Portfolio Manager, English Language Learning
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Portfolio Manager defining strategy for English language learning products at Cengage, a global education technology company. Researching markets, shaping proposals, and leading portfolio growth initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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