Associate Portfolio Manager

Role Overview

• Lead a profitable product line and develop strategic business plans
• Provide product leadership, representing the portfolio and customers across audiences
• Use data to make market-informed business proposals, take mitigated risks, and guide strategic decisions
• Defines long-term goals based on research and trends, and sets metrics-driven milestones, making connections across datasets and courses to devise solutions to complex business challenges
• Balance experience, market knowledge, and insights to make impactful decisions and long-term plans
• Translate priorities into organized end-to-end development plans with budgets, resources, performance goals, and key checkpoints
• Provide project team direction, facilitating effective communication, and ensuring timely delivery of multiple products simultaneously within scope and budget
• Cultivate an environment of creativity and collaboration
• Deliver quality learning experiences to students and instructors
• Establish and maintain relationships with key authors and adoption decision makers to gain customer insights, strengthen adoptions, and identify new talent
• Develop a deep understanding of competitors and an ability to anticipate competitor activity
• Identify and test product ideas within segments, including the administration of focus groups, advisory boards, reviews, and customer meetings as appropriate
• Regularly analyze product and portfolio plans to align forecasting and measurement of progress towards goals
• Partner closely with Marketing and Sales teams to seed and secure adoptions
• Work closely with colleagues in other functional areas (Learning Design, Content Production, Marketing, Sales, Technology, etc.) on discipline-specific initiatives
• Create compelling needs-based discipline, course, and product positioning and customer segments as inputs for campaign and sales enablement efforts
• Make presentations at internal and external meetings, campus visits, and academic conventions in support of sales efforts and to drive sales.

Requirements

• BA or BS Degree
• Minimum 2 years in product management, product development, or other relevant portfolio management role
• Cross-functional team leadership experience
• Ability to inspire change through influence; honed social skills
• Self-discipline with a high degree of accountability
• Strong financial analysis and modeling skills and an understanding of business metrics
• Natural curiosity and willingness to learn paired with a desire for continuous improvement
• Confirmed written and verbal abilities enabling the preparation and presentation of information and recommendations to a diverse and senior level audience
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Expected travel ~10% of time

Benefits

• Participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program
• Comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package