Product Manager/senior Product Manager - Oxford, United Kingdom - Pearson

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4 weeks ago

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Senior Product Manager - Primary Literacy and Extended Curriculum

About the team


Our Pearson School Qualifications business supports schools, teachers, learners and their parents throughout their entire school journey, from 5 to 19.

Our vision is to be the partner of choice for every school and every teacher; helping every learner toachieve their full potential.


The Primary Literacy and Extended Curriculum team within Pearson's School Qualifications Product Development division is an exciting and creative team responsible for our flagship Literacy brand Bug Club as well as our publishing for the Humanities, Scienceand Wellbeing.


About the role
We are looking for an experienced Product Manager who is passionate about Primary education, especially Reading. In this role, you will required to have your finger on the pulse of Primary education. You will be in constant contact with teachers and up todate with trends, policy and competitor activity.


A day in the life
On a day in this role, you could be doing any of the following things:

Strategy Planning

  • Planning or attending a strategy session to develop our strategy in a given area.
  • Putting together a business case to sign off a proposed new product or improvements to a current product.

Market knowledge and insight

  • Visiting a school to observe a lesson or conduct research.
  • Organising a focus group or putting together a survey to get insight from teachers.
  • Putting together an analysis of a new competitor offer.

Proposition development and delivery

  • Working with internal and external colleagues to put together a project plan and schedule to deliver a new suite of products.
  • Working with Content Learning Specialists to ensure timely delivery of products and services to budget and quality.
  • Working with technology colleagues to understand technology development required to deliver a proposal and plan it into their roadmap.
  • Working with sales and marketing colleagues on collateral for the sales team or for Marketing material to maximise sales of your product.

Financial planning and management

  • Contribute to the financial planning processes for your products.
  • Be accountable and responsible for project P&Ls, working with internal stakeholders to establish sales forecasts and targets and to deliver according to project budgets.

Who are we looking for?

Someone with the following skills and qualities:

  • Passion for Primary education, especially Reading/Phonics (experience of working in this area would be ideal).
  • Proven print and digital publishing skills and demonstrable experience in delivery of commercially successful propositions to market which meet customer needs.
  • Excellent organisational and project management skills.
  • Creative, innovative and strategicthinking.
  • Commercial and financial planning skills.
  • Communication, relationshipbuilding and influencing skills.

Role location:

The individual assigned can work flexibly as a hybrid worker between their home and our offices based in Oxford or London.


Your Reward & Benefits


We know you'll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business.

We know that one size doesn't fit all, so our workplace programmes meet the different needs of our diverse teams and their families too.

There is a rangeof options, too many to list here, but when you join our Pearson family you can look forward to:


  • A starting holiday of 25 days plus UK public holidays and you'll earn 1 additional day's holiday per year you work with us.
  • Generous pension scheme where we match and double what you contribute.
  • Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible work policies.
  • Stock/share purchase options.
  • Healthcare and dental plans, and an employee wellbeing assistance programme for you and your family to help balance work, family, and personal life.
  • Cycle to work program, gym membership concessions in selected office locations, along with retail and leisure discounts.
Pearson is an equal opportunities employer.

We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience.


We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity.

The information you provide will stay confidential, and be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process.


Job:

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Organization:
Assessment & Qualifications


Schedule:
FULL_TIME


Req ID: 8549
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