Manager, Partnership Management
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Pearson Manager leading partner success for educational assessment programs. Overseeing customer readiness, delivery, financial performance, and Partner Success teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of Partner Success professionals supporting state, district, and school partners throughout the assessment lifecycle
- Oversee partner engagement, readiness planning, training, adoption, issue resolution, and ongoing relationship management
- Ensure successful delivery of assigned programs and services while meeting cost, quality, and schedule commitments
- Build and maintain relationships with state, district, and school partners
- Lead customer readiness, implementation, training, and adoption planning
- Serve as an escalation point for complex customer concerns, risks, and delivery issues
- Monitor customer satisfaction and improve the overall customer experience
- Oversee assessment programs or strategic customer relationships
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver program commitments
- Monitor schedules, risks, issues, budgets, and milestones
- Ensure compliance with contractual requirements and delivery expectations
- Lead forecasting, planning, and business reviews
- Manage program financials, revenue, margin, budgets, and costs
- Lead, coach, and develop Partner Success professionals
- Establish goals, priorities, and performance expectations
- Provide mentoring and career development support
- Foster accountability, collaboration, customer focus, and continuous improvement
- Drive process improvements and scalable practices across the Partner Success organization
- Identify and mitigate delivery, customer, and operational risks
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5+ years of experience leading customer-facing programs, partner success, client services, program management, educational services, or assessment delivery functions
- Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams, including coaching, performance management, and talent development
- Experience managing complex customer relationships and serving as an escalation point for operational, delivery, or customer satisfaction issues
- Strong program and project management skills, including experience managing schedules, risks, dependencies, budgets, and cross-functional initiatives
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate across Product, Technology, Operations, Measurement, Content, and Customer Support teams
- Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Ability to engage customers, executive leadership, and internal stakeholders
- Ability to identify customer needs, solve complex problems, and drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Experience managing financial performance, including forecasting, budget management, contract value tracking, resource planning, or margin accountability
Benefits:
- Up to 25% travel may be required
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- E-Verify employer
- Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities
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