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Principal Project Manager translating executive priorities into measurable transformation programmes at Pearson, a global learning company. Driving governance, change adoption, integrations, and AI tooling across geographies.
Responsibilities:
- Own the enterprise transformation roadmap, converting competing and ambiguous leadership priorities into 30-, 60-, and 100-day plans with named owners, milestones, dependencies, and explicit tradeoffs
- Establish governance with defined business problems, measured baselines, accountable owners, required decisions, risk escalation paths, and transitions into business-as-usual
- Define business value and report delivery against cost savings, protected revenue, created capacity, delivery speed, service quality, adoption, and risk reduction
- Lead cross-functional initiatives and recovery planning for programmes that are stuck, at risk, or not producing intended outcomes
- Prepare options, tradeoffs, and recommendations for executive audiences and facilitate working sessions that turn decisions into committed action
- Lead modernisation of operating models, ways of working, and tooling across geographies, including communications and enablement
- Support integrations and organisational change through Day 1/30/100, including governance, process alignment, SOPs, reporting, and handover
- Drive adoption of internal AI governance tooling and measure usage, compliance, time saved, exception rates, and practitioner feedback
Requirements:
- Significant experience leading enterprise transformation, strategic operations, or change management programmes in a large, multi-geography organisation
- Proven track record turning nebulous executive priorities into sequenced delivery plans with measurable business outcomes
- Demonstrated experience establishing governance for cross-functional portfolios and transitioning initiatives into steady-state operations
- Experience supporting post-merger integration or comparable Day 1/30/100 organisational change
- Strong background in business strategy, process improvement, and stakeholder alignment at executive level
- Exposure to AI-enabled ways of working and their governance is an advantage
- Experienced in Business Transformation
- Experienced in Change Management
- Experienced in Programme and Portfolio Governance
- Effective in Strategic Planning
- Effective in Operating Model Design
- Experienced in Stakeholder Engagement
- Experienced in Executive Communication
- Experienced in Business Acumen
- Effective in Data-Driven Decision Making
- Effective in Collaboration
- Effective in Technical Acumen
- Adaptability, Learning to Learn, Artificial Intelligence (Pearson Power Skills)
Benefits:
- Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
- Benefits information available via the employer's benefits resource
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