Lead Specialist, Delivery Partner

Pearson

Columbia (SC)

Hybrid

USD 110,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading education company in Columbia, South Carolina is seeking a Lead Specialist, Delivery Partner to manage strategic customer accounts and ensure delivery excellence. This role involves leading multiple active contracts while fostering strong customer and internal relationships. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in delivery execution, excellent stakeholder management skills, and relevant certifications. This position provides a competitive salary in the range of $110,000 to $120,000 and participation in an incentive program.

Qualifications

Proven experience in delivery execution and portfolio management.
Demonstrated ability to build consensus in high-pressure environments.
Exceptional stakeholder management and executive relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

Own and manage delivery for strategic accounts.
Lead all active contracts across the customer’s enterprise portfolio.
Forge strong relationships with customers and internal teams.

Skills

Delivery execution

Stakeholder management

Change management

Team leadership

Commercial acumen

Education

PMP or Prince2 certification

Job description

Driving the successful delivery of Skilling Solutions for Enterprise Customers

We are establishing a new Enterprise Delivery function that will be accountable for the customer’s entire enterprise delivery portfolio, providing a comprehensive 360‑degree view across new enterprise deals, solution deployment, and the ongoing success of active contracts. This role ensures seamless engagement with the customer from contract signing through completion, managing escalations, and driving revenue growth while delivering a best‑in‑class customer experience and creating exceptional value across all Pearson business units.

The Lead Specialist, Delivery Partner will govern and manage up to four strategic customer accounts, aligning delivery activities with each customer’s evolving learning and skilling goals. By fostering innovation, operational excellence, and strong customer relationships, this function will consistently deliver outstanding value, accelerate success, and strengthen Pearson’s position as a trusted enterprise partner. Success will depend on collaboration with Enterprise Client Partners (sales) and close working relationships with customers to cultivate and maintain trust‑based relationships that enable growth and expansion of the account. The role also requires building virtual delivery teams across Pearson, working across organizational lines and collaborating with all aspects of delivery teams.

This is a rare opportunity to be involved in the early phases of a new team to support its creation.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Leadership: Own and manage delivery for strategic accounts, ensuring delivery excellence.
Delivery planning: Contribute to customer solutions and Statements of Work to ensure feasible delivery and maximum value for customers.
Customer Delivery: Lead all active contracts across the customer’s enterprise portfolio with a comprehensive, 360‑degree view of progress, value, and risk. Route escalations to leaders for review and resolution to ensure smooth delivery and customer satisfaction.
360° Delivery insights: Turn 360° customer intelligence and insights from the customer’s active portfolio into suggestions for new product enhancements, customer sales opportunities, and operational efficiencies.
Stakeholder Management: Forge strong relationships with customers, internal teams, and partners to drive seamless solution delivery and enhance customer success.
Delivery Operations: Embed mandated governance forums and quality controls as set out by the Delivery Partner team; such as Quarterly Review Boards, Steering Committees, and Go/No‑Go forums, supported by customer performance metrics.
Contract Compliance: Ensure all activities adhere to contractual agreements, scope, and specified deliverables; evaluate, document, and gain agreement to all scope changes with commercial impact.
Delivery practice: Contribute to the Delivery ways of working and processes.

Qualifications & Skills

Proven experience in delivery execution and portfolio management, working directly with customer executives and stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to build consensus while providing vision, direction, and strong leadership in high‑pressure environments.
Exceptional stakeholder management and executive relationship‑building skills.
Proven track record of delivering $5‑15m annual revenue streams.
Extensive transformation and change management experience.
Proven team leadership of virtual global teams, inspiring and motivating teams to customer goals, and mentoring team members where required.
Advanced commercial acumen and P&L management.
Certification such as PMP, Prince2, or similar is preferred.

Compensation

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 $110,000 and $120,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.
Information on benefits offered is available here.

Applications will be accepted through February 22, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.

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.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.

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