Advanced Specialist, Portfolio Management

Pearson; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Pearson seeks a commercially minded Portfolio Manager to own the performance and direction of Knowledge Suite and Pearson Live Training within Enterprise Content and Training. You will shape pricing, packaging, and go-to-market decisions while coordinating cross-functional teams for successful launches.

You will lead portfolio strategy, leverage data to justify investments, and partner with sales, marketing, and solutioning to deliver measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in product or portfolio management in enterprise learning or B2B subscription offerings
• Experience influencing revenue, pricing, or P&L from insight through launch
• Strong data fluency to support portfolio and investment decisions
• Proven ability to work with enterprise sales and cross-functional teams across functions

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day commercial performance and P&L for Knowledge Suite and Pearson Live Training
• Propose pricing, packaging, and GTM strategies aligned with leadership
• Develop and maintain the portfolio roadmap and define success metrics
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure on-time, on-budget launches
• Apply AI tools to portfolio work to enhance outcomes

Skills

Commercial mindset

Portfolio management

Strategic thinking

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Data fluency

Customer discovery

Executive engagement

Job description

The Role

If you are energized by building learning products that help organizations grow, adapt, and prove real business impact, this role offers the chance to shape two of Pearson's enterprise learning offerings at an important point in their evolution. As Portfolio Manager for Knowledge Suite and Pearson Live Training, you will help position these products at the center of enterprise transformation, with a core focus on career success, technology skilling, and AI-enabled transformation. You will be the commercial owner of these offerings within the wider Enterprise Content and Training portfolio, shaping why they win in market, which learning experiences are prioritized, developed, and brought to market, and how pricing, P&L, and go-to-market decisions support sustainable growth.

You will partner closely with Pearson's marketing, sales, and solutioning teams, so these offerings show up clearly and compellingly for enterprise partners and clients. You will connect market needs to what Pearson builds and sells, working with the Team Lead, Portfolio Management, and ECT leadership, to set overall direction and make final decisions on strategy, investment, and pricing.

In your first six months, you will build a grounded view of enterprise transformation, career mobility, technology skilling, and AI-enabled transformation, then translate that insight into a clear point of view and portfolio roadmap for leadership review and business alignment.

What You'll Own

• The day-to-day commercial performance of Knowledge Suite and Pearson Live Training, including accountability for their P&L: revenue, margin, forecasting, and budget management, within ECT's overall plan

• Commercial strategy recommendations for both offerings, including the positioning and differentiation that explain why each wins against its competitors

• Pricing and packaging proposals, developed with finance and sales and aligned with ECT leadership

• Go-to-market execution: segmentation, buyer personas, launch plans, sales enablement, and partner and client positioning

• The learning roadmap for both environments, including the evidence-based case for which learning experiences are prioritized, developed, and brought to market

• Cross-functional coordination, so offerings launch on time, on budget, and to a quality bar that enterprise clients trust

What You'll Do

Discovery and strategy

• Build current insight into enterprise transformation, career success, technology skilling, and AI-enabled transformation, using research and customer discovery to identify high-value opportunities

• Analyze competitors and adjacent offerings to sharpen differentiation and strengthen Pearson's market position

• Develop and propose the vision and strategy for both offerings, including how AI can strengthen learning outcomes, customer value, and market differentiation, then help sales, delivery, and partner teams understand the agreed direction

• Define what effective learning should look like for employees, helping learners and organizations understand what great performance looks like in their roles

Roadmap and portfolio

• Build and maintain the portfolio roadmap, balancing client demand, commercial return, learning quality, and delivery capacity while recommending priorities for leadership review

• Define requirements and success metrics, and work with Evidence & Design, including learning designers and psychometricians, to ensure the offerings are evidence-based and delivering measurable value for customers and learners

• Partner with product management and technical teams to align the platform product roadmap with portfolio priorities, learner experience needs, and enterprise customer requirements

• Use outcomes data and learner performance to improve the portfolio and recommend when to invest, evolve, or retire learning

• Apply AI tools in your own portfolio work, such as prototyping, hypothesis testing, and synthesizing customer and market data, while identifying where AI can responsibly enhance enterprise learning experiences

Commercial and go-to-market

• Develop pricing, packaging, and business cases that are commercially sound and ready for finance and executive review

• Partner with marketing to develop positioning, messaging, and campaigns that land with HR, L&D, and business leaders

• Equip sales and solutioning teams with pitch narratives, demos, ROI stories, value messages, and client-ready materials, supporting key client conversations alongside senior colleagues

• Gather feedback from enterprise clients and field teams, then turn it into actionable input for strategy and roadmap decisions

Collaboration

• Coordinate across ELS functions, including sales, solutioning, marketing, delivery, finance, technology, and operations, to build trust and support clear decision-making in a matrixed environment

• Contribute the perspective of these two offerings to ECT planning cycles, portfolio reviews, and leadership forums

About You

You are a commercially minded portfolio professional who is comfortable connecting market insight, financial performance, and learning quality. You bring:

• 4+ years of experience in product management, portfolio management, or a related commercial role, ideally in enterprise learning, L&D, HR technology, or B2B learning and subscription offerings

• Experience contributing to or managing revenue, pricing, or P&L outcomes, and supporting an offering from insight through launch to growth

• Strong data fluency, with the ability to use evidence to make clear portfolio and investment recommendations

• Experience running customer discovery and translating findings into strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market decisions

• Proven ability to work with enterprise sales teams and influence across functions without direct authority

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the confidence to engage senior enterprise buyers

Knowledge of enterprise change management, career mobility, technology skilling, AI-enabled transformation, or workforce development

• Experience with learning design, assessment, or competency frameworks

• Experience with live or cohort-based and digital learning delivery

• Fluency using AI tools to accelerate portfolio work, plus curiosity about how AI is transforming enterprise learning, skills development, and career success

You are someone who:

• Puts customers and learners at the center of decisions

• Think strategically and stays practical about execution

• Takes ownership of results and moves quickly when direction is clear

• Brings a point of view, and is open to challenge and collaboration on the way to a decision

• Builds trust with sellers, designers, and executives alike

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:

The minimum full-time salary range is between $90,000 to $130,000.

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.

Applications will be accepted through October 23, 2026.

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

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