Advanced Specialist, Portfolio Management

Pearson; Washington (District of Columbia); Presencial; USD 90 000 - 130 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Pearson is seeking a commercially minded portfolio professional to own the Knowledge Suite and Pearson Live Training offerings. You’ll drive strategy, pricing, and go-to-market execution, collaborating with sales, marketing, and product teams to deliver measurable value for enterprise clients.

You will lead insights from research, define roadmaps, and ensure on-time delivery within budget while leveraging AI to enhance learning outcomes and customer value.

Qualificações

• 4+ years of experience in product/portfolio management or related commercial role in enterprise learning
• Experience contributing to revenue, pricing, or P&L outcomes
• Strong data fluency and use of evidence to drive portfolio decisions
• Experience with customer discovery and translating findings into strategy, roadmap, and GTM decisions
• Proven ability to influence enterprise sales and cross-functional partners without direct authority
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills for 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

Responsabilidades

• Own day-to-day commercial performance of Knowledge Suite and Pearson Live Training, including P&L, revenue, margin, forecasting, and budget management
• Develop commercial strategy and pricing/packaging proposals
• Plan go-to-market execution across segmentation, personas, launches, sales enablement, partners and clients
• Define learning roadmap and prioritize experiences based on measurable value
• Maintain portfolio roadmap balancing demand, commercial return, learning quality, and delivery capacity
• Collaborate with product, design, finance, and sales to align platform roadmap with customer needs and enterprise requirements
• Apply AI tools to portfolio work for prototyping, hypothesis testing, and data synthesis

Conhecimentos

Portfolio management

Revenue strategy

Pricing and packaging

Go-to-market

AI in learning

Storytelling to execs

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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
• 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
• Thinks 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.

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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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