Pearson is a leading lifelong learning company that aims to help individuals realize their potential through education. The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring project delivery aligns with business goals, managing project initiation, planning, execution, and facilitating communication among stakeholders. This role requires strong project management skills and experience in process engineering and vendor management.
Establish project goals, requirements, and desired results
Create, manage, and update project schedules and timeline
Define, manage, and update resources
Review requirements and specifications for work
Participate in identifying project resources required
Identify and assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to project team personnel
Manage project execution
Establish schedules and project parameters; develop procedures to accomplish project goals
Identify and manage project risk
Identify and manage project issues
Coordinate the work across multiple projects and/or deliverables with other project staff of Key Business Stakeholders from various functional departments
Provide Status Reports on project deliverables as defined by PMO Governance
Overall project management to include scope definition, risk assessment, budget management, process definition, stakeholder communication
Facilitate team meetings and provide direction when needed
Define new processes as needed and/or gaps in existing processes, with a focus on cost savings, efficiency and automation
Act as focal point for project problem resolution and escalation
Establish conditions for project closure and manage closure
Ensure the quality provided and delivered meets that in the agreed plan
Ensure PMO Governance and project best practices are followed
Prepare project reports for management, clients or others
Facilitate interactive sessions
Deliver presentations as required
Establish and maintain customer relationships appropriately
Negotiate with clients to reach optimal delivery resolution
Manage customer expectations in delivery
Manage vendor relations, as appropriate
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required
2-5 years previous project management experience required
Strong listening, oral and written communications skills required
Leadership and team building skills a must
Problem-solving skills required
Coordination skills a must
Excellent oral and written communication skills required
Self-starter orientation
Ability to deal with change
Strong business acumen
Preferred
Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously preferred
Experience in working with 3rd-party delivery model and structure a plus
Experience in vendor management preferred
Experience with process improvement certifications (CMMI, CBPP) a plus
Business and product process design and implementation preferred
Vendor management process and experience preferred
PMP Certification preferred
Process certification preferred (CMMI, CBPP, ISO 9001)
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Benefits
This position is eligible for Pearson’s annual incentive program.
Pearson operates as a media and education company that offers a wide range of services to its customers.
