Cengage Group
Portfolio Manager
🇺🇸 Hybrid - MA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $95K - $110K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ June 30th, 2025
PowerBI
Edtech.com's Summary
Cengage Group is hiring a Portfolio Manager responsible for defining and executing the growth strategy for a specific academic subject vertical in higher education. The role involves leading cross-functional teams to deliver commercial products, meet release goals, and achieve sales forecasts while partnering with sales and marketing to expand and retain the customer base.
Highlights
- Lead cross-functional teams including Learning Designers, Content Managers, and Marketing to drive product pipeline and portfolio growth.
- Use data-driven insights to inform market strategies, risk management, and investment decisions.
- Manage budgets, resources, and performance goals to meet release objectives and commercial targets.
- Establish and maintain relationships with authors, adoption decision makers, and new talent acquisition.
- Partner with Sales and Marketing to support adoption and retention of products.
- Requires 3-5 years of experience in product management, development, marketing, or sales roles.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PowerBI.
- Strong communication, leadership, and financial analysis skills are essential.
- Bachelor’s degree required; understanding of educational technology and publishing industry preferred.
- Compensation range: $95,000 to $110,000 USD base salary, with additional incentive opportunities.
Portfolio Manager Full Description
Portfolio Manager
Massachusetts, USA
Full time
We believe in the power and joy of learning
At Cengage Group, our employees have a direct impact in helping students around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Our culture values inclusion, engagement, and discovery
Our business is driven by our strong culture, and we know that creating an inclusive workplace is absolutely essential to the success of our company and our learners, as well as our individual well-being. We recognize the value of diverse perspectives in everything we do, and strive to ensure employees of all levels and backgrounds feel empowered to voice their ideas and bring their authentic selves to work. We achieve these priorities through programs, benefits, and initiatives that are integrated into the fabric of how we work every day. To learn more, please see https://www.cengagegroup.com/about/inclusion-and-belonging/.
What You’ll Do Here:
The Portfolio Manager is responsible for defining and achieving the growth strategy for a specific academic subject area vertical in the higher education market. As the successful candidate, you will lead a cross-functional team including Learning Designers, Content Managers, and Marketing Partners to deliver on your strategic pipeline, including content revisions, digital online learning experiences, and new entries into your respective markets. You will be accountable for delivering commercially successful products, meeting release goals within budget and achieving annual sales forecasts. You will partner with sales and marketing to retain existing and acquire new customers by demonstrating the value proposition of your portfolio solutions.
- Use data to make market-informed business proposals, take mitigated risks, and inform strategic decisions.
- Translate strategy into structured end-to-end development plans; define and lead all aspects of budgets, resources, performance goals, and key achievements.
- Regularly analyze product and portfolio plans to align forecasting and measurement of progress towards goals; deliver cases for strategic investment.
- Achieve plans successfully by meeting release objectives and goals.
- Demonstrate strong communication skills with keen ability to facilitate team meetings, focus groups, interviews, presentations, and trainings.
- Fully understand and track all market and industry activity that affects assigned portfolio, including any new market launches and competitor movement.
- Define, identify, size and prioritize market segments associated with the assigned portfolio.
- Establish and maintain relationships with authors and adoption decision makers to gain customer insights, strengthen customer relationships, and identify/recruit new author talent.
- Partner closely with Marketing and Sales teams to seed and secure adoptions.
- Create compelling needs-based discipline, course, and product positioning.
- Make presentations at company meetings, customer visits, and academic conferences in support of sales growth.
Skills you will need here:
- BA or BS degree in a related field
- Minimum 3-5 years in product management, product development, marketing, sales or other relevant business role
- Creative and curious problem-solver and collaborator
- Understanding of the educational technology and publishing industry.
- Excellent at articulating vision and strategy
- Strong communication skills with demonstrable ability to facilitate meetings, presentations, focus groups, and customer interviews
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through influence and inspiration
- Strong financial analysis and modeling skills
- Experience using standard research methods and user testing models
- Ability to self-manage personal progress against achievements and results with a high degree of accountability
- Understands how customer needs and challenges translate into opportunities.
- Passion for improving education and delivering high quality learning experiences
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI
- Expected travel ~20%
Cengage Group is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. Our job applicants are considered regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, veteran status, and any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.
Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.ta@cengage.com or at +1 (617) 289-7917.
About Cengage Group
Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Compensation
At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.
The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.$95,000.00 - $110,000.00 USD
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