your respective markets. You will be accountable for delivering commercially successful products, meeting release goals within budget and achieving annual sales forecasts. You will partner with sales and marketing to retain existing and acquire new customers by demonstrating the value proposition of your portfolio solutions.
Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.ta@cengage.com or at 1 (617) 289-7917.
About Cengage Group
Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Compensation
At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here (https://www.cengagegroup.com/news/perspectives/2024/cengage-group-total-rewards-philosophy/) to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy .
The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.
$95,000.00 - $110,000.00 USD
Cengage Group , a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms.
We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Warning: Be aware, there has been an increase of targeted recruitment scams perpetrated by bad actors falsely providing job offers on behalf Cengage Group to candidates as a means of obtaining personal information. Note that Cengage will always interview candidates via live in-person meetings, phone calls and video calls before an offer would be extended. Also, be sure to check that communication is coming from an @cengage.com email address.
If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com
We believe in the power and joy of learning
At Cengage Group, our employees have a direct impact in helping students around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Our culture values inclusion, engagement, and discovery
Our business is driven by our strong culture, and we know that creating an inclusive workplace is absolutely essential to the success of our company and our learners, as well as our individual well-being. We recognize the value of diverse perspectives in everything we do, and strive to ensure employees of all levels and backgrounds feel empowered to voice their ideas and bring their authentic selves to work. We achieve these priorities through programs, benefits, and initiatives that are integrated into the fabric of how we work every day. To learn more, please see https://www.cengagegroup.com/about/inclusion-and-belonging/ .
What You’ll Do Here
The Portfolio Manager is responsible for defining and achieving the growth strategy for a specific academic subject area vertical in the higher education market. As the successful candidate, you will lead a cross-functional team including Learning Designers, Content Managers, and Marketing Partners to deliver on your strategic pipeline, including content revisions, digital online learning experiences, and new entries into your respective markets. You will be accountable for delivering commercially successful products, meeting release goals within budget and achieving annual sales forecasts. You will partner with sales and marketing to retain existing and acquire new customers by demonstrating the value proposition of your portfolio solutions.
- Use data to make market-informed business proposals, take mitigated risks, and inform strategic decisions.
- Translate strategy into structured end-to-end development plans; define and lead all aspects of budgets, resources, performance goals, and key achievements.
- Regularly analyze product and portfolio plans to align forecasting and measurement of progress towards goals; deliver cases for strategic investment.
- Achieve plans successfully by meeting release objectives and goals.
- Demonstrate strong communication skills with keen ability to facilitate team meetings, focus groups, interviews, presentations, and trainings.
- Fully understand and track all market and industry activity that affects assigned portfolio, including any new market launches and competitor movement.
- Define, identify, size and prioritize market segments associated with the assigned portfolio.
- Establish and maintain relationships with authors and adoption decision makers to gain customer insights, strengthen customer relationships, and identify/recruit new author talent.
- Partner closely with Marketing and Sales teams to seed and secure adoptions.
- Create compelling needs-based discipline, course, and product positioning.
- Make presentations at company meetings, customer visits, and academic conferences in support of sales growth.
- BA or BS degree in a related field
- Minimum 3-5 years in product management, product development, marketing, sales or other relevant business role
- Creative and curious problem-solver and collaborator
- Understanding of the educational technology and publishing industry.
- Excellent at articulating vision and strategy
- Strong communication skills with demonstrable ability to facilitate meetings, presentations, focus groups, and customer interviews
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through influence and inspiration
- Strong financial analysis and modeling skills
- Experience using standard research methods and user testing models
- Ability to self-manage personal progress against achievements and results with a high degree of accountability
- Understands how customer needs and challenges translate into opportunities.
- Passion for improving education and delivering high quality learning experiences
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI
- Expected travel ~20%
Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.ta@cengage.com or at 1 (617) 289-7917.
About Cengage Group
Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Compensation
At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here (https://www.cengagegroup.com/news/perspectives/2024/cengage-group-total-rewards-philosophy/) to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy .
The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.
$95,000.00 - $110,000.00 USD
Cengage Group , a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms.
We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Warning: Be aware, there has been an increase of targeted recruitment scams perpetrated by bad actors falsely providing job offers on behalf Cengage Group to candidates as a means of obtaining personal information. Note that Cengage will always interview candidates via live in-person meetings, phone calls and video calls before an offer would be extended. Also, be sure to check that communication is coming from an @cengage.com email address.
If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com
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