Portfolio Product Manager

Cengage Learning • New York, NY

395d • $88,600 - $141,800

About The Position

The Portfolio Product Manager (PPM) at Cengage Group is responsible for creating product strategy and leading product development within the Healthcare portfolio. This role involves understanding the audience, analyzing market trends, and making informed product design decisions. The PPM collaborates with various teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality learning experiences and articulates product features to the market, driving compelling messaging and measurable campaigns.

Requirements

• Creative and curious problem solving and collaboration
• Understanding of the educational technology and publishing industry
• Ability to clearly articulate vision and strategy and help team members understand how their work impacts business success
• Customer focus; understanding of how customer needs and challenges translate into opportunities
• Demonstration of strong communication skills with keen ability to facilitate team meetings, presentations, focus groups, and interviews
• BA or BS Degree
• Minimum 3 years in product management, product development, sales, marketing, or other relevant management role
• Cross-functional team leadership experience
• Ability to inspire change through influence; honed interpersonal 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
• Proven written and verbal abilities enabling the preparation and presentation of information and recommendations to a diverse and senior level audience
• Expected travel 20% of time
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.).
• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards package
• Competitive base pay with incentive compensation
• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees